Queen Margaret College

Year 10 Business & Economics

Middle Years Programme International Baccalaureate Unit

Internal features of a small business

Business activity – Market Day

External features of a small business

Human Resources

Course details

Terms 2 – 3

Term 3-4

No Assessment

Business is the study of decision making within an organisation. It examines how business decisions are influenced by factors internal and external to an organisation, and how these decisions impact upon its stakeholders, both internally and externally.1

The course is designed to teach the basic principles of business. Students work in a combination of individual and group work in a creative and collaborative way, in much the same way that most businesses operate. Topics will investigate the role of a responsible consumer, skills to operate a micro business such as mark-up, profit and cashflow. How producers are influenced by changes in technology and how they innovate to get ahead of the competition, and the different qualities that successful entrepreneurs possess.

Term 2 and 3 will see students create their own business that involves students researching and deciding on a product, writing a business plan and launching it in an oral presentation competition. Students work in teams to create a hypothetical product, set up a company and prepare a business strategy to produce and sell their product.

Course Information:

• Students in Year 10 have four lessons each fortnight.

• Workbooks are provided but lined and graph paper is needed as well as something to organise the years notes into

• Teams and OneNote is used for sharing of documents, links and uploading of projects

Homework expectations

Students should complete at least 90 minutes per weeknight across all subjects and separate to this is the Community Project during Terms 2 and 3.

Head of Learning Area: Adrian Hardy

Queen Margaret College

Year 10 Chinese Programme 2023

Levels 2-3 of the New Zealand Curriculum

Phases 2-3 of the Middle Years Programme

Unit Title

School and extra-curricular life

Birthday celebration

Land, People and Travel

Health, Leisure & culture

Course details

Students will study the following topics:

• School and extra-curricular life

- school & school life in NZ and China

- extra-curricular activities

• Birthday celebration

- organising and holding a birthday party

- conventions of birthday celebration

• Land, People and Travel

- Cultural exchange

• Health, leisure & culture

- Leisure activities, sickness and health

- cultural celebration events

Course Information:

International Baccalaureate

Proposed assessment date

In the final two weeks of each Term, Students will be assessed on the language skills they have developed throughout the unit. Listening, reading, writing, and speaking will each be assessed twice during the year.

• In 2023, Year 10 Chinese Class is an option subject.

• Each class has 6 lessons per 10-day timetable for the whole year.

Homework expectations

Students are expected to complete some homework during the week. Your child should be learning at home for a total of 90 minutes per weeknight across all subjects and separate to this is the Community Project during Terms 2 and 3. The key to language learning is ‘little and often’. Homework might include:

• Learning a few words, verbs or phrases

• Sentence or text level of activities, such as Jigsaw activities, cloze exercises etc.

• Reading and grammar exercises to do or a short paragraph to write

• Before an assessment, students will be expected to revise their notes or to practise their spoken Chinese

• Revision of vocabulary learned in class with www.educationperfect.com

• Catching up on work missed due to absence

Students will purchase a Year 10 Chinese Workbook at a cost of around $10.

Head of Learning Area: Caroline Harding