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This is an extremely useful revision workbook for unit of the GCSE Business Studies course. It recaps key material and key words for students, gives them activities to complete and provides advice on revising effectively and improving exam technique. As well as being a useful aid to assist students in their own revision, this workbook would be a useful accompaniment to in-class work and when attempting exam questions. Topics covered include: purpose of a business, research methods, added value, entrepreneurship, revenues, cost and profit, cash flow, business plan, finance, supply and demand, stakeholders and the business cycle.

This resource is an extremely comprehensive powerpoint containing revision material for unit 3 of the GCSE Business syllabus. This would be excellent to use as a revision session, to refresh pupils’ knowledge or as a check to assess their prior knowledge. Each interactive slide has a series of helpful prompts and questions to quiz pupils on and promote discussion. Topics covered include: marketing, product life cycle, branding, design and research, customer service, cost effectiveness, growth, break even analysis, organisational structures, motivation, business ethics and the impact of the government/EU on business.

This resource is a very useful covering letter template for secondary school students to use as a guide/framework for completing their own CV. It’s a straightforward, easily adaptable template which is equally effective for KS3 or KS4 pupils. It could be used in PSHE lessons (such as when learning about the world of work or completing a mock job application), as a form time activity, KS3 and GCSE Business studies lessons or as part of an enterprise activity/day.

This resource is a very useful CV template for secondary school students to use as a guide/framework for completing their own CV. It’s a straightforward, easily adaptable template which is equally effective for KS3 or KS4 pupils. It could be used in PSHE lessons (such as when learning about the world of work), as a form time activity, KS3 and GCSE Business studies lessons or as part of an enterprise activity/day.

This resource contains a Powerpoint containing a series of lessons on branding, which would be suitable for KS3 or GCSE Business classes. It could also be used as part of an enterprise activity (students could be guided to create their own mock business using the information in the powerpoint) or as part of a PSHE lesson on careers and employability. The powerpoint comprehensively covers the different brand archetypes, brand identity/personality, brand image, colour theory and target audience.

This resource contains a handy template to enable KS3 pupils to peer assess a piece of homework in any given subject. Students are guided to appropriately assess the work against the marking criteria and encouraged to provide constructive feedback through using the 2 stars and a wish model where pupils highlight 2 things their peers and have done well and something which could be improved on. This works excellently as part of a starter or plenary activity and builds higher-order thinking skills among students whilst encouraging them to be reflective learners.

This is a very useful template which enables KS3 and GCSE students to self and peer assess a piece of coursework, project or other extended piece of work in any subject. It effectively scaffolds pupils through the process of self/peer assessment by guiding them to comprehensively assess the piece of work on a number of areas including structure, use of key words, presentation, spelling and grammar, quality of sources used and referencing. Students are encouraged to respond to peer feedback and set achievable targets for themselves and be reflective learners.

This resource contains a comprehensive self-assessment template for students on measuring their progress and behaviour to complete in consultation with their teacher or form tutor. This could be used as part of a individual progress meeting with teachers or completed at/in advance of a parents’ evening for students. It is adaptable for any subject and effectively guides students to consider their progress in lessons including identifying areas they are confident in and need to improve, whether they are meeting behaviour and homework standards whilst setting achievable targets to be agreed with their teacher or form tutor.

This is an incredibly useful resource which KS3 and GCSE students can use as a template to self-assess their progress in any given subject. It provides a framework for pupils to examine the areas of their learning they feel confident in and those that they struggle with using a traffic-light system whilst also encouraging them to set achievable targets in order to meet their learning needs. Students can stick this in this books for easy reference and complete as a plenary activity.

This resource contains a very useful template for KS3 and GCSE students to self-assess effectively using a traffic light model. Pupils are guided to think of something positive they achieved in the lesson (green), something to think about (amber) and to think what they could improve on (red). Students are provided with an example to scaffold their way through the process. This template can be used in any subject as part of a plenary activity and can easily be adapted to enable students to peer assess each other.

This is a handy template which secondary school pupils (KS3 and GCSE) can use to self-assess the amount of effort they have put into their work and engagement within the lesson for any subject. This is useful in setting clear expectations for behaviour and participation for students, encouraging them to become more reflective learners and be active in improving their behaviour and contribution to the lesson where appropriate. Students could put this in their exercise books and grade themselves for effort as part of a plenary activity.

This is an extremely useful revision booklet for finance topics in GCSE Business Studies. It recaps key material and key words for students, gives them activities to complete and provides advice on revising effectively and improving exam technique. As well as being a useful aid to assist students in their own revision, they would be a useful accompaniment to in-class work and when attempting exam questions. Topics covered include: flow of business documents, accounting systems, methods of payment, costs, cash flow, budgets, break even, profit and loss, balance sheets and types of finance.

This is an excellent resource containing a powerpoint with revision material on the marketing topics in GCSE Business. It recaps key material for students, whilst providing them with activities and questions to complete themselves. It has enough content for a series of revision sessions for students and would also work well in assessing pupils’ prior knowledge and as a baseline assessment. Topics covered include: customer needs, market research, surveys, secondary research and quantitative/qualitative data.

This resource is a very useful revision booklet for finance modules in GCSE Business. It covers all key terms, providing an overview of each topic, glossaries and sample questions for students to try out. As well as being a useful revision aid for students, this would be a useful accompaniment for in-class work and when attempting exam questions. Topics covered include: Break Even, Fixed Assets, Current Assets and Liabilities, Stakeholders, Sources of Finance, Financial Documents, Payments, Cashflow Forecasts, Costs, Profit and Loss and Budgets.

This is an excellent resource containing a comprehensive, 10-page glossary of all the key terms used in higher and further education, with each term clearly defined with examples. This could be used in a secondary school PSHE lesson involving careers when teaching pupils about further study options to give them a flavour of what’s involved in higher and further education. It would also work well as part of a taster session delivered by colleges and universities and could be adapted to become a collaborative learning activity where pupils are provided with the key words without definitions and work together to define them. Finally, this would be really useful as a handout for any sixth form student considering applying to university.

Ideal for sixth form or mature students: this model personal statement is a sure-fire method of helping with an application to go to University. The resource is a model personal statement for a secondary school maths teaching course. The personal statement gives students an idea of what to include in and how to structure their own personal statement, possibly using it as a template. It is easily transferable to applying to a degree course of any subject. Could be used as part of a careers, citizenship or PSHE lesson or as a teaching tool to help structure university applications in colleges and other education providers. It can also be an incredibly useful item to support any individual who is planning to apply to university by themselves.

This resource contains a model personal statement for a successful application to become a higher level teaching assistant (HLTA) at a secondary school. It is well-written and succinct and would be useful in helping completing a HLTA teaching assistant application for a primary, secondary school or college. Furthermore, it is very adaptable and provides a clearly defined template/structure for applicants to create their own personal statement. In addition to being useful for prospective candidates for a HLTA position, this could also be used in a PSHE lesson covering the world of work by providing students with a real-life example of a successful personal statement for a job application. This could lead onto an activity where students could be asked to analyse the features of this personal statement as to why it was successful.

This resource contains a model personal statement for a successful secondary school teaching assistant application. It is very well-written and succinct and would be useful in helping provide inspiration for completing a teaching assistant application for a primary, secondary school or college. Furthermore, it is very adaptable and provides a clearly defined template/structure for applicants to create their own personal statement. In addition to being useful for prospective candidates for a TA position, this could also be used in a PSHE lesson covering the world of work by providing students with a real-life example of a successful personal statement. This could lead onto an activity where students could be asked to analyse the features of this personal statement as to why it was successful.