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13/07/25

A massive game of stuck in the mud before bed, fingers crossed for a good sleep before another big day tomorrow pic.twitter.com/AYYJGIQVr5

12/07/25

Its Bronze Duke of Edinburgh assessed weekend! pic.twitter.com/9I5Em8D0uD

09/07/25

HGABR CORE Day! Year 7 had the best time today 🦁🐵🐯🐼 seeing the animals (and running through the sprinklers!) pic.twitter.com/DAJVpGH0KL

08/07/25

800m races underway! pic.twitter.com/Vag970X7PR

08/07/25

Its time for one of the most exciting afternoons of the Summer term, Sports Day! Let's go teams 🔴🟢🔵🟡

07/07/25

Starting the week as Thames Quadrant Winners! 🏆 our girls won gold in every year group and the overall day! 💅 🥇 unbelievably proud pic.twitter.com/uE5wNtvNOz

04/07/25

At the Copper Box Arena today with our dancers for the Dance competition. Our girls smashed their performance, now enjoying watching others! pic.twitter.com/DBW8aDHTfx

01/07/25

We are very proud to have made a new EAL Cook Book. Our wonderful EAL are always talking about their delicious home cooking, so we decided to put it all together in a book which is available in the library.#flavorsofhome pic.twitter.com/DkJZetvrR7

01/07/25

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30/06/25

Our Year 7 taster day is underway and our new girls are already feeling part of the HGABR community! pic.twitter.com/K7lYawJHGL

27/06/25

🌺 🌟 It’s HGABR Prom 2025! 🌟 🌺 Our amazing Year 11s are here and ready to celebrate 5 years of hard work, commitment and resilience! We are so proud of them all and can’t wait to take them through to Year 13! pic.twitter.com/iXQW0ex0BX

26/06/25

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26/06/25

🌺 🌟 It’s HGABR Prom 2025! 🌟 🌺 Our amazing Year 11s are here and ready to celebrate 5 years of hard work, commitment and resilience! We are so proud of them all and can’t wait to take them through to Year 13! pic.twitter.com/pvXZ5qgAMs

24/06/25

End of an era for our incredible Year 13s! We are so excited to see what you do next https://t.co/caoSdkD21R

24/06/25

Our Top Gun team are preparing for some complex maneuvers.#allcanwewill pic.twitter.com/8IcLrS7pPw

24/06/25

This week our Year 8 Top Gun team took part in a live webinar on Aviation careers#allcanwewill pic.twitter.com/1F8j5vSOik

20/06/25

This week the HGABR Student Commission & Year 12 Politics students were surprised during their trip to Parliament and Downing Street with MP Liam Conlon. The Prime Minister made an appearance prior to their meeting and Q & A with the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves. pic.twitter.com/FhxVNhUV5L

19/06/25

Rediscover your library during Celebration of Migration week! We love our EAL students and we have redecorated with every flag we can lay our hands on. Can you guess all the flags?#EALcool pic.twitter.com/KrTMjfbeoA

16/06/25

Nos encantan los libros en todos los idiomas.#allcanwewill pic.twitter.com/xmVyQJSsE0

16/06/25

This week is a celebration our amazing EAL students. We have decorated the library, put out novels in many languages and we have made an EAL recipe book, which shares the best of home cooking from around the world.#homecooking pic.twitter.com/wCGDFNhKi9

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Business Studies

We aim to develop all students' appreciation and interest in the field of Business. We want to give them the confidence, independence and resilience to be able to progress to further education, training or employment.

We aim to make our students the entrepreneurs of the future; shaping the necessary skills and embedding the commercial knowledge that will develop their business ideas, enhance their creativity and ultimately help secure success. The spirit and pace of the workplace, the demands of day-to-day business environments, with workload balance and entrepreneurship are captured and developed through the Business curriculum.  

Throughout, our lessons also develop their skills to be successful employees, and this is embedded into our curriculum through classroom learning, coursework and enrichment; for example, the discussion of employment legislation, understanding money and the drawbacks and benefits to sources of finance, marketing and business life skills. Key commercial knowledge is assessed and developed through exams, task-based assignments and ongoing in-class feedback that allows students to discover, apply and demonstrate their talent and ambition within the context of a particular business.

We also want to develop written and verbal analysis and evaluation skills, which are transferrable across a variety of different environments.

Curriculum plan - further details of the curriculum for all year groups can be found in the curriculum plan below.

A more detailed breakdown regarding subject content can be found on the exam board website using the following links:


DOCUMENTS

Business Studies Curriculum Plan

Textbooks and useful resources

CNAT Enterprise and Marketing

  • Level 1/Level 2 Cambridge National in Enterprise & Marketing (J837): Second Edition. Author: Tess Bayley, Leanna Oliver. ISBN: 9781398351219. Publisher: Hodder Education. Date: April 2022.

AQA A Level Business

  • AQA A-level Business [hoddereducation.co.uk]. Authors: Malcolm Surridge and Andrew Gillespie. Publisher: Hodder Education.
  • AQA Business for A Level (Marcousé) [hoddereducation.co.uk]. Authors: Ian Marcousé, Andrew Hammond, Nigel Watson. Publisher: Hodder Education.

CTEC Business

  • Cambridge Technicals Level 3 Business. Author: Tess Bayley, Karen Tullett, Leanna Oliver, Dianne Wainwright. ISBN: 9781471874796. Publisher: Hodder Education. Date: September 2016

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