Oxford School EBIT Department

Young Enterprise Business Plan Competition Entry

See the fantastic hard work that some of our Year 11 students have completed as part of a Young Enterprise Business Plan Competition...

Download Young_enterprise_bid_-_business_plan_DEC09

A "Virtual Goody-Bag!" - Faculty Showcase 8th December 2009

Good Afternoon!

Listed below are some short articles compiled by the Business & Economics Team on various key teaching principles (plus some things we just generally like!) - We hope you find them useful? If you do, let us know using 'comments' below...

About us - Download Characteristics of the B&E Department

New Courses we are excited about! - Download New Courses in B&E

Our Blog - Download The Blog & How to set one up!

Always improving! - Download Dept Review Evaluation & Improvement

Student Voice - Example from Year 10 - Click here!

Social Networking as a Teaching Tool? - Click here!

Starter & Plenary Activities (incl new ideas like Wipeout, 3-2-1 & 15 Word Challenge, Wedding Planner, Memory Games, "A few of my favourite things" game, Business Briefs & more...) - Download Starter Activities

Plenary Roles - Giving students ownership of learning and progress in lessons whilst incorporating SEAL, AFL, Literacy etc. - Download Plenary Roles Templates & Download Plenary_Roles_explanation_&_feedback

Literacy Strategies (Thanks to Miss Warrington) - Click here!

Knowing your Students - Download Knowing your students

AFL (Assessment for Learning - Includes information about Effective Questioning, Sharing Learning Goals with students and Self / Peer Assessment) - Download Assessment for Learning (AFL) 

Student Rewards - mystickers.co.uk demo / info - Click here

Lesson Objectives - Download Setting effective lesson objectives

Getting quality coursework in on time (Through 'built-in' assessment) - Download Built-in Assessment 

Differentiation (Pat Johnson's Top Tips and Differentiation built into a program of study) - Download Differentiation

Homework - Download Setting effective Homework

Market Research and it's benefits - Tesco Case Study

Fantastic resource for P3 in 'Introduction to Marketing'!

Download TalkingTesco

Market reseach theory / notes also available....

Download Market research

...and a reminder of your assignment for both P3 AND P5...

Download Y12 ITM P5 & P3 Assignment

Sticker Rewards....Last chance!

Good Morning Business Students!

You have until 10am this Friday to log any final mysticker rewards and climb your way up our current leader board! Prizes will be awarded on the first day back in January 2010!

Zuhura Kiswamba - 350

Zacc Hyde-Thomas - 300

Ahmed Eldawi - 250

Scott Faulkner - 250

Tomos Davies - 200

Connor Wheeler - 200

Fatimah Shabir - 200

Ekramul Hoque - 200

Sidra Khan - 200

Andy Lai - 200

BTEC Business & Enterprise scores from Y10 (plus what needs doing to get your Certificate!)

Good Afternoon Y11 BTEC B&E Students!

Attached below is a spreadsheet outlining what is left for you to complete from last year's work!

We strongly recommended you attend after school clubs to work on this...Mr Coakley Mondays (until 5pm) & Fridays (until 4:30pm) in B3 and Mr Thompson and Mr Edwards are available on Wednesdays in B1 and B4 respectively!

Download B&E Scores at start of Year 11

Your Mission...

...Should you choose to accept it is to answer your question below using the 'Comment' Function and then use all the answers to help you complete your 'Admin & ICT' slide...

Download Administration & ICT Support

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Atmospherics? Link

We can do it! We can put our own videos on ebitnow.com!

Though not the most interesting video ever!

Richard Branson unveils Virgin Galactic Space Shuttle

Sir Richard Branson has unveiled the rocket plane he will use to take fare-paying passengers into space. SpaceShipTwo was presented to the world in Mojave, California.

The vehicle will undergo testing over the next 18 months before being allowed to take ticketed individuals on short-hop trips just above the atmosphere.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7530216.stm

ebitnow.com on Facebook!

Instant Business news, articles, tv, video, competitions, assignments, deadline alerts, help, support, homework, notes and loads of other useful stuff from the Business Department straight to your mobile or email address! Follow us on 'ebitnow.com'!

Oxford School Writing Skills Toolkit

Struggling with how to structure your text (assignment, essay, report etc)? How to make your work suit your audience? Linking and developing your ideas so that your work 'reads' or 'flows' well? Using the right vocabulary / language / words? Putting work in the right order? Making sure you are accurate (good spelling, punctuation etc)? Worry no more! Below are 10 really great strategies to help you with all of these common problems (Thanks to Miss Warrington in the English Department)...

 

Please note that these strategies were designed to help school staff to help students so you will find that the explanations are written for teachers and teaching assistants (but remember they are just as easy to use for yourself)!

 

Strategy 1 (Audience) - Download Audience Analysis Checklist

Strategy 2 (Structuring your text) - Download Writing Frames

Strategy 3 (Structuring your text) - Download Graphic Organisers

Strategy 4 (Link & Develop Ideas) - Download Using Connectives

Strategy 5 (Link & Develop Ideas) - Download Develop a Writing Mat

Strategy 6 (Vocabulary / Words) - Download Word-Wall Activities

Strategy 7 (Order) - Download Follow the Teaching Sequence for Writing

Strategy 8 (Accuracy) - Download Proof-Reading

Strategy 9 (Accuracy) - Download Sentence Punctuation

Strategy 10 (Accuracy) - Download Common Problems

 

Teachers / Parents - Want to know more? Then check out Miss Warrington's complete literacy strategies presentation below..

 

Download Literacy Strategies