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

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

useful lesson for Lean production and also allows coverage of Mass Customisation. Use of lego game to see how they many they can make before splitting them into Kaisan groups...and look to be more innovative in your production techniques…. asked to formulate plans Ideas might include JIT, Capital intensive / CELL Production, Flow production Line, pre-fabrication of supplies, TQM/quality assurance. Mass customisation reference to the 7/8 S's. Then Q&A adv/disadv etc

what facebook right to float (looking backwards as easier to look at the data then..) Data activity powerpoint with visuals / links for depends on arguments then looking at a failed IPO and should their investors be happy with facebooks performance since

Great Lesson which worked well for my Upper 6 A level Business Students - not much out there on this topic. Various versions - one which works well if in a private school and the other in a maintained school Starts off with describing a business in terms of important issues in terms of the model before putting students into a decision making situation where they can also analyse and evaluate, compare and contrast Draw the model out of this Then there is a active matrix use activity before looking at a case study with questions…

All the key models and theories across the A level Business course in AQA with model slides but also activities to apply the models. using for a revision session with mu students during half term

Updated version for 2019 with some answers for the calculation bits also Using for my U6 this year WORKBOOK 1 - introduction to strategy WORKBOOK 2 - choosing strategy WORKBOOK 3 - assessing internal strengths and weaknesses WORKBOOK 4 - assessing external opportunities and threats WORKBOOK 5 - assessing strategy WORKBOOK 6 - strategic implementation

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

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.

whole lesson looking at Carillion and why it failed... brief intro to get students understanding the business before an activity where students can analyse data to create an picture of the factors behind the failure of the business. Data includes financial accounts, share prices, missed objectives, bonus culture etc etc.. they can create the picture on flip chart paper. evaluation - was it bound to fail - students invites to present ideas on how they would have run it better..

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

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

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

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.

Activity / lesson for revision..