Business Education

There are four teachers in the Business Education and ICT Awareness department. These are:

• Mr D Park (Faculty Head)
• Mrs C MacPhee
• Mrs L Kerr
• Mrs C Flanagan
• Mrs J Martin
• Miss L Wright

Mission Statement and Aims of the Business Education & ICT Department
To provide a motivating and stimulating environment in which to educate pupils to a high standard and to enable them to reach their full potential in the areas of:

• Business Management
• Accounts
• Admin & IT
• S1-S2 ICT 

This will offer pupils practical real life relevance within a Business environment.

 

Aims for Business Education and ICT 

• To enable pupils to have real life experiences as to how Business organisations work, develop and plan for the future.
• Encourage pupils to evaluate alternative approaches and practices business can consider.
• Develop business, financial, administrative and ICT analyse in pupils through problem solving activities, which involve a range of contexts, up to date business examples, materials and methodology and lead to high quality practical portfolio results and investigations.
• To encourage pupils to achieve high standards of quality through feedback of all their work.
• Give pupils the opportunity to develop practical skills and the confidence in information technology, delivering presentations, business enterprise.
• Give pupils the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding and deliver their evidence in a variety of outcome methods.
• Encourage pupils' planning, organisational, critical and analytical abilities, enabling them to make relevant evaluations.
• Provide pupils with opportunities to work effectively both as individuals and as part of a team developing their self-confidence, prioritisation and team building skills.
• Enable pupils to make sensible, appropriate and challenging choices as informed consumers.
• To help pupils understand that business organisations have moral, cultural as well social dimensions.