Business and Economics is a well established department in the Senior School. The department offers separate courses in Business Studies and Economics available at GCSE and A-Level.

In both the GCSE and A-Level courses that we offer, students have the opportunity to demonstrate their ICT skills, presentation skills and creative talents. The Economics and Business Department have now moved into the Sixth Form block benefiting from larger classrooms and improved facilities.

The department offers AQA GCSE Business Studies and AQA GCSE Economics for years 10 and 11. Year 11 students complete an independent investigation for the coursework element of the course.

In the Sixth form students, have the opportunity to study either AQA A-Level Business Studies or AQA A-Level Economics.

There are a wide variety of career paths available to Economics and Business Students and it is a popular choice to study further at University level. Students often find that they are particularly interested in a topic area and choose to specialise in at University.

The business AS/A2 will suit any student that wants to continue with a business-allied degree or who want to specialise in any one area of business i.e. Marketing and Insurance. Increasingly students find that many jobs and sectors now have a profit motive which mean that businesses - even charities - follow a business model in terms of how they are run. This means that if you become an engineer it is likely that you will be involved at some stage in your career with a business - you will progress faster if you have a business bias or knowledge as you will progress in this organisation as a manager if you have the knowledge to make business decisions be it recruitment, finance or strategy-orientated.

Economics at AS and A2 is seen as the more scientific of the two AS options as it looks at the science of business operations - this will involve considering the issues of supply and demand and the activities of Governments to control the economy. As the economy involves every one therefore Economics will involve you - it is natural therefore that you will understand many of the key issues discussed in this course. We will examine the issues of Growth, Inflation and how interest rates control this and how countries compete in trading to maintain imports and exports to manage their Balance of Payments.