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Business Enterprise is our focus Year 14
in Key Stage 3; developing stu-
The Applied business class have
dents understanding of how the
created their own business this
business world operates. This
year we have been busy putting year, My Leavers was tasked
theory into practice. with the design and production
Year 10 of the school leavers hoody.
Key Stage 5 This was a challenging situation
Year 10 have being learning the
basic concepts of business. Stu- The sixth form Business Studies for them and enabled the stu-
dents have been designing and students have been busy estab- dents to put many of the skills
marketing a new shoe - we lishing and running their own that they had compiled over the
have some budding Jimmy enterprises. They have been
last two years into action. The
Choo’s! perfecting their business skills
range of skills involved allowed
and taking calculated risks,
while improving their organisa- all pupils to be included in the
tion, communication and time- design, creation and ordering of
keeping. the hoody. Negotiating the
Year 13 many obstacles that presented
themselves. The focus of the
Year 13 this year explored the
communication and customer CTEC class this year has been
service examples of a local busi- the planning and organising of
ness. Pupils carried out exten- the Post-16 Information even-
sive research of this award win-
ing, this was an excellent oppor-
ning resort and have compiled a
tunity for them to put into prac-
very detailed piece of course-
work exploring, different meth- tice all of the business skills
They have been given the op-
ods of communication that the they have been learning about.
portunity to explore the pro-
business may use, even design- The pupils had to organise, co-
cesses of research, design and
ing communication pieces for
planning an effective marketing ordinate and deliver a whole
the Hotel.
campaign. school event for the success of
Putting Business into Practice
GCSE Students the future sixth form, they were
This year we have linked with able to deliver an excellent af-
GCSE students have been focus-
eye4education to continue our ternoon and fully supported the
ing on the skills required to be a
Year 13 mini-enterprise My Cus-
successful entrepreneur, with a staff involved.
tom Box who set up and run an
enjoyable talk from Derek
actual business. This has been
Montgomery of Flossy Treats, a
established as a limited partner-
local sweet business who is well
ship with 10 Year 13 students
known at trade fairs. They were
developing their own business
able to use these findings to
concept. They have designed
help them with their Controlled
custom made boxes full of retro
Assessment as they helped plan
sweets to meet the needs of
the business operations of a
their customers.
new camping and caravanning
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