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At our school, the study of GCSE Business is designed to open minds, raise expectations, and transform lives. Business education helps students to understand how the world around them operates, analyse real-life enterprises, and make informed decisions about their own futures.
Our Business curriculum inspires curiosity about how businesses function in local, national, and global contexts. It enables students to apply their knowledge to real-world case studies and scenarios, developing a deeper understanding of how business theory connects with practice.
Students are encouraged to think critically, solve problems, and make decisions that extend beyond the classroom. We ensure that all learners, regardless of background, have the opportunity to access and succeed in GCSE Business, with the right balance of support and challenge to help them thrive.
Our curriculum also promotes ambition by showing students the wide range of exciting careers and entrepreneurial opportunities that business knowledge can open up. By the end of the course, students will have developed valuable transferable skills such as analysis, evaluation, financial literacy, and effective communication, preparing them for further study and future employment.
Through the study of business, we encourage our students to become inclusive, supportive, ambitious, and evolving learners who are ready to engage confidently with an ever-changing economic landscape.
KS4
Year 10 focuses on theme 1 in which students study the key business concepts, issues and skills involved in starting and running a small business. It provides a framework for students to explore core concepts through the lens of an entrepreneur setting up a business.In this theme, students will be introduced to local and national business contexts and will develop an understanding of how these contexts impact business behaviour and decisions.Local contexts refer specifically to small businesses or those operating in a single UK location and national contexts relate to businesses operating in more than one location or across the UK. Students must develop an understanding of the interdependent nature of business activity through interactions between business operations, finance, marketing and human resources, as well as the relationship between the business and the environment in which it operates. Students must understand how these interdependencies and relationships underpin business decisions.
Year 11 focuses on theme 2 in which students will examine how a business develops beyond the start-up phase.This theme focuses on the key business concepts, issues and decisions used to grow a business, with emphasis on aspects of marketing, operations, finance and human resources. Theme 2 also considers the impact of the wider world on the decisions a business makes as it grows. In this theme, students will be introduced to national and global business contexts and will develop an understanding of how these contexts impact business behaviour and decisions. National contexts build on those in Theme 1 and relate to businesses operating in more than one location or across the UK. Global contexts relate to non-UK or transnational businesses. Students must develop an understanding of the interdependent nature of business activity through interactions between business operations, finance, marketing and human resources, as well as the relationship between the business and the environment in which it operates. Students must understand how these functional areas influence business activity and how interdependencies and relationships between them underpin business decisions.
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Edexcel
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| Y10 Business KS4 CURRICULUM MAP 2025 |
| Y11 Business KS4 CURRICULUM MAP 2025 |
