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Media Studies
Our curriculum is designed to develop students’ ability to critically engage with a wide range of media forms and products, both contemporary and historical.
Media studies will equip students with essential skills, cultural awareness, and media literacy, empowering them to think critically, analyse and evaluate diverse media forms, and engage in creative media production.
It aims to do this by fostering inclusivity and encouraging innovation, Media Studies prepares students to navigate and shape the media landscape of tomorrow.
KS4
In Key Stage 4 students have the option to choose GCSE Media Studies. Students will build on the analytical skills that they have developed throughout Key Stage 3 English to analyse media products like films, television programmes and music videos, and their use of images, sound, language, and representations to create meaning. Students will explore the media industry and how the industry affects how media products are made. Students will investigate media audiences, exploring who watches, reads and consumes the products, and consider how different people might be affected by media products differently, and why. Students will build on the digital images knowledge and skills that they acquired during Key Stage 3 Computer Science and learn how to construct their own media products such as magazines, music videos, television programmes and film marketing.
KS5
In Key Stage 5 students have the opportunity to study A Level Media Studies onsite at our Littlehampton Academy College. Students will explore and apply critical perspectives including key media and cultural theorists, and will examine how social, historical, economic and political contexts affect the construction of media productions. Students will carry out in-depth analyses of a range of global media products. Students will also have the opportunity to apply what you have learned through the construction of their own media products, exploring and creating media forms such as music videos, magazines, television, websites and film marketing.
Exam board(s):
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies
Eduqas A Level Media Studies


