Business Studies

Introduction

As a Business and enterprise school, this subject has an important role to play, not only in the business related curriculum, but also in the wider life of the school. Our students, both past and present, have not only achieved excellent exam results, but have also gained a great deal from such activities as Young Enterprise, Year 9 Co-Op Challenge, forming their own mini-enterprises, Year 12 Accounting day, to name but a few!

Facilities

Most of the Business Studies teaching is based around three rooms, all of which have excellent IT facilities, including numerous PC’s, which have internet access. Also in all of these rooms are electronic white boards, which can be used to enhance the learning environment.

Curriculum

In Year 7 all students have a discrete one hour lesson. This gives the students a taster of the fundamental areas such as Business Ownership, Marketing Mix, Break-even analysis etc. The high light being a research task based a trip to Cadbury World!

In Year 10 the students begin studying for their GCSE Business Studies. The subject is compulsory, but the students can choose between the full (One GCSE) and short-course (Half a GCSE).

In the sixth form there is a wide variety of Business Studies courses to choose from. For students that are particularly self-motivated, well organised and enjoy research tasks there is the A-Level Applied Business Studies courses. There are two of these, single award, which is one A-level, and the double award, which is two A-levels. The majority of units for these are assessed through coursework.

There is also a traditional A-level Business Studies which is predominately exam based and for those students who enjoy a more teacher led approach.

As part of the Business Studies Department we also run lunchtime classes in AS Accounting and an Economic Awareness club.

General

The department has achieved excellent exam results. When compared with the other Lincolnshire grammar schools our GCSE results in 2005 were on average a grade higher. In 1996 all our long course students gained B or above at GCSE with over 70% of grades at A/A*. Also this year for our traditional A-level we gained 100% A-grades and for the Applied A-level we achieved 95% A/B grades.

Staff