Snakes and Ladders

Posting by Ranjit Hayer, Business Studies teacher

My A2 Business Studies students borrowed an idea from A level Law this week by adapting a popular children’s board game to help them with their studies.

Snakes and Ladders was the game and the students split into groups to complete the exercise. They all wrote their own Business Studies-related questions and answers, which focussed on topics like production methods, costings, economies of scale, business objectives and other issues covered in the course. These questions were tested on opposing groups as they shook the dice and played Snakes and Ladders.

It was a really fun way of helping the students to get to grips with the complex subject matter and of course there was more than a little element of chance involved too. The teams were really competitive and more than one roll of the dice saw the teams slipping down the board on a snake!

It was all in good fun, but there’s a hidden agenda too, as it was a good way to get the students to think about their revision without being boring. Fingers crossed it has helped; they now simply need to revise!! Good luck to them!