Recent Achievements

Young Enterprise: Innovation Award - 2025

King's College Cambridge Essay Competition winner - 2024

Published article in the Professional Body magazine 2024

Young Enterprise: Lancashire Company of the Year Award - 2023

LUMS 100 Day Entrepreneurship Challlenge - winners 2023

Business & Management - top candidate in the country 2018 & 2019

Moneywise Finance teacher of the year ‘Judges Award’ 2019 (RW)

National finalists in the ICAEW BASE competition on two occasions

Regional & National finalists in the LiBF Student Investor competition

Regional Finalists in the Target 2.0 BoE competition

EBEA department Quality Mark accredited

Department Facilities

The Business & Economics Department sits in a new area in Old School House.  There are three classrooms and a staff office. 

Department results and pupil numbers

Results across the department are excellent. In Business, examination results are consistently above the LRGS average, with value added amongst the very best in the school. Economics results are also extremely strong, with 90.5% of students achieving grades A*–B in 2026, alongside 81.6% of Business students. The department continues to flourish and this is reflected in pupil uptake. Over half of the entire Sixth Form now take Business or Economics and it is the biggest humanity/social science department in the sixth form.

Business & Economics - Staff Overview

Jonathan Remmington, Head of Department BA (Hons), PGCE in Business Education from the University of Manchester, PG Cert (SpLD) Dyslexia with AMBDA from Edge Hill University. Jonathan is Head of Business and Economics and teaches both subjects. He is an examiner for both A-level Economics and A-level Business and has extensive teaching experience in the UK, Australia and Singapore. A qualified specialist dyslexia teacher and assessor, Jonathan also holds professional qualifications in supporting and assessing learners with specific learning difficulties. Alongside his teaching, he promotes enterprise and enrichment across the department, coordinating competitions and initiatives that enable students to apply their learning beyond the classroom. This includes the Company Programme, trading club and Cambridge Economics Challenge.

Russell Wareing B Ec (Hons) Murdoch University, W Australia; Grad Dip Ed Curtin University, W Australia. Russell teaches A Level Economics and coaches the football squad. Until recently he was the Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Pre-U in Business & Management. He is currently an exam reviser for an overseas Business Studies paper. He has had a variety of articles published in both the Business Review and the EBEA magazine. He also led a two year Erasmus+ project with some European partner schools. The focus was on personal finance education.

Sarah Taylor BA (Hons) in International Business Management, PGCE Leeds Beckett University, SCITT Ripley St Thomas. Sarah is a teacher of Business Studies and a form tutor to a Year 12 group. She is currently pursuing a Master's in Education with Northumbria University. Her teaching experience spans boarding schools and sixth form colleges, where she has not only cultivated a passion for guiding students in their academic and personal growth but enjoyed fostering teamwork through sports coaching, having been involved in Netball and Tennis. Sarah leads the 10X enterprise competition to KS4 students to give them the opportunity to learn about business.
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A-level Business 

The department follows the eduqas A-level Business Studies. This is a linear course with 3 examinations. The course details can be found here.

A Level Economics 

The department follows the Edexcel syllabus. In total four units are studied and these are examined at the end of the second year through three exams.  The course is linear. 

For more details on the curriculum, visit the Edexcel web site

 

Business & Economics Extracurricular

Students within the department are encouraged to get involved in the various enterprise schemes and competitions. This is a core feature. 

Trips

The department offers a wide range of opportunities for students to extend their learning beyond the classroom. An overseas trip is organised each year, with recent and planned destinations including Berlin in 2025 and New York in December 2026. Students also take part in a range of local visits and benefit from guest speakers from Lancaster University, alongside engagement with leading businesses and organisations such as PwC. These opportunities allow students to apply their classroom learning to real-world Business and Economics and gain an insight into different industries, organisations and career pathways.