Curricula – Computing and Business

Vision

The curriculum is designed to allow students to have access to an engaging Business curriculum taught in an innovative way, through real world and enterprising contexts to enable students to achieve their full potential. Students will gain real life skills for life through the teaching of the specification learning independently promoting resilience and literacy skills throughout their teaching.

Year 10 Curriculum Intent

Sequence topics so that the students get the foundations which are required to progress throughout the qualification.  To keep students engaged at key parts of the year to ensure steady progress

Year 10 Topics

• Business Ownership
• Aims & Objectives
• The Marketing Mix
• Making Human Resource Decisions
• Market Research
• Making Operational Decisions

Year 11 Curriculum Intent

Students are to study more difficult concepts nearer to the terminal examination period to improve chances of retaining information.  Students learn more difficult concepts in year 11 as they have the building blocks of knowledge from year 10 to add to their schemer.  Exam technique is taught in year 11 as this is vital to students performance

Year 11 Topics

• Putting a Business Idea into Practice (e.g. numeracy skills)
• Growing the Business
• Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
• External Influences – Legislation
• Revision and Exam Technique