Found this engaged a Year 10 Applied GCSE Business Studies class into the topic of stakeholders and the varying interest and influence on the program as a business. However can be adapted for Post 16 use. The activity can be differentiated through adding or removing stakeholders or even adding to the complexity of stakeholders.

Developed this Kineasthetic starter for Yr 10 Applied GCSE Business Studies as an introduction to functional areas and organisational structure. There is also an element of problem solving as pupils must work out which area applies to them before starting the kineasthetic part. Activity 1 has functional areas & functional area descriptions. Activity 2 can be used for the 2nd half of the class with functional areas é job descriptions. Activity 3 has all the class problem solving before moving around.

useful knowledge, application and evaluation 60 min test Useful for mid course assessment or revision

All the concepts for the Year 2 of AQA business spec blank so definitions can be filled in… Then a box for contexts to help students with contexualised analysis. Students to fill in in which situations / cases very important or useful vs less so. Simple design but fully editable

Full Paper 1 style case for the new AQA Business specification Originally created for an internal mock from scratch Useful for revision / exam prep

Group of multiple choice q’s useful for revision…

snipped off exam boards - might be useful for revision

Designed in 2018 for my year 12 business A level class Full lesson on the measures of HR performance - Labour turnover and Employee Retention starts off labour turnover with a Data for bell work/starter then does into discussion of why does it matter before looking at some data of different industries/sectors then eval q to develop higher order skills and depends on then moves onto employee retention with some data to analyse before comparing sectors/industries then a decision making activity and reading to support.

Management Style: Tannenbaum and Schmidt lesson: planned for Year 1 AQA business spec Scenario opener - asking students to come up with how they would make decisions in 6 x scenarios then link to Tannenbaum and Schmidt theory. Then another scenario to build analysis and eval skills & eval depends on arguments. finally a mix and match activity to develop judgement skills. notes on depends on factors Visual Plenary.

Brand new activity designed for my A Level Business class for revision but also would work for skill building at end of year 1: 52 contexts (slips/boxes) and 32 Slides of the main theory/contexts in the Year 1 of the AQA specification (one theory per slide) on each slide students are asked to identify two contexts - one that could be useful / important / an issue for and one less so... they then need to explain why - so building contextualised analysis skills for short answers and compare and contrast judgment skills for essays. 52 compare and contrast contexts are thought of - which can be cut out so students can have a kinaesthetic activity or printed onto one A3 sheet of paper for quicker identification. fully editable revision or skills building resource

CONSOLIDATION PLACE MATS / REVISION FILL IN THE BLANKS SHEETS covering AQA YEAR 1 content Created for my students to help them consolidate the whole of year 1 content over the summer holidays but would be useful at anypoint before exams Questions that help cover theory, evaluations and some context 6 x SHEETS which will need enlarging up to A3 via photocopy Covering: 1. What is business including legal structures, 2. Markets inc Market Research and STP, 3. Marketing decisions including 7p’s, 4. Operational decisions including lean production and network diagrams, 5. Finance decisions including B/E, budgets, cashflow and balance sheets. 6.Human resource decisions including motivation, management styles, HR strategies and organisational structures PDF and WORD format

Student feedback “great”, “very useful”, the whole of year 2 in small chunks… awesome!", “not more revision!” Designed for the Year 2 of the business AQA specification 4 x revision fill in sheets to help students consolidate their knowledge running through the spec of year 2 - including strategy and tactics, internal environment, external environment and strategic choices Focuses on all the key areas / theories - focusing on specifics

Lesson designed for AQA business students Year 1. Starts off with video clip then what kind of manager would you be activity / questionairre then Grid theory with questions to stimulate discussion Then scenarios -which is right style to bring out the higher learning discussion, debate and depends on factors

Activity / lesson for revision..

Old Buss3 paper.. used to get student doing a SWOT analysis on it.. Then some of the old questions used but also 3 new questions - including open q like the new Paper 3 on AQA for the new spec...

used for a half term mock in term 1 of the lower 6 before any marketing or other functional areas really taught... also MS will levels and differences to look for as tell tell signs for different levels

Designed to help my students consolidate their understanding from the 1st term of their AQA Business A level. Helpful for lower 6 students in the early stages of the course and for upper 6 to revise these elements of the course. Available in fully editable word format. 12 pages of revision questions, tables and situations to explain (by filling in and answering the questions..) covering the topics within the intro to business and marketing parts of the 1st year of the course. Split into 4 sections: where students have questions and tables to fill in What is business - early questions Different legal forms - sole trader, Ltd, PLC, Share prices and market capitalization Some financial objectives - revenues, costs, profits, contribution, break-even Understanding markets and marketing - covering all element of the spec in these areas

Full lesson focusing on an integrated marketing mix with an Introduction of analysis of beer industry to start the conversation before moving onto looking at different types of Beer (normally I bring in props) and Beer market data with different usage habits... then a decision making activity on designing a beer for a target market which is quite good as it shows what Carlsberg actually did (which is normally very different to what the students normally come up with).

Greiner's Growth Model into an active lesson: There is a structured role-play activity They can do this in groups and discuss their similarities in answers and differences this then links to some real-life airline problems where they can discuss where they fit on the model (if they do or not) There is a video link explaining the theory and then you can get them to discuss the implications. Before an evaluation question to help them critique the model