"Through an ambitious and inclusive Business curriculum, students are resilient enough to flourish in a dynamic and fast paced diverse work environment."
Business is a popular GCSE subject at Lightcliffe Academy and as a department we are passionate about enhancing and enriching students’ skillsets and understanding of different working environments. With our curriculum we are also determined in improving students’ aspirational career choices and destinations.
Business Studies is an examination of the business world. If you choose to study this, you will look at real businesses and see how they operate. You will learn what it takes to be an entrepreneur, how to set up a business and make it a success. Students apply their knowledge and understanding to different business contexts ranging from small enterprises to large multinationals and businesses operating in local, national and global contexts. During this course you will study the following topics:
Students will develop oracy skills through taking part in debates, presentations, role playing and active listening throughout a range of real-life business scenarios. This will actively develop their physical, linguistic, cognitive and social and emotional grasp of oracy. Pupils will read case studies for information and read for instruction to apply learning to work-place and business sector scenarios.
Service: Students will present a business idea and will complete a feedback sheet giving each other suggestions on how to improve their business.
Health and Happiness: Students will visit Cadburys World to see how different businesses operate.
Ambition: Throughout the course students will be exposed to range of different careers they could go into.
Resilience: Using cases studies, newspaper articles and different texts about businesses, analyse and evaluate businesses performance.
Equity: Studying a range of diverse businesses and entrepreneurs.
Dignity: Looking at business ethics, consider ethical considerations a business may face and how they overcome them.
We offer two options:
Paper 1: Investing small business
Paper 2: Building a business
Both worth 90 marks each and both papers are sat at the end of year 11
Component 1: Exploring enterprise- coursework completed in Feb Year 10
Component 2: Planning and presenting a micro enterprise idea- coursework
complete in Oct Year 11
Component 3: Marketing and finance for enterprise- exam at the end of year 11
If you are contemplating a career in accountancy; banking; local or central government; law; journalism or something similar, then you will find the economics element of this course useful.
If you can see yourself setting up your own business one day, then having knowledge of how businesses work, marketing and finance coupled with a basic knowledge of how the economy works is invaluable.
You could choose to continue your study of Business at A Level and Applied A Level or Economics at A Level. You could use your knowledge of how businesses work to support your studies in other subjects at GCSE and Post-16.
