A Level Business

In the ICAEW National Schools Business Competition our teams have won the regional finals four times and were runners up nationally. Students have won three awards during the world finals of the Global Student Challenge in Hong Kong on two occasions. Their business plan came third in the world and won the best environmental business award out of 191 teams. In another business competition, organised by Grant Thorntons, our students won iPad computers for being the best business in Yorkshire.

Our department has been credited in the Good Schools Guide for the best non-selective state school for Business Studies at A Level. The department gives every student the opportunity to visit famous businesses and speak first hand with entrepreneurs. First year students have been visited by local entrepreneurs including Nicola Mellor of Pepamint Marketing and the designer Stefanie Smith. Second year students have visited entrepreneurs Kirsty Henshaw, Dean Hoyle and Theo Paphitis at local events. Recent trips have included Jaguar Land Rover, Coca Cola, Man Utd, Nissan, IKEA and JCB. Further afield we have been to Shepherd Neame in Kent and the Crystal D’Arc glass factory in France. Second year students have the opportunity to visit New York with visits to the Federal Reserve Bank and Macys department store.