Ryton Parents – Year
9 Options – Business Studies
Business Studies ensures
that candidates have knowledge, understanding and where possible, experience of
the real world of business organisations.
The course is broken
down into 3 units of study:
Topics in those units
include:
a)
Starting
a Business
b)
Marketing
c)
Finance
d)
People
in Businesses
e)
Operations
Management
f)
The
Business Organisation
Teaching and Learning
Techniques
Business Studies use a
wide variety of teaching and learning techniques with the aim to make the
subject as real as possible. These
include an educational visit to a business location to carry out research which
will act as a practice for the controlled assessment and visits by guest
speakers from the world of work.
Pupils will develop
analytical and evaluation skills through projects and class work. We encourage pupils to talk about our subject
at home and find out real examples of theory.
Information Technology
is an important tool within Business Studies and we aim to use this effectively
for work and research. We intend that
our learning strategies will show a fair balance between active learning and
theory.
Independent Learning
We fully support
students being responsible for their own learning and with business studies we
feel that there is a need for some of this to take place outside the class room
with regards to students discussing the subject at home, watching the news and
other relevant TV programmes such as Dragons’ Den. To help with this and allow parents to see
what their child is studying we have our scheme of work available online
therefore reference material is accessible from home and should your child miss
a lesson they are able to find out what they have missed and complete it prior
to the following lesson.
Assessment
Classwork is assessed by peers, themselves
and teachers depending on the content.
In addition to the
regular classwork assessment, students will need to complete
three forms of external assessment as shown below:
Unit 1 written paper
worth 40% of GCSE
Unit 2 written paper
worth 35% of GCSE
Unit 3 controlled
assessment involving supported research time worth 25% of GCSE
Contact: Mr J. Edgoose or Miss N. Hardy.