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The King John School

Media Studies

Media Studies

We teach Media to

  • Ensure our student are media literate; inquisitive & questioning
  • Create autonomous learners that actively seek out information and discussion about the ever-changing media landscape
  • Question Media texts: who made them? What is their agenda?
  • Develop students highly skilled in digital technology
  • Develop creativity across a range of media productions (print, online and broadcast)
  • Engage with, understand and be able to apply key concepts such as – ideology, spectatorship, narrative theories etc to media and film texts.
  • Skill students in debate and put forth arguments in discursive essays, informed by academic writings
  • Prepare students for further studies, or working in media / film industries
  • Enhance knowledge and understanding of different cultures and social, political, cultural and historical contexts
  • Be able to analyse how media language communicates meaning and generates response and be able to apply theoretical media-based concepts in written essays

Curriculum Map

Year 10 Media Studies

Year 11 Film

Year 11 Media Studies

Year 12 and 13 BTEC Media

Year 12 Media

Year 13 Media