Business Enterprise

"If you start thinking you are good at something, that's often the day you stop trying to be better and open the back door for someone to come after you. That's why we always aim higher. We never feel like we're done." -Drew Houston, cofounder and CEO of Dropbox

PHILOSOPHY & VISION

You have engaged with the subject since birth. From hospital to home to school and to life outside of school you will have interacted with businesses and the goods and services they have supplied. Be part of the future and become a wealth creator, setting yourself up in business providing goods or services which people will pay you for.

Business affects every aspect of your life. It provides the basic needs, the clothes you wear, the food you eat and the house you live in. Some of you know someone who runs their own business or know people who work in a business for someone else. Where does the money come from to enable all this to happen. Take a look around you, you are surrounded by businesses that have seen opportunities to sell goods and services and will have made a good profit in the process. If you want to explore what the future could hold for you and the potential Business could play in it this is the course for you. If you have never considered working for yourself when you leave school this course may show you the possibilities that exist and if you end up working for a company and someone else is taking the risks and making the money and in turn paying you a wage you will at least know how that business operates. We can all sit back and watch but sometimes you have to take that dream of an idea and see if you can make a success of it!

Whatever you're thinking, think big!

Business Enterprise Curriculum Map - Year 10

Year 10

Investigate existing enterprises and understand what makes them successful. Study of entrepreneurs and understand what skills and characteristics are required to run a business, and why these are important. Explore the external environment and look at why it is important to fully understand and analyse what goes on in the world of politics, the economy and ever evolving technology.

Business Enterprise Curriculum Map - Year 11

Year 11

Using knowledge and understanding from Year 10, students create their own micro-enterprise idea and develop a business plan, looking at branding, finances and resources. Focus on the development of their pitching skills and content, as they turn their plan into a presentation and pitch their business idea to an audience.