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Reading Recommendation: The Accounting Game makes learning accounting fast, fun, and unforgettable. This bestselling guide uses the story of a child’s lemonade stand to teach real-world accounting basics, without the confusing jargon.

Video Recommendation: Accounting 101 by the ‘Accounting Teacher’ is a series of 10 introductory YouTube videos that introduce the main concepts of the course. These are useful to watch as pre-learning or as support throughout your first year of study.

Wider Learning: Top performing Accounting students have a good understanding of finance in the real world. Follow this link and sign up to follow the blogs to start learning about financial current affairs.  

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Reading Recommendation: Shoe Dog is a memoir by the Creator of Nike. This is a honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like. It’s a humble, gutsy memoir detailing risks and daunting setbacks as well as the triumphs along the way.

Video Recommendation: Watch this interview with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.  He discusses Meta’s strategy, he shares stories from Facebook’s history and discusses his thoughts on the future of AI.

Wider Learning: All students studying Business need to be aware of global business events that change the way we work and live, and how these changes can impact the very subject you are studying. Read more here.

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Reading Recommendation: A fantastic and humorous introduction to Economic theory. The Undercover Economist applies Economics to everyday situations – it’ll prove just how much you already know about the subject!

Video Recommendation: The Freakonomics Radio Network YouTube is a multimedia franchise that applies economic theory and data analysis to unconventional, everyday subjects to uncover the “hidden side of everything”

Wider Learning: Top performing Economics students have a good grasp of current affairs. Follow this link to start researching global economic events.

Video Recommendation: The Secret Life of Pronouns: James Pennebaker at TEDxAustin Links to the topics covered on the course like power and identity

Reading Recommendation: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a novel that you will read in Year 12 – make a head start on your studies by reading it over the summer holidays.

Listening Recommendation: Radio 4 Bookclub podcasts have a wide range of interviews with renowned authors, including Alice Sebold. Listen here now.

Wider Learning: Reading a criminal profiling website before the course gives you a head start on The Lovely Bones by helping you recognise how the murderer’s behaviour mirrors real‑world offender traits, making him more chillingly believable and grounding the novel in realistic psychological detail.

Reading Recommendation: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is the first text you will be studying – make a head start on your studies by reading it over the summer holidays.

Listening Recommendation: Each episode of The New Yorker Fiction Podcast features a reading of a short story and conversation with some of the most renowned, exciting, and accomplished writers working today. It provides an insight into how writers inspire each other with their work.

Wider Learning: The British Library is the largest library and archive in the country! Their website has a range of articles and resources relating to literary criticism that is invaluable to an English Literature student. Explore this website for articles on specific writers, genres, literary movements and much more!

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Reading Recommendation: No and Me is the English equivalent of the book we study for the literature element of the course. We will read it in French in Year 13, and a good understanding of the English version will support your studies

Video Recommendation: 1jour1actu offers short videos on a wide variety of topics that we study, with visual information to help you understand. This is excellent preparation for speaking the language, where you will be expected to talk about French current affairs.

Wider Learning: Read or listen to any French news, even if it is difficult – it gets easier with practice! You don’t want to go “rusty” over the long summer holiday. Radio France and Écouter franceinfo en direct, la radio d’info de Radio France are good places to start.

Reading Recommendation: In Step by Step: The Life in My Journeys, Simon Reeve shares more about his travels around the world and finds out about local and global issues. Easy reading but a really good introduction to the world!

Listening Recommendation: In the 80 Days | an exploration podcast, every episode takes you to a little-known country, territory, settlement or city and explores the history, culture and people of each place over approximately an hour and a half.   

Wider Learning: Our World in Data provides insights into global and regional trends – everything from world population to natural hazards to pollution to poverty and wealth in different countries. Time for Geography video clips explores physical geography, human geography, and also shares lots of good careers advice. 

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Reading Recommendation: This book provides a solid academic introduction to the Buddha, his life and teachings that segues directly into the first delivered content and effort, skills and knowledge induction task.

Video Recommendation: Philosophy Ninja – YouTube covers the entire philosophy and ethics specification and is produced by one of the chief examiners of Eduqas, making it a very valuable resource that can support your learning throughout the course.

Wider Learning: BuddhaNet – Worldwide Buddhist Information and Education Network is a comprehensive website that explores all aspects of Buddhism, complete with podcasts, an e-library and study resources.

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Reading Recommendation: The House of Bernarda Alba is the English version of a classic Spanish play you will study in Year 13. Reading this will provide you with a good understanding of the play that will support your studies

Video Recommendation: Watching short video clips about current affairs in Spanish will help you to understand Spanish current affairs. It is important to keep reading and listening skills active over the long holidays so you don’t go “rusty”.

Wider Learning: Grammar (especially verbs) are essential to success at A Level. Practice online using websites such as (tbc)

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Reading Recommendation: The Personal MBA gives you simple mental models for every subject that’s key to commercial success. From the basics of products and marketing to the nuances of teamwork and systems, this book distils everything you need to know to take on the MBA graduates and win.

Video Recommendation: How I built this by Guy Raz is a podcast that focuses on entrepreneurs’ stories and businesses are actually built.

Wider Learning: All students studying business need to be aware of global business events that change the way we work/live and how these changes can impact the very subject you are studying.

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Reading Recommendation: Angela Gallop is the most famous forensic scientist in Britain. In this book, she discusses a range of cases she was involved in, and how forensic science led to breakthroughs in identifying suspects and building a criminal case against them. 

Listening Recommendation: The Cambridge Institute of Criminology Podcast compromises of lectures and seminars on criminology. It considers interesting topics such as the importance of the probation service, police uniforms and why they wear them, as well as addressing institutional racism and the case of George Floyd.  

Wider Learning: Criminology students need to stay up to date with topics in criminology, public concerns and examples of criminal behaviour. Read about news in West Yorkshire via the BBC website.

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Reading Recommendation: You Deserve Good Gelato is a collection of personal essays that tell Kacie’s story and empower you to challenge yourself. This is a candid outlook on life as an expat, covering everything from the terror of driving on Italian roads to the trials of speaking a new language and the genuine beauty of a slower pace of life.

Listening Recommendation: The Travel Diaries Podcast is listened to in over 160 countries every month. Each week, travel and entertainment journalist Holly Rubenstein interviews a different high profile traveller about the seven travel chapters of their life, uncovering the seminal travel experiences that have shaped who they are today.

Wider Learning: Visit Travel Weekly to keep up to date with what’s happening in the world of travel and tourism.