Business and Economics

Pupils studying both Economics and Business at A Level have been busy going far beyond the usual requirements of exam specifications. Our biggest-ever bumper edition of Peternomics arrived at St Peter’s at the start of the academic year, full of independently researched and extended pieces of writing from A Level pupils, covering a range of topics from the economics of Brexit to the future of cryptocurrencies. Many pupils also demonstrated independent drive and initiative by entering essay competitions across the year, such as the Young Economist of the Year and Cambridge University essay challenge.

“Many pupils also demonstrated independent drive and initiative.”

In the Easter term, Sixth Formers AJ Coates, Stephen Johnson, Matthew Shawcross and Guy Jenkins entered the BASE Competition, run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW), which is designed to engage pupils in business challenges to develop key skills in business, from communication to commercial awareness. In devising and delivering a presentation, the competition helped hone many skills, such as public speaking and presenting and enabled them to qualify and participate at the national finals in the summer. The annual Student Investor Challenge, always attracts many pupil entries and invites teams to enter a virtual £100,000 in the stock market and compete against over 25,000 other pupils from across the country to make the greatest return on their investment. One St Peter’s team, “Shocks and Stares”, made up of Charlotte Calvert, Ksenia Trubacheva, Sarah Sullivan and Sofiya Aleksandrova, qualified for the final stages of this national competition and faced further financial challenges including predicting stocks and shares valuations, really building up their knowledge of Economics in the real world.

Mr Ben White