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Media

Subject Leader - Lois Aziz

Curriculum Intent:

At Weavers Academy, our Media Studies Team aim to inspire our Post 16 students to become critical, creative, and culturally aware individuals who can navigate and influence the modern media landscape. We want every student to enjoy learning and feel confident in analysing and producing media texts. Our curriculum fosters curiosity, independence, and resilience, while promoting creativity and technical proficiency.

We follow the Creative Education Trust framework and uphold our school values: PRIDE – Productivity, Respect, Independence, Determination, and Engagement. This means we encourage students to work hard, respect themselves and others, take responsibility for their learning, persevere through challenges, and actively participate in lessons and enrichment activities.

We also prepare students for life beyond school by developing employability skills such as digital literacy, problem-solving, collaboration, and leadership. Our curriculum is inclusive and adaptive, ensuring all students can access and thrive.

KS5

 

Specification: A-level Media Studies 7572 | Specification | AQA

This qualification is linear. Linear means that students will sit all their exams and submit all their non-exam assessment at the end of the course.

Subject content:

1. Media language

2. Media representation

3. Media industries

4. Media audiences

Assessment:

Curriculum Map:

  Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2
Year 12

Introduction to Media Language & Media Representations (Media One) - Looking at print and moving adverts

Score and Sephora Black is Beauty

Application of Theory – Television – (Media Two)

Capital and Deutschland 83

Introduction to Media Industry and Media Audience (Media One) - Newspaper and Magazine

Daily Mail/Guardian

GQ/Gentlewoman

Media Audience and Industries

Music Video – The Specials – Ghost Town/Little Nas – Old Town Road

Media Industries – Film

Blinded by the Light

Gaming – Horizon Forbidden West/The Simms

NEA – Plan and produce your own product
Year 13 NEA = Create and edit your own product for submission

Media Audiences and Industries

Radio – War of the Worlds/Newsbeat

Social Media – Taylor Swift

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