BUSINESS STUDIES
Year 10
Students have now completed the first two activities
of their controlled assessment part of the course,
on the Cadbury’s section of the Mondelez
International Organisation. Activity 1 focused on
aims
and
objectives,
company
products,
competition and working in an ethical manner.
Activity 2 focused on how companies require
numerous departments to operate successfully,
how these departments communicate and how
Cadbury communicate with others outside of the
business.
Year 10 students are now working in preparation
for the pre-public examination in the summer term.
Students are learning about Unit 2: Financial
Records. Within this unit students will study;
FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS
PAYMENT METHODS / SOURCES OF
FINANCE
COSTS (START UP AND RUNNING
COSTS)
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNTS
COMPUTERISED ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS
PROFITABILITY RATIOS
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
BALANCE SHEET
LIQUIDITY RATIOS
There will
be a
one
hour
long
mock exam in
the summer
term and students
will
have
extensive revision notes that they need to print off
to revise from.
Year 11
I have really enjoyed working with the three
Business classes in Year 11. All the marks for the
students Unit 1 controlled assessment work are
now in and have been submitted to the exam
board. The 51 students who are entered for the
Unit 2 exam should now be fully committed to their
revision and preparation. Analysis of past papers
has found that students must focus on applying
their knowledge to the big 10 mark question at the
end of the exam paper. Students have been
performing very well on past papers and have all
been given individual target grades for the exam in
order to achieve their potential.
Year 9 & Year 8
Business has once again proved to have been a
very popular option with three groups select ing the
subject in each year group.
ICT
The
new
programme of study
for the Computing
National Curriculum
continues to excite
and challenge our
students. Our Year 7 students are currently working
with Kodu, a free software available to download
from the internet. This application gives the
students an opportunity to learn to program objects
within a visual programming environment made
specifically for creating games. It is designed to be
accessible and enjoyable for anyone. So far our
Year 7 students are really enjoying this project.
The Year 8 and 9 students have been working on a
multimedia project, which involves using the Adobe
Fireworks graphics package to create an animation.
This project is developing skills which allow the
students to manipulate sound and create and edit
video files. Again we are really pleased that the
students are enjoying this project and learning to
develop some valuable skills for the future.
Year 10 students are working really hard and some
have actually finished their coursework. This
creates a fantastic opportunity to go back and make
improvements as the controlled assessment counts
for 60% of the total assessment in ICT.
Finally, Year 11 students are at the end of their
time at AVS. It has been a pleasure to teach you:
Well done for all you all! You’ve worked really hard
and completed your controlled assessment on time
and to a very high standard and we sent off the
course work samples 2 weeks ahead of schedule!
Well done for making this an enjoyable experience
with all the amazing work you did. We would like to
wish you the best for your upcoming exams and
good luck for the future!