Subject: Enterprise

Year Group: 7

Key Topics

What will ALL students learn?

What will the most able students learn?

Autumn 1

What are the Academies Specialism Skills?

The aim of this unit is to introduce Year 7 students to the Academies specialism skills and develop an understanding of how these can be demonstrated.  Students will be working in teams to designing a calendar for the Academies staff that shows them demonstrating the specialism skills. 

On completion of the unit students should:

• be able to identify what the Academies Specialism Skills are
• demonstrate their understanding of the Academies Specialism skills in real life

• Understand how to work in a team
• Evaluate and reflect on their success of the unit.

   

On completion of the unit students should:

• confidently demonstrate their understanding of the Academies Specialism skills

• be able to apply their learning to a real life context

• Identify areas of improvement in their own and other work, and plan steps to improve these areas

Autumn 2

What makes a good leader?

The unit focuses on developing students understanding of what it means to lead others whilst also developing students communication and presentation skills.  Students start by looking at what it means and takes to be a leader before looking at the leadership qualities they already possess.  The unit then continues by getting students to relate their learning to real life and prepare and present a short speech about a leader they have an interest in. 

On completion of the unit students should:

• Be able to identify key characteristics of a leader

• Be able to demonstrate leaderships and communication skills

• Research and present information to a group

• Explain what makes communication and presentation effective

• Evaluate and reflect on their success of the unit.

On completion of the unit students should:

• Present a well-structured speech with confidence and using advanced vocabulary

• Demonstrate strong leadership and team working skills

• be able to apply their learning to a real life context

• Identify areas of improvement in their own and other work, and plan steps to improve these areas

Spring 1

How do we make decisions?

The unit focuses on developing student’s decision making skills whilst also developing students planning and problem solving skills.  This unit starts by getting students to look how they make decisions and the influence they have on others decisions.  The unit then gets students to think about the consequences of decisions before concluding by looking at a decision making tool that businesses use minimise risk in the real world.

On completion of the unit students should:

• Be able to make decisions and justify/explain their reasons for making these decisions

• Understand the influence they have on other people decisions

• Understand the influence other people have on their decisions

• Identify the positive and negative consequences of a decision

• Evaluate and reflect on their success throughout the unit.

On completion of this unit the most able students should:

• Calculate the risk/reward of a situation

• Clearly justify their reasons for making (or not making) a decision

• be able to apply their learning to a real life context

• Identify areas of improvement in their own and other work, and plan steps to improve these areas

   

Spring 2

What is a charity?

The unit focuses on developing students understanding of what the aims and purpose of charities are whilst looking at the practical functions of donations. Furthermore, this unit is looking to develop students specialism skills, focusing mainly on researching, creating and communication skills. Students will start by looking at what being a charity means and looking at the role of charity in their own community. The unit will then get students to research a charity of their choice, come up with a fundraising idea for the chairity and present their ideas to the rest of the class in an attempt to gain donations.

On completion of the unit students should:

• Be able to identify what a charity is and how it makes money

• Be able to create a manifesto and fundraising poster for their charity

• Research and communicate information on their charity during a gallery walk

• Explain what makes communication and team work effective

• Evaluate and reflect on their success in the unit.

On completion of this unit the most able students should:

• Discuss the benefits that charity provide to society

• Use a range of persuasive techniques to promote their fundraising

• Discuss the challenges that charities face in the current economic climate

• be able to apply their learning to a real life context

• Identify areas of improvement in their own and other work, and plan steps to improve these areas

Summer 1

Helping Others – Year 6 Induction Guide

The unit gives pupils the responsibility of developing a “top 10 tips” resource (leaflet, video, or podcast). The unit encourages students to reflect upon the progress they have made throughout the course of Year 7 and to reflect upon what key items of knowledge have allowed them to succeed. This unit gives them the chance to impart this knowledge with the new intake of Year 6’s, to share practical Harris Academy Purley tips. The resource that students produce will be shared with Year 6’s on their induction day.

On completion of the unit students should:

• Reflect upon their progress in Year 7.

• Identify questions that they had when beginning at Harris Academy Purley.

• Refine and priorities questions into useful hints for a new Year 7.

• Design an attractive and well informed resource to issue to a new Year 7.

• Evaluate and reflect on their success in the unit.

   

On completion of this unit the most able students should:

• Produce a near professional standard resource for new Year 6 students

• Justify and evaluate their design choices

• Provide a detailed “top 10 tips” resource

• be able to apply their learning to a real life context

• Identify areas of improvement in their own and other work, and plan steps to improve these areas

Summer 2

Introduction to Personal Finance

The unit introduces students to the world of finance and takes the students through the basics of banking and financial management.  It asks students to make decisions based on real-life situations – from the decision to open a bank account for the first time through to managing money on a day-to-day basis as part of living independently away from home.  This unit leads into the topics that will be studied in Year 8 and 9 as apart of the AQA Certificate in Enterprise and Employability

On completion of the unit students should:

• be more confident about banking and managing money

• understand the sort of support banks can offer 

• make decisions about real-life situations

On completion of this unit the most able students should:

• be able to explain a range of financial products a bank offers a consumer

• be able to offer appropriate advice to a range of different consumers

• Identify areas of improvement in their own and other work, and plan steps to improve these areas