GCSE Business - Teaching from 2025
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The GCSE Business qualification will support the Curriculum for Wales by:
- Supporting the statements of what matters by giving learners the opportunity to:
- gain a deeper understanding of the concepts underpinning humanities, and their application in local, national and global contexts
- helping learners gather, justify, present, analyse, and evaluate a range of evidence
- explore how and why interpretations may differ and by critical understanding of a range of interpretations and representations derived from a variety of evidence
- understanding and appreciating how and why places in their locality and elsewhere in Wales, as well as in the wider world, are changing
- understand, as producers and consumers, their own impact on the natural world
- develop their own identity and an awareness of how they, as individuals, can shape the communities in which they live
- heighten learners’ awareness of how the future sustainability of our world and climate change is influenced by the impact of those actions
- appreciate how the evolution of places, communities and societies is driven by the interplay between a range of factors, including environmental, economic, social, political and cultural processes and human actions
- develop an understanding of their responsibilities as citizens of Wales and the wider interconnected world
- encourage learners to develop as self-aware, informed, ethical global citizens, who critically reflect on their own and others’ beliefs, values and attitudes.
- Supporting the principles of progression by encouraging learners to:
- ask increasingly sophisticated enquiry questions
- demonstrate greater independence in finding suitable information, making informed predictions and hypotheses, and making judgements
- increase their breadth and depth of knowledge and underlying concepts
- develop an understanding of themselves in the world
- demonstrate an ability to work with an increasing number and sophistication of sources of information, and a growing understanding of how to resolve contradictory or conflicting accounts
- demonstrate a growing ability to transfer existing skills and knowledge into new, and increasingly unfamiliar contexts.
- Supporting the subject specific considerations for Business by:
- developing an understanding of business and its value to individuals, society and the Welsh, national and global economy
- enabling learners to appreciate that the environment in which business takes place is constantly changing
- appreciating the impact of business on people’s lives and the environment
- examining ways in which businesses succeed or fail and the strategies required for success
- developing an understanding of the contribution that business has in shaping the prosperity of communities and thereby people’s prospects for the future
- exploring business creation through enterprise and entrepreneurship
- developing skills to empower business problem solving and decision making.
The GCSE Business qualification will also be based on the following concepts:
- business and society
- business fundamentals
- business strategies for success
- change
- cynefin
- economies
- enquiry and investigation
- enterprise/ entrepreneurship
- ethics
- innovation
- opportunities and challenges
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