Business
Curriculum Maps for 2025/26 can be found below:
Accounting Curriculum Map 25.26
BTEC Travel and Tourism Curriculum Map 25.26
CTEC Business Curriculum Map 25.26
Economics Curriculum Map 25.26
What makes Business Special?
Business is a varied, interesting and thought-provoking subject that allows students to immerse themselves in the business world. The course is highly interactive, allowing students to develop a range of skills that will benefit them in further study and in their future careers. Business is a popular option within Cheam High School with the department seeking to develop students’ understanding
of the business world in an interesting and engaging way.
What skills will you develop from studying Business?
Business will enable students to develop a wide range of skills. Within the department, we aim to prepare students to think analytically about topics and content in order to formulate meaningful decisions that they can support through real life examples and knowledge. In addition, Business helps students to develop key enterprise skills such as communication, team working and problem solving.
What other opportunities are available in this subject?
There are a number of opportunities available to students to learn about real life organisations. Also, students carry out research and produce a detailed plan for their own business idea as part of the ‘Business Challenge’.
What topics will you study in Years 9, 10 and 11?
Students study a wide range of topics which cover all of the skills that would be needed to set up and manage a range of businesses; starting with small businesses in Year 9 and eventually moving onto large limited companies by the end of the course. Specific topics include:
• How to set up a business and different types of business ownership: sole traders, partnerships and limited companies
• Making effective decisions in all of the functional areas of a business: marketing, human resources, finance and operations
• The external environment that affects businesses, especially economic, technological and legal factors
Students also learn written skills that allow them to produce detailed responses, as well as use qualitative and quantitative data to help them make judgements about business performance.
What courses are available post 16?
The Business department offers a wide range of courses at post 16 that enable learners of all types to find courses that are suitable to them and in which they can be successful.
The courses on offer are:
• A Level Business
• A Level Accounting
• OCR Cambridge Technical in Business
• BTEC Level 3 National in Travel and Tourism