Hellesdon High School

Year 13

 

  Topic(s) Key content to be learned Assessment

Autumn Term

4.1 – Globalisation

  • Globalisation
  • Specialisation and trade
  • Terms and pattern of trade
  • Trade blocs and the W.T.O
  • Protectionism/restrictions on free trade
  • Diagnostic multiple choice quizzes to test knowledge
  • In-class assessment (verbal and written questions)
  • Homework (timed exam questions)

Written assessments (multiple choice questions, short answer questions, diagram manipulation and calculations)

4.2 – Poverty and inequality

  • Absolute and relative poverty
  • Inequality

4.3 – Emerging and developing economies

  • Measures of development
  • Factors and strategies influencing growth and development

4.5 – Role of the state in the macroeconomy

  • Public sector finances (government spending and taxation)
  • Macroeconomic policies in a global context

3.2 – Business objectives

  • Business objectives
3.3 – Revenues, costs and profits
  • Revenue, costs and profit
  • Economies and diseconomies of scale

Spring Term

 

3.4 – Market structures

 

  • Efficiency
  • Perfect competition
  • Monopolistic competition
  • Oligopoly
  • Monopoly
  • Monopsony
  • Contestability
  • Diagnostic multiple choice quizzes to test knowledge
  • In-class assessment (verbal and written questions)
  • Homework (timed exam questions)

Written assessment (multiple choice questions, short answer questions, diagram manipulation and calculations)

3.5 – Labour market

  • Demand for labour
  • Supply of labour
  • Wage determination

3.6 – Government intervention

  • Government intervention
PPE exams – papers 1 and 2

Summer Term

 

3.6 - Government intervention (continued)

  • The impact of government intervention
  • In-class assessment (verbal and written questions)

 

 

*Final exam practice

  • *Final exam practice
Paper 3 mock exam