Welcome to the Business Studies Faculty.

Our aim is to ensure that all students achieve the very best grades they can in external examinations but also to prepare students for working life in the future; either as entrepreneurs and business owners or as employees who can make a positive contribution to the organisation they work for.

We are extremely proud of our record of achieving outstanding results in external examinations –as recognised in the last Ofsted report. We are particularly proud of our position as one of the very best business departments in the country in terms of adding value for our students at AS and A2 in the sixth form.

We also make every effort to make our courses and our teaching up to date and relevant, giving students the opportunity to meet real business entrepreneurs and managers, visit local businesses and work on real business issues and problems.

Our department is currently made up of the following members of staff:

Mr Jones (Head of Faculty)
Mr Hand (i/c Economics)
Mrs Brown

At Hayfield we currently deliver the following business courses:-
Year 8 - Mobile phone marketing project

Students research, design and market a new mobile phone aimed at the teenage market. At the end of the course students are invited to ‘pitch’ their ideas to our ‘Dragon’s Den’ of business experts.

KS4 - GCSE Business Studies
This is a very flexible course offering students the possibility of taking units in enterprise, business, ICT and economics (depending on numbers and option blocks). The course covers the steps involved in setting up a new business as well as the more traditional business topics of marketing, production, human resources and finance.

KS5 - AS and A2 Business Studies
This course follows on from the GCSE course developing in greater depth the business functions of marketing, human resources, finance and operations management. There is also a topic on enterprise – how to go about setting up a new business.

KS5 - AS and A2 Economics
 This is a long established and highly respected academic course looking at how the UK economy operates. Topics include how markets work (or don’t!) inflation, unemployment, trade and government management of the economy. The recent recession has been a major focus for study.