Business Studies display coursework at Tate and Lyle

Hendry Amiryan accompanied Ms Lewis to put up a display of his class' BTEC Business coursework at Tate and Lyle in Silvertown today. The work was carried out after an educational visit to Tate and Lyle in December. Year 10 wanted employees and visitors to the factory to see how their coursework had benefitted from the educational visit, enabling pupils to better visualise and understand the issues they had to analyse in their work.

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.