Media Studies Department

Staffing

The Media Department is part of the Performing Arts faculty consisting of 8 staff delivering across the full age range 11-19.

Mr S Speight – Director of Creative and PE (Music Teacher)
Miss N Castleden – Curriculum Leader of Performing Arts (Drama Teacher)
Mrs L O’Connor – Deputy Headteacher (Drama Teacher)
Mrs C James – Music teacher
Mr B Mungovin – Music teacher
Mrs R Jones – Music and Drama teacher
Mrs R Ross – Drama teacher
Performing Arts technician – Mr J Lawson

Media Studies
Students discover and understand work based on a wide variety of subject matters, multi media & genre. At Key Stage 4&5 students cover a variety of schemes that drive and accelerate learning. During the lessons students are encouraged to explore a range of perspectives to develop their compassion and empathy for others. Again students interrogate and create work that inspires and provokes thought and reasoning. Students regularly reflect on their work, demonstrating their willingness to improve and progress. Work created is designed to educate and share knowledge and understanding provoking in depth questioning that leads to understanding the diversity within school.

Resources

We are able to utilise the full benefits of a multi million pound building that we first occupied in 2011. There are 3 specialist media suits with the latest software to design and model multimedia creativity.

Curriculum

All students are taught Media in mixed ability sets across the key stages. At GCSE the students are entered for the following qualifications:

Media Studies – WJEC

At A’ Level students are entered for the following qualifications:

Media Studies – WJEC

Media Studies Resources