This shop, set up in October 2016 aims to provide Business Teaching resources for
BTEC Level 2 Business Studies
GCSE Business Studies
Resources will include, worksheets, lessons and assessment material.
In the future the shop will expand to include A Level Business and Level 3 Business Resources.
This shop, set up in October 2016 aims to provide Business Teaching resources for
BTEC Level 2 Business Studies
GCSE Business Studies
Resources will include, worksheets, lessons and assessment material.
In the future the shop will expand to include A Level Business and Level 3 Business Resources.
We are planning to deliver the Pearson's BTEC Level 1 Introductory qualification in Vocational Studies in 2017. This resource is therefore aimed at learners working at level 1.
This resource contains:
Our planned Assignment brief for Unit A1 Being Organised - Remember your internal verifier will need to verifier this assignment brief before use and you need to add your assessor's name and assessment dates.
Also included are some worksheets to help with task 1 and task 2
Worksheets for task 1 relate to approaches to help with being organised and include:
1_3_5 Task list - setting tasks by priority (1 main task - 3 medium tasks and 5 small tasks
A generic check list template worksheet
A task Planner by day worksheet
A task planner matching tasks with required energy levels
A task planner dividing tasks by urgency
A task planner by week
There is also a template for task 2 where learners review the techniques they used in task 1. The template is in a table format and makes learners consider how useful the technique was and how they could use the technique in the future.
This resource is a revision booklet for BTEC Business Level 3 - Unit 3 Personal and Business Finance
The booklet covers Learning aim A - Personal Finance
Functions and Role of Money (A1)
Different ways to pay (A2)
Current Accounts (A3)
Managing Personal Finance (A4)
The student booklet contains revision activities and exam style questions.
The teacher answer booklet contains answers to all the revision activities and mark schemes for the exam style questions.
I am currently working on a revision booklet for the other Learning Aims which focus on Business Finance.
This resource is a revision booklet for BTEC Business Level 3 - Unit 3 Personal and Business Finance
The booklet covers Learning aim E - Break Even and Cash flow forecasts.
Cash Flow Forecasts (E1)
Break-Even analysis (E2)
The student booklet contains revision activities and exam style questions.
The teacher answer booklet contains answers to all the revision activities and mark schemes for the exam style questions.
I am currently working on revision booklets for the other Learning Aims for this unit.
PowerPoints and Worksheet for Learning Aim A: Explore the role of marketing within businesses
For Unit 9 Principles of Marketing - BTEC First Business -
Topics covered included:
Topic A.1 Principles of marketing
● Definition of marketing
● Why marketing is important to businesses, including how it is used to gain market
share, develop brand awareness, encourage customer loyalty
● How businesses use marketing, including:
o to understand customer needs
o to keep ahead of competitors
o to communicate effectively with the public
o to increase sales and profitability
● Understand the contribution of marketing to the achievement of corporate objectives
● Understand the use of SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timebased) objectives within a marketing plan
Topic A.2 What is a market?
● Be able to identify types of market, including Business to Business (B2B) and
Business to Consumer (B2C)
● Understand the implications of the market targeted for the type of marketing activity
undertaken
● Understand the difference between:
o customer and consumer
o goods and services markets
o capital and consumer goods markets
● Be able to identify and define:
o niche and mass markets
o market and product orientated businesses
● Understand different types of business model including marketing, sales and
advertising
● Understand how orientation of a business affects its choice of marketing, sales or
advertising model
Topic A.3 Principles of branding
● Understand the importance of branding for a business in creating a distinctive
offering for a chosen market
● Understand the different dimensions of a distinctive brand, including the use of logos,
colours, symbols, images and celebrity endorsements
● Understand the benefits to a business of building brands, including extensions, value
and personalit
This resource contains two revision booklet for BTEC Business Level 3 - Unit 3 Personal and Business Finance
The first booklet covers Learning aim A - Personal Finance
Functions and Role of Money (A1)
Different ways to pay (A2)
Current Accounts (A3)
Managing Personal Finance (A4)
The second booklet covers Learning aim B - Explore the personal finance sector.
Features of Financial Institutions (B1)
Communicating with customers (B2)
Consumer Protection in relation to personal finance (B3)
Information guidance and advice (B4)
The student booklets contain revision activities and exam style questions.
The teacher answer booklets contains answers to all the revision activities and mark schemes for the exam style questions.
I am currently working on revision booklet for the other Learning Aims and also plan to produce a mock exam.
Also included are some spreadsheet templates for ratio analysis, break even and cash flow which will help with the later learning aims.
This resource is a revision booklet for BTEC Business Level 3 - Unit 3 Personal and Business Finance
The booklet covers Learning aim B - Explore the personal finance sector.
Features of Financial Institutions (B1)
Communicating with customers (B2)
Consumer Protection in relation to personal finance (B3)
Information guidance and advice (B4)
The student booklet contains revision activities and exam style questions.
The teacher answer booklet contains answers to all the revision activities and mark schemes for the exam style questions.
I am currently working on revision booklets for the other Learning Aims which focus on Business Finance.
An 8 page workbook covering Revenue. This resource is primarily been designed for BTEC First Level 1/2 unit 2 Business Finance but could be used for GCSE students as well.
It covers:
• Sources of Revenue
• How to calculate revenue
Can be used for revision or homework.
Contains answers.
This resource has been designed for GCSE Business Studies, and can be used for the new AQA GCSE Business (8132) for exams 2019 - it covers 3.1.1 The purpose and nature of businesses and focuses on Business enterprise and entrepreneurship. It can also be modified slightly to use for any other level 2 business lesson focusing on the characterisitics needed to become an entrepreneur and the motivations behind starting up your own business.
This resources contains material for two 55 minute lessons covering
A lesson plan for two lessons, listing student and teacher activity
A PowerPoint guiding students through activities related to characteristics of an entrepreneur and objectives of an entrepreneur.
A worksheet where students provide examples of real life entrepreneurs
An answer sheet for the worksheet
An extension activity where students read entrepreneur cards describing 5 different key characteristics needed to become an entrepreneur before completing their own Priority Pyramid to list the characteristics in their own chosen order.
The lesson contains links to additional information about real life entrepreneurs, such as interviews and news paper articles.
There is also a homework sheet for the students which requires them to research an entrepreneur and produce a mini biography.
There is diversity included in the entrepreneurs chosen, with a teenage entrepreneur and a "mumentrepreneur" (a mum who has set up their own business after leaving full time work to care for their young children), as well as well known entreprenuers including Sir Alan Sugar, Steve Jobs and James Dyson.
2 Mock Exams for unit 2 Finance for Business
Also includes the 2 accompanying answers and mark scheme
Also included is a revision powerpoint quiz
Plus excel templates for cash flow forecasts, breakeven, Balance sheets and Profit and Loss Accounts
This resource is a revision booklet for BTEC Business Level 3 - Unit 3 Personal and Business Finance
The booklet covers Learning aim C - The Purpose of Accounting
Purpose of Accounting (C1)
Types of Income (C2)
Types of Expenditure (C3)
The student booklet contains revision activities and exam style questions.
The teacher answer booklet contains answers to all the revision activities and mark schemes for the exam style questions.
I am currently working on a revision booklet for the other Learning Aims and hope to upload them soon.
A Cash Case Study for (BTEC First (2012) Level 2 Business - Unit 2 - Finance For Business)
The resource includes a case study based on two students forming a partnership and planning to open a café.
The students use the case study and spreadsheet template to create a cash flow.
There is an evaluation worksheet which gets students to analyse the cash flow
The students can then identify changes to the forecast to make the business end the year with a surplus.
Answers are provided for the cashflow forecast and evaluation worksheet.
A resource which was originally designed as a class activity for BTEC level 2 learners but can be used as part of a tutorial lesson on career planning.
The resource contains a lesson powerpoint - includes discussion on job versus career - skills audit activity and career development planning activity.
Worksheet templates are provided for the skills audit and career planning activity.
If used with BTEC level 2 learners, then the resource will help learners prepare for learning aim C and criteria
1C.6 - Produce, with guidance, a personal career development plan (learners can use templates for assessment )
2C.P6 Produce a realistic personal career development plan (learners will need to create their own template but can use templates included as part of a lesson activity)
2C.M5 Produce a realistic personal carer development plan showing independent research and planning (learners will research and design own career plan and research their career paths independently)
Business Location - GCSE Business Studies Lesson and Group Task
This resources has been designed for GCSE Business Studies and can be used for the new AQA GCSE Business (8132) for exams 2019 - it covers 3.1.5 Business location from the specification.
This resources contains material for two 55 minute lessons covering business location.
Files included with this resource are
A PowerPoint guiding students through activities related to business location
A worksheet containing four business locations for students to discuss
A lesson plan containing the timings for the 2 X 55 minute lessons on Business Location
The main learning activity involves learners working in groups of four to analyse four potential new locations for a toy store. Students discuss the locations in their groups, recording both the advantages and disadvantage for each business location. The students then agree within their group their chosen business location and feedback how their reached their decisions.
A worksheet is included for each business location and each member of the group is expected to complete the advantages and drawbacks for at least one business location. This ensures all team members are contributing to the discussion.
A lesson or revision activity on the first topic of Unit 9 Principles of Marketing
BTEC First Business
Resource contains a powerpoint with activities including:
pair activity - define terms
guess the brand activity
class discussion based on images of unsuccessful products
There is a supporting worksheet along with an answer sheet
The lesson covers the following learning aim for Unit 9 Principles of Marketing
Topic A.1 Principles of marketing
● Definition of marketing
● Why marketing is important to businesses, including how it is used to gain market
share, develop brand awareness, encourage customer loyalty
● How businesses use marketing, including:
o to understand customer needs
o to keep ahead of competitors
o to communicate effectively with the public
o to increase sales and profitability
Branding - its importance and dimensions
Lesson Resources
Powerpoint
worksheet
worksheet answers
Specification
BTEC First Business
Unit 9 Principles of Marketing
Topic A.3 Principles of branding
● Understand the importance of branding for a business in creating a distinctive
offering for a chosen market
● Understand the different dimensions of a distinctive brand, including the use of logos,
colours, symbols, images and celebrity endorsements
This resource is an 8 page workbook for level 2 students.
It covers :
• Start up costs
• Operating (running costs)
• Fixed costs
• Variable costs
• Direct costs
• Indirect costs
There are brief recap notes and worked examples provided plus questions for learners to attempt.
An answer book is also provided.
The resource is used for my Level 2 BTEC First Business students studying Unit 2 Finance for Business. It could be used for GCSE or other level 2 qualifications.
A mock exam for Unit 2 Finance for Business for BTEC Firsts level 1/2
Resource contains 18 question exam paper including multple choices and 8 mark essay type question.
The resources also contains answers - mark scheme for each question.
Our Assessment plan for 2017-18 for the Level 1 / 2 BTEC first Award in Business
Learners have 4 hours a week
Units chosen are:
Unit 1 - Enterprise in the Business World
Unit 2 - Finance for Business -External Exam unit
Unit 7 - Providing Business Support
Unit 8 - Recruitment, Selection and Employment
First year delivering Level 2 after a break of 2 years - might deliver unit 1 and 7 together at the end as unit 1 is synoptic.
