Curriculum Overview

 

Key Stage 3 Key Stage 4 Sixth Form

Term 5: Revision

Students create revision resources, complete revision activities and complete practice questions in order to revise and prepare for the upcoming final exams.

The aim is that pupils create resources that can be used to help them prepare for the final assessments. They will also focus on exam technique through discussion of question and answer styles, as well as focused exam questions.

Final GCSE exams

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students have to prepare for the upcoming final exams, this unit aims to give them as much practice time as possible.

Create a supportive community:
Students have to discuss and revisit previous knowledge in order to prepare for and answer practice questions.

Term 1: Making Marketing Decisions

Students will study the four P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) of the marketing mix. They will then study how a growing business makes decisions about the marketing mix.

Students will sit an end of unit assessment using exam style questions that consists of multiple choice questions and a 6 mark question in relation to the unit content.

Pupils will also complete a practical project where they have the opportunity to put the unit content into practice.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students consider how a growing business makes decisions about the marketing mix.

Create a supportive community:
Students have to discuss and revisit previous knowledge in order build on this and consider implications for growth.

Term 2: Making Operational Decisions

This unit will focus on the logistics of managing a growing business. This ranges from technology to the management of stock and how a business ensures the quality of its products.

Students will sit an end of unit assessment using exam style questions that consists of multiple choice questions and a 6 mark question in relation to the unit content.

Pupils will also complete a practical project where they have the opportunity to put the unit content into practice.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students consider the management of stock and how a business ensures the quality of its products, particularly in respect to its reputation.

Create a supportive community:
Students have to discuss and revisit previous knowledge in order build on this and consider implications for growth.

Term 3: Making Financial Decisions

Students will learn about the financial calculations a business undertakes to analyse their profit and loss. They will go onto to learn how a business will use financial information to gauge performance and strategies from this. There will also be a focus on covering topics highlighted from the November Mock exam and QLA.

Students will sit an end of unit assessment using exam style questions that consists of multiple choice questions and a 6 mark question in relation to the unit content.

Pupils will also complete a practical project where they have the opportunity to put the unit content into practice.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students gain further practice of financial calculations and use this financial information to discuss performance and potential strategies.

Create a supportive community:
Students have to discuss and revisit previous knowledge in order build on this and consider implications for growth.

Term 4: Making Human Resource Decisions

Students will learn about how staff are managed and the organisation of a growing business. They will also study how a growing business recruits, trains and retains staff as well as motivation theory. In the case of unites being completed in less than a term, revision for March Mock will be done during term 4.

Students will sit an end of unit assessment using exam style questions that consists of multiple choice questions and a 6 mark question in relation to the unit content.

Pupils will also complete a practical project where they have the opportunity to put the unit content into practice.

  • Spiritual
  • Moral
  • Social
  • Cultural

Develop the individual:
Students consider management of staff and the organisation structures available to a growing business

Create a supportive community:
Students have to discuss and revisit previous knowledge in order build on this and consider implications for growth.