Y10 Business Studies visit West Ham Utd

Business Studies take every opportunity to exploit their industrial links, providing pupils with a richer experience from which to draw for their coursework. Fortunately, we are well positioned at Cumberland School and find ourselves within a short distance of a number of high profile organisations.

Today Ms Lewis took a group of Year 10 BTEC candidates to West Ham Utd, where pupils saw at first hand the multitude of ways that the football club generates income. A tour took in the home and away changing rooms, the director's stand, the director's box, a hotel room, the press room, a functions suite, the bar and reception, as well as the pitch edge. The hosts, Tom and Nadirah, were fabulous and regaled pupils with countless interesting facts - including, to Georgia's amazement, that the grass on the pitch can be heated up using underground heating!!

Business Studies Educational Visit to Tate and Lyle

In December the BTEC Business Studies candidates visited Tate and Lyle Sugars as part of their course. This was one of a number of educational visits that pupils take part in to help them contextualise the work they produce for their examination coursework.

Yasmin said, “it was incredible to see the whole process, from the raw material being delivered in a ship and stored in heaps in a shed, right through to the packets of sugar being packaged ready to be delivered to the supermarket – now I understand why there are always ships moored on that part of the river – I never knew before!”.

Jordi thought, “the most interesting thing about the visit was to see how the whole production process was controlled and monitored from one room, on a series of computer monitors and controls, by just a couple of staff – I didn’t think it could be possible to control an enormous factory from just one computer room”.

It has already proved to be an invaluable experience as pupils have been able to include accounts of their visit in coursework produced since the visit.