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Our vision as a department is to empower students to become articulate, knowledgeable, skilled and inquisitive learners.
Our vision as a department is to empower students to become articulate, knowledgeable, skilled and inquisitive learners.
Business is a topic that has many links to the student's lives, both now and in the future. This can be seen through topics covering the economic climate, interest rate changes, international trade, and customer service and marketing campaigns. Through allowing students to learn Business at KS4, The Royal liberty hopes to empower students to be more aware of the business world and changes that are occurring around them which may impact their lives as adults in the future.
Business is a topic that has many links to the student's lives, both now and in the future. This can be seen through topics covering the economic climate, interest rate changes, international trade, and customer service and marketing campaigns. Through allowing students to learn Business at KS4, The Royal liberty hopes to empower students to be more aware of the business world and changes that are occurring around them which may impact their lives as adults in the future.
Key Stage Four
Key Stage Four
We aim to:
Equip students with the appropriate knowledge and skills needed to develop their employability and obtain their aspirational academic targets.
Enable students to think analytically, reach logical conclusions based on data and theory, and make judgments.
Offer external enrichment through offering trips within the UK/abroad and guest speaker events hosted in school and via online platforms.
Promote topical discussion and encourage students to develop an inquiring mind. Further, introduces students to a wide variety of viewpoints and encourages them to make links between their studies and real-life examples.
SOW Topics:
Theme 1 - Students discover entrepreneurial aspects of small businesses. Learners investigate enterprise and entrepreneurship, how to spot business opportunities, and how to put business ideas together. They also explore the effectiveness and feasibility of their business ideas and the impact of external influences on a business
Theme 2 - Students focus on how to build and grow a business linked to globalisation. Students unearth how businesses make marketing, product, operational, financial, and human resource decision
Exam Skills:
Knowledge retrieval for theory-based questions - MCQ, State, List, Explain & Discuss
Analytical application & interleaving of theory linked to a business case study - Outline, Analyse, Justify, Evaluate
Calculation skills for business success/failure assessment/judgment - 1.3, 1.5 & 2.4
Key skills - listening, written and verbal communication, presentation, collaboration, tolerance, respect, resilience, problem-solving, logical reasoning, independence and confidence.
Students will complete:
Lessons: Theory, Creative & Exam technique
Regular class and homework questions
Targeted case study questions
Mock & End of unit assessment tests
Self-assessment & exam answer improvements
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