BTEC Certificate in

BusinessIndependent Summer Learning

Introductory Assignment

Introduction

• Within the Btec Certificate in Business you will study a total of 3 units over the year. Should you wish to continue into year 13 to achieve the Btec Subsidiary in Business you will study a further 3 units.

• Within your Summer Introductory Module we are focusing on 1unit.

• Unit 1: The Business Environment

Part 1

Unit 1: The Business Environment

Unit 1: The Business Environment

Within this unit you will examine how businesses are affected by outside change, such as changes in laws and changes in society. You will investigate the changing environment for 2 different types of businesses; Burberry Plc and New College, Pontefract.

We will begin by looking at the following criteria;

Pass – Describing the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting businesses

What am I actually being asked to do?

Describe = Give a clear description that includes all the relevant features – think of it as ‘painting a picture with words’

Lets start with the two businesses/organisations that you need to introduce – New College Pontefract and Burberry plc. The following slide gives some information about the history of both, can you find out more?

Main points to include:

• Established since 1856 by Thomas Burberry in Basingstoke Hampshire

• In 1880 Burberry introduced the brand gabardine

• In 1891 Burberry opened a shop in the Haymarket London and began to be known as Burberrys of London

• One of the largest retailers in the world it specialises in men’s, women’s, children's clothing, accessories and perfumes

• It has almost 500 locations world wide

• It is a Public Limited Company (PLC) and therefore owned by shareholders

• In 2013 Romeo Beckham modelled for the company.

• In 2013 the company made pre-tax profits of over £350 million

• ...and anything else that's interesting!

• https://uk.burberry.com/our-history/

•Founded in 1911 it was originally built on the site of a Victorian slaughter house and was know as Pontefract and District Girls High School.

• It became a coeducational sixth form school known as Park High School in 1978• In 1987 it became North East Wakefield’s sixth form college known as NEW College.• In 1911 it has an intake of 53 girls today it has an intake of over 2000 sixth form students from the 5 towns area and beyond.• NC has over 176 staff•It offers a wide range of GCEs and BTEC subjects

•...and anything else that's interesting!

What to do with your research information

Now you have completed your research into New College Pontefract and Burberry Plc, complete two paragraphs explaining who they are and include the background and history of both.

Activity/Purpose

Now that you have carried out your research and written up your findings about New College Pontefract and Burberry plc can you decide what their activity is.

In other words –• what do New College Pontefract and Burberry plc do every day, what is

their purpose?

In your next paragraph for unit 1 can you write two sentences to describe what the activity of each business is?

Aims and Objectives

I am sure you have been introduced to the BBC Bitesize website while at your high school. Use this website, and their GCSE Business pages to read and make some notes about aims and objectives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/z9gcd2p/revision/1

Burberry and New College –Aims and Objectives

And finally for unit 1 for the summer ….

Using the information from the BBC Bitesize pages, and the information from the previous slide add to the sentences you have written about the activity of New College Pontefract and Burberry plc to describe what an aim and an objective is and give examples of both New College Pontefract and Burberry plc aims and objectives.

You can handwrite this but it would be more useful to type it using a computer so that you can save and later email to your New College Pontefract account in September.

Well done and see you in September

Congratulations you have now completed work that will go towards your coursework for Unit 1 P1.