Our Further Learning Recommendations
We have shared additional curriculum resources to help your child excel in their learning.
Doing
Cadbury World is a visitor attraction in Birmingham, featuring a self-guided exhibition tour, created and run by the Cadbury Company. The tour tells the history of chocolate, and of the Cadbury business.
Ever wondered how products in your online shopping cart get from Amazon to you? Book a free tour and see how our people and technology deliver for customers.
Watching and Listening
Podcast Wake up to Money – Radio 5 live
News and views on business and the world of personal finance. Plus the very latest from the financial markets around the globe.
Sir Alan Sugar tests the nerves and brains of the hungriest hopefuls in the business world as they compete to win a six-figure salary job as his apprentice
Budding entrepreneurs get three minutes to pitch their business ideas to five multimillionaires who are willing to invest their own cash.
Read High Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best by Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes, a book that reveals the methods the world’s most remarkable athletes, coaches and entrepreneurs use to excel.
Shoe Dog
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight is a memoir from the founder of Nike. A book rich with insight, humour and hard-won wisdom, it is also studded with lessons – about building something from scratch, overcoming adversity, and ultimately leaving your mark on the world.
The Business Book
The Business Book is a plain-speaking visual guide to 80 of the most important commerce theories including critical path analysis, market mapping, and the MABA matrix.
Read The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford. Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways, this is a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai.
Freakonomics
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is a million selling modern classic. Assume nothing and question everything is the message at the heart of this book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that will turn your view of the world upside-down.
Soccornomics
Soccernomics Simon Kuper is is a statistical study of the world’s most popular sport in the vein of Steven Levitt’s bestseller Freakonomics.