The new N6 Higher Business Management course is available to S5 students who have successfully completed the N5 course in S4 and also is an option to S6 students as a crash Higher subject.

The course contains 5 main topic areas:-

Understanding Business
Marketing
Operations
Finance
People (HR)

The up-dated assessment structure consists of a 90 mark 2 hour 45 minute written paper and 30 mark coursework report on a business of choice.

The coursework report will include 4 sections:-

Introduction
Research
Analysis and Interpretation
Conclusion and recommendations

For more information, please see the SQA Subject pages.

To help develop greater awareness of the current business environment, and to help provide inspiration for the coursework task, students are encouraged to follow the @ClydeviewB Twitter page.

The department also make use of GLOW Teams to provide  additional student support resources. Each student has been issued with a user account name and password to access this facility both in and outwith the classroom.

 From a recent survey of N6 students, it was clear that the vast majority found using the Quizizz resource to be helpful as a revision tool for assessments. These quizzes can be found searching  N6 Bus Mgt quiz name within the website.

To help students relate their studies to the real life work of enterprise, the class participate in a number of activities.

In November, students participate in the Scotland Schools Global Investment Challenge, supported by BNP Paribas and SDS.

As a department, we are grateful for the continued support of the staff at Amazon’s Fulfilment Centre in Gourock for hosting our annual visit in February/March.