Media is taught by:

Mr S Ravendran      

CTL Media      

Curriculum Overview - KS4  

 

Course Title

Exam Board

Assessment Components & Method (Exam/NEA %)

When is the Component Assessed? (e.g. Summer GCSE)

GCSE Media Studies

Eduqas

30% Component 3: Creating Media Products 

Non-exam assessment 

 

70% Exam divided into

  • Component 1 ‘Exploring the Media’ (40%)
  • Component 2 ‘Understanding Media Forms and Products’ worth (30%)

Y10 Summer term

Y11 Summer GCSE

Creative iMedia 

OCE Cambridge Nationals

70% Non Examined Assessment (NEA) unit (internally assessed) consisting of two projects

  • R094 Visual identity and digital graphics (30%)
  • R095: Characters and comics (40%) 
 

30% External assessment R093: Creative iMedia in the media industry 

Y10 Autumn R094

Y10Summer R095

Y11 Summer R093

Accessibility & Inclusion

  • Adaptive seating plans
  • Targeted questioning
  • Colourful semantic keywords to support vocabulary acquisition and understanding 
  • Modified Tier 3 specialist keyword list to support cognitive overload and exam access 
  • Adapted knowledge checker to support recall and retrieval 

Home learning (frequency and expectations)

Homework is set fortnightly using Google classroom and erevision.  Parents can monitor the progress of students using the Media Studies website.  Students who do not complete classwork or homework are encouraged to remain after lessons to complete work. After School intervention sessions are held on Fridays and online intervention is currently running on Mondays from 6-7pm.

How parents/carers can support their child

 Possible careers

  • Media planner
  • Multimedia specialist
  • Programme researcher, broadcasting/film/video
  • Public relations officer
  • Runner, broadcasting/film/video
  • Social media manager
  • Television/film/video producer

Useful links

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/ztnygk7

https://media.edusites.co.uk/category/c/wjec-gcse-media-studies/ 

How parents or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum/syllabus you are following

http://www.wjec.co.uk/qualifications/media-studies/r-media-studies-gcse-2017