Business Studies

Curriculum Details

KS4

Business / ICT

Content

Year 10

Homework

Parent / Carer Support

As a faculty we encourage parents/carers to support learning in a number of ways of organisation. Encourage your child to check that they have all the equipment they need in their school bag the night before. Look at completed work. Encourage your child to plan their work.Help your child to solve problems from independent research.Show an interest in the work your child is completing and talk to them about it.Revision. Encourage active revision using past papers and mark schemes (these will be provided), design posters of key information and talk through ideas that your child finds difficult

(All modules) Fortnightly exam questions through out the course. These will be diagnostically assessed and individual student feedback given. At key points your child will complete end of topic assessments.

Business in the real world.

Unit 1

Unit 2

Human Resources.

Unit 3

Influences on business.

Study Guides & Resources

Extra Support

AQA GCSE Business Studies revision guide & work book approx. £6. Past papers and schemes of work. Websites: BBC GCSE bitesize for business.

Websites: BBC GCSE bitesize for business; BBC News; Sky News; The Apprentice; Dragons Den Ad hoc support and help by arrangement with your teacher, often in pairs or small groups.

Content

Year 11

Homework

Parent / Carer Support

Unit 2

Operations management, marketing, finance revision.

Showmyhomework is set to improve students understanding and examination technique. All students will be set a fortnightly exam question for homework and a summative assessment will take place approximately every six weeks.

Encourage wider reading at home of topical business issues and in particular newspaper articles.Discuss with them their opinion on what they've read, in order to help them to develop their understanding.

Unit 2

Study Guides & Resources

AQA GCSE Business Studies revision guide & work book. Past papers and schemes of work. Websites: BBC GCSE bitesize for business.

Extra Support

BBC News; Sky News; The Apprentice etc. Ad hoc support and help by arrangement with your teacher, often in pairs or small groups.