Business and Enterprise

Business aims to help students to demonstrate dignity and respect as they explore the workings of the business world and how they are influenced by, as well as affect, the wider society. This means engaging in respectful conversation and debate surrounding key business concepts and their relevance in today’s global society. We seek to develop pupils’ respect for the skills but also the social responsibilities in conducting effective business. Through respectful conversation, and exchange of ideas we aim to enable pupils to develop their own ideas for responsible business practices.

Business aims to help pupils develop the understanding that successful business consists of many complex decisions which can have positive and negative effects on a range of different people. We aim to help pupils gain the wisdom to understand these considerations when they make responsible business decisions.
We aim to enable students to develop a wide spectrum of knowledge in all business areas through an understanding of key concepts and models across a range of functional business areas. Students will gain fluency in this knowledge to be able to apply it to a range of business scenarios.
Business allows pupils to gain proficiency in a wide range of essential business skills and techniques allowing them to feel confident that their contributions are accurate and robust. Students will learn both the hard skills of fundamental financial and management whilst also developing their soft skills such as respectful negotiation and articulating their ideas with clarity.

Students will develop a wide range of business management skills to enable them to identify the challenges a business faces. In this way we encourage pupils to develop the resilience and hope required to overcome these challenges and grow a successful business.
Through delivery of the curriculum students will be exposed to a range of functional areas of business and in and in doing so introduce the career opportunities associated with them. Using extra-curricular enrichment activities pupils will gain an understanding of a range of roles and the pathways to obtaining them.