Business and Enterprise

As a Business and Enterprise College, Flegg High School uses its specialist status to raise standards of achievement and the quality of learning for all our pupils. Business-related subjects contribute to improvements throughout the school by developing innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Our status enables us to enrich our pupils’ experience through enterprise activities, studies of business economics and opportunities to follow a range of work-related learning pathways.

The College aims to raise the post-16 participation rate in our specialist subject areas, and to provide young people with the skills needed to enter employment, self-employment, vocational training or higher education according to their individual aptitudes and ambitions.

We aim to become active partners with local schools and communities in a learning society, sharing and developing resources and good practice.  We are working in partnership with the wider community, including commerce and industry, to enhance opportunities for lifelong learning in the context of business and enterprise.

As a Business and Enterprise Specialist College, you can expect Flegg High School to offer:

Specialist Subjects

  • A wide choice of business-related subjects, with targets set at all key stages.
  • A high status for all vocational courses.
  • Citizenship education, including emphasis on understanding of economics.
  • A significant business and enterprise dimension in mathematics and ICT courses.

A Broad Curriculum

  • “Interconnectedness” – a key factor in schools’ improvement.
  • The integration of business and enterprise studies with all other school subjects.
  • A constant focus on techniques of teaching and learning.

Enterprise Activities

  • The development of relevant skills, including entrepreneurship, team work, problem-solving, evaluation, decision-making, creativity, languages and communication –
  • The establishment of commercial links to all school subjects –
  • Involvement with national initiatives and competitions.

Community Partnership

  • The development and use of natural and genuine links with local business and industry.
  • Projects designed in partnership, reflecting mutual need and benefit.
  • The identification and provision of appropriate learning opportunities for specific groups in the wider community, based on external data such as that of the Learning & Skills Council.

Innovative Practice

  • The encouragement of “big ideas” among pupils.
  • Individual initiatives which “make a difference” to teaching and learning.

Post-16 and Employment Skills

  • The careful preparation of students for their part in the “knowledge economy”.
  • A continuing partnership with our pupils after they leave Flegg High School.
  • Active involvement with the needs and aspirations of the wider adult community in the fields of business and enterprise.