Business and Economics
Business and Economics Curriculum Vision
Business is front-page news. The way companies and governments operate is under greater scrutiny than ever before, while TV programmes like Dragon’s Den and The Apprentice have raised the profile of business to a new generation.
Economics examines all aspects of microeconomic and macroeconomic issues which have become increasingly high profile in recent years.
Using different materials and teaching styles we hope to enable students to engage with, explore and understand business and economic behaviour and develop a critical understanding of what business and economies do.
KS4 GCSE Business Curriculum
Year 9 Business Curriculum Outline
Year 10 Business Curriculum Outline
Year 11 Business Curriculum Outline
Exam board: Edexcel
In KS4 GCSE Business, our students study the following topics:
Year 9: GCSE Skills Preparation
In Year 9 students develop the skills used in the GCSE through four different business case studies using examples from the protected characteristics.
Year 10: Theme 1 – Investigating Small Business
- Enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Spotting a business opportunity
- Putting a business idea into practice
- Making the business effective
- Understanding external influences on business
Year 11: Theme 2 – Building a Business
- Growing the business
- Making marketing decisions
- Making operational decisions
- Making financial decisions
- Making human resource decisions
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KS5 A Level Business Curriculum
Year 12 Business Curriculum Outline
Year 13 Business Curriculum Outline
Exam board: AQA
In KS5 A Level Business, our students study the following topics:
- What is business?
- Managers, leadership and decision making
- Decision making to improve marketing performance
- Decision making to improve operational performance
- Decision making to improve financial performance
- Decision making to improve human resource performance
- Analysing the strategic position of a business
- Choosing strategic direction
- Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies
- Managing strategic change
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KS5 A Level Economics Curriculum
Year 12 Economics Curriculum Outline
Year 13 Economics Curriculum Outline
Exam board: AQA
In KS5 A Level Economics, our students study the following topics:
Individuals, firms, markets and market failure
1. Economic methodology and the economic problem
2. Individual economic decision making
3. Price determination in a competitive market
4. Production, costs and revenue
5. Perfect competition, imperfectly competitive markets and monopoly
6. The labour market
7. The distribution of income and wealth: poverty and inequality
8. The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in
markets
The national and international economy
9. The measure of macroeconomic performance
10.How the macroeconomy works: the circular flow of income, AD/AS
analysis and related concepts
11.Economic performance
12.Financial markets and monetary policy
13.Fiscal policy and supply-side policies
14.The international economy
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