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KS4 – Media

Subject Intent

We want our students to be confident critical thinkers and communicators of the world around them as the media has a real relevance and importance in their lives today. Our curriculum aims to challenge and inspire pupils thinking to question influences, messages, and meanings of the media. Our curriculum improves pupil’s communication skills, literacy, creativity, and analytical skills. This is evident through pupil’s study of media products focussing on the media industry, audiences and the of use of images, sounds, language, and representations to create meaning. Pupil’s will be confident in these key skills of critical thinking, analysing, and creating media products. These key exam skills are embedded in all that we do.

KS4 Subject Narrative

Our KS4 course focuses on depth of knowledge and the key skills of analysing images, messages and meaning and creating media products. Students are introduced to the key areas of the theoretical framework for studying media – media language, representation, media industries and audiences – in relation to diverse examples from a modern and historically wide range of media forms: advertising and marketing, film, magazines, music video, newspapers, online media, radio, television and video games.

Year 10 – Please click here to view the curriculum map for year 10 Media
Year 11 – Please click here to view the curriculum map for year 11 Media

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