The College consists of five distinct buildings spanning the life of the College from 1937 to the present day. Our facilities are excellent including our Digital Arts suite, drama studio and trampolining hall. We have specialist resources for the Arts, design and technology, computing, science and PE, as well as extensive classroom accommodation and a learning resources centre. All classrooms have access to the internet. An indoor tennis centre opened in January 2007 and is a superb resource for both students and for the local community.
At Sir Jonathan North we believe it is vital to foster students’ holistic development alongside academic excellence. The holistic development is underpinned by our values, the 4 Rs and we will be utilising these throughout all aspects of college life. The 4 Rs are: Resilience - The ability to bounce back when facing challenges, Respect - Learning to value self, others and the environment, Reflectiveness - Understanding what needs to be done to make the next steps and planning how to do this, Resourcefulness - Having the confidence to search out answers in new ways and ask for guidance when necessary.
We achieve highly and examination results have been consistently good for many years. We aim to improve these results, with the awareness that students need support and guidance in managing the pressures of competition and challenge. We encourage students to be ambitious in their personal and academic goals. We work closely with parents to support our students and as a staff, we reward effort and achievement by creating a climate in and out of the classroom where individual initiative is recognised and team spirit is valued.
We set high expectations for both staff and students and work closely with parents. We believe that it is the duty of the College to educate our students to become responsible members of society and to respect others. Our experience is that students achieve high standards because they are set challenging targets, provided with interesting opportunities to learn in different ways and given support where they need it.
The College is proud of its unique and distinctive ethos as one of only two girls’ state secondary schools in Leicestershire and as a World Class school. We regard our student body as a major strength and take great pride in both the success and diversity of our student intake. We give students a voice in the College and we listen. We value courtesy, politeness, honesty and effort. We accept that we all make mistakes from time to time and we aim to learn from our mistakes. We are inspired by excellence in all forms including academic, creative, practical, physical and personal achievements.
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Curriculum rationale:
In Business we aim to foster and ignite an interest in Business and to challenge students to become more resourceful and reflective by applying what they learn to practical examples in the business world.
The Business curriculum is well sequenced and has been designed around looking at how to start a new business and how this can be achieved before growing the business into a multi-national corporation and the implications of this. This enables the students to gain the skills for future learning and employment in the business world. An example could be looking at the human resources department within a business and how they recruit new staff.
To enhance students’ knowledge and help foster a love for learning, real life case studies are used throughout the curriculum. Businesses and entrepreneurs such as Apple, Lush, Zoella Beauty are used during lessons to capture students’ imaginations.
This curriculum recognises the importance of the changing of Business in the United Kingdom and across the world and the different challenges that this may present in society and the classroom.
Curriculum Design:
The curriculum has been designed to broaden and enhance students’ cultural capital through exposure to a wide range of businesses. Memorisation strategies are embedded throughout, including weekly retrieval quizzes and interleaving concepts in end of topic tests.
Curriculum Plan:
Business 2 year curriculum plan |
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Year 10 |
Year 11 |
Autumn term |
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Introduction to the course – business challenge to create a business idea Theme 1 – Investigating small business Enterprise and entrepreneurship Spotting a business opportunity Putting a business idea into practice |
Theme 2 – Building a business Making marketing decisions Making operational decisions Making financial decisions
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Spring term |
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Theme 1 – Investigating small business Making the business effective Understanding external influences on business |
Theme 2 – Building a business Making human resource decisions Revision |
Summer term |
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Theme 2 – Building a business Growing the business |
Revision
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Curriculum Assessment:
Feedback is embedded into each lesson, in the form of teacher, peer or self-reflection. Students complete a topic test at the end of each topic. These tests mainly focus on the topic just completed along with some topics already completed. At the end of each theme they will sit a full paper based on that theme. In total, students will sit 10 topic tests along with four full exam papers before their final exams in year 11. They will also complete low stake recap quizzes on a weekly basis to challenge them to recall topics covered in previous lessons and months.
Extra-curricular opportunities:
Students have the opportunity to take part in the Young Enterprise Company programme during year 10. They need to apply to take part and will as a group run a business to provide s product or service to the public. They will compete in competitions against other Young Enterprise businesses throughout the year.