Bristnall Hall Academy, Bristnall Hall Lane
Oldbury, West Midlands B68 9PA
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Bristnall Hall Academy, Bristnall Hall Lane, Oldbury, West Midlands, B68 9PA
Subject Leader: Hayley Marston
Spiritual: education in Business at BHA encourages students to explore topics such as discrimination act which enable students to express their own opinion. Students are encouraged to explore different businesses and challenge the actions that businesses take
Social: education in Business at BHA gives students the opportunities to develop their team working skills through collaboration work and research. The students also explore the concept of teams and roles that individuals have to play and how this can impact a business. Throughout the curriculum students are given the opportunity to exercise their leadership skills. Students often work collaboratively to understand new concepts and share information researched.
Moral: development in Business at BHA requires students to draw conclusions using observations, evidence and case studies to support this. Students explore the issues surrounding misuse of information in order to make a justified judgment
Cultural: education in Business at BHA involves trading internationally and the barriers to this. Students are also actively encouraged to go on visits to explore local businesses and also larger multinational businesses such as Cadbury. Students also investigate the changes within society on both and local and national level
BHA Skills and Attributes Development
The following are skills within business contexts you would expect a student to develop during the course:
More Able Students:
This GCSE specification requires more able students to:
Key Stage 4
Y10
Cambridge Nationals – Business
Pupils studying Business and Enterprise will develop and extend their understanding in the following areas:
Introduction to business – Learners will be taught different forms of business ownership and consider which of these forms of ownership are appropriate for different forms of business. They will be introduced to the concept of business objectives and understand how, and why, they are important to a business, and indeed why they may change over time.
Assessment – External Examination. Written paper 1 hour. 25% of overall grade
Planning for work – They will learn why it is important for businesses to recruit the right staff with the right skills in order to produce goods/services to meet customer requirements. They will also learn about the recruitment process, including finding out about job descriptions, personal specifications and how these are used by businesses to recruit employees. Learners will gain knowledge of how businesses use these tools, and then go on to use this knowledge as applicants. They will learn techniques for self-assessment, how to identify employment areas of interest to them and how to match job role requirements to their own self-assessment. They will learn how to apply for a job and how to produce a career plan. Learners will be able to use this work as a basis to plan for future employment opportunities
Assessment – Controlled Assessment. 25% of overall grade
Setting up and running an enterprise – Learners will look at what an enterprise activity is and factors which make one viable. They will be able to identify any constraints which may affect the success of an enterprise and consider how to overcome these. Learners will be encouraged to generate their own innovative ideas for an enterprise activity, which if deemed viable, will form the basis of the rest of this unit
Assessment – Controlled Assessment. 50% of overall grade
Additional Reading – Read a broadsheet newspaper at once a week
How parents can support: parents should Ensure that your child is completing all homework set each week and is accessing online business resources which will reinforced the learning taking place in lessons. Access to good quality newspapers will also give them the opportunity to see their learning in real life scenarios. Also watching the national/international news frequently will also allow them to strengthen their business understanding and will help when answering questions in the examination.
Y11
Unit 1 – Introduction to a Small Business
Content overview
This unit concentrates on the key issues and skills involved in enterprise. It provides a framework to consider the marketing, financial, human and operational issues involved in starting and running a small business.
This unit contains five topic areas.
Topic 1.1 Spotting a business opportunity
Topic 1.2 Showing enterprise
Topic 1.3 Putting a business idea into practice
Topic 1.4 Making the start-up effective
Topic 1.5 Understanding the economic context
Assessment overview
This unit will be externally assessed.
Unit 2 – Investigating small Business
Content overview
Unit 2 contains the content of Unit 1: Introduction to Small Business. In this unit, students will use the content to research, analyse and evaluate a selected task on enterprise issues.
Assessment overview
This unit will be internally assessed.
Unit 4 – Business Communication
Content overview
This unit looks at the purpose and process of communication. It then considers how and why businesses communicate with their various stakeholders, the appropriateness of the different methods of business communication and the variety of communication tools.
This unit consists of four topic areas.
Topic 4.1 Communication
Topic 4.2 Communication with stakeholders of a business
Topic 4.3 Business communication tools
Topic 4.4 Communication via the web
Assessment overview
This unit will be externally assessed.
Additional Reading: Read a broadsheet newspaper at once a week
How parents can support: parents should Ensure that your child is completing all homework set each week and is accessing online business resources which will reinforced the learning taking place in lessons. Access to good quality newspapers will also give them the opportunity to see their learning in real life scenarios. Also watching the national/international news frequently will also allow them to strengthen their business understanding and will help when answering questions in the examination.