See Year 11s Business ‘Schedule of Learning’ for the 2025/26 academic year:
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Building a Business | 2.2.2 Price |
| Building a Business | 2.2.3 Promotion |
| Building a Business | 2.2.4 Place |
| Building a Business | 2.2.5 Using the marketing mix to make business decisions |
| Building a Business | 2.3.1 Business operations |
| Building a Business | 2.3.2 Working with suppliers |
| Building a Business | 2.3.3 Managing Quality |
| Building a Business | 2.3.4 The sales Process |
| Building a Business | 2.4.1 Business Calculations |
| Building a Business | 2.4.2 Understanding Business Performance |
| Building a Business | 2.5.1 Organisational structure |
| Building a Business | 2.5.2 Effective recruitment |
| Building a Business | 2.5.3 Effective training and development |
| Building a Business | 2.5.4 Motivation |
Exam Board – Edexcel
What will you study?
Theme 2: Building a business
Topic 2.3 Making operational decisions
Topic 2.4 Making financial decisions
Theme 2: Building a business
Topic 2.5 Making human resource decisions; Revision for paper 1 and 2
Revision paper 1 and 2, exam technique
Useful tips and resources
School provided workbook for all content
• Anyone can do it – Duncan Bannatyne
• The Rise And Fall Of Marks & Spencer: ..and How It Rose Again – Judi Bevan
• What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography by Alan Sugar
• Management in ten words by Terry Leahy
• Teams – past papers, knowledge organisers and independent workbooks have been uploaded
• BBC Bitesize edexcel section
• Tutor 2 U – for revision resources and quizzes
• Two teachers – lots of free videos on their youtube channel
Tutor2U Big Quiz to test your knowledge
• Quiz 1
• Quiz 2
• Quiz 3
What super curricular activities can KS3 students engage with at school?
Economics and Business society – discussing current themes in the financial, business and economics worlds. Autumn Term.
Read:
• The New One Minute Manager – Blanchard & Johnson – Audio Book FREE
• Anyone can do it – Duncan Bannatyne
Watch:
• Inside Cadbury chocolate secrets unwrapped
• Tricky Business – (4OD)
• Wake Up and Change Your Life by Duncan Bannatyne
Visit:
Museum of Brands, London
Browse:
Financial times – for news
BBC Business news
