Year 9
After selecting Business as an option, students have learnt about how businesses are owned, why
individuals set up their own companies, product life cycle and how many businesses choose to operate in
an ethical manner. Students have just completed a paired presentation where they studied an individual
company they have an interest in and related their classroom learning to a real company. Students will now
be introduced to the finance concepts next.
Year 10 BTEC
Year 10 are learning the finance component of their course. They are required to understand Profit & Loss
Accounts, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow Forecast, Break Even Analysis, Sources of Finance and business
costs. The students will be required to revise over the Christmas holiday in order to undertake their online
exam in the middle of January.
Year 11 BTEC
Year 11 have begun their final unit of coursework which centres around the students setting up their own
business. The students have analysed social, national, economic and technology trends as well as looking
at the individual characteristics of Rugby in order to develop their business ideas. Students have decided
to set up smoothie bars, sports shops, chocolate shops,
furniture and even a removal company.
Students will be
working through their ideas before finally branding their
company.
Year 11 GCSE
The group are now completing the last of their controlled
assessment on Cadbury. This will complete all of their work on
the now American owned company. After Christmas, students will
be visiting La Casa Loco Mexican restaurant for the last of their
controlled assessment work. Recently students undertook the
second mock exam for the course and I am pleased to
report that most of the students saw an improved result.
Media & Film
It has been a very interesting term for students in Media & Film. Year 11 students are working very well, with
most students already completing controlled assessment tasks to a very high standard whilst also performing
well in their mock examinations at the end of November. We could potentially see some very good results in
the summer.
Year 10 students have been the unfortunate group that have had to get to grips with the new GCSE
specification that focusses more on textual analysis, rather than the practical elements of Media. The
analytical skills that are needed to succeed in the 2019 exams are beginning to develop and it has been very
interesting studying sitcom for component 2 of the course.
Year 9 have been great all term. Both the GCSE and BTEC groups have been studying ‘Media
Organisations’ and ‘Audiences’ before focussing on how organisations generate audience appeal when
advertising and marketing various products.