Curriculum Intent Statement

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Students engage with contemporary texts and issues that inform their viewpoint on the world. (Community) 

• Students become independent and critical thinkers. 

• Students develop knowledge about a broad range of engaging and relevant media texts. 

• Students are able to bring in their own knowledge of the media from personal experience into lessons. Sometimes, they are given choice about texts / projects. 

• Students become media literate, able to explore the digital world with confidence and recognise manipulation/bias

 

Students develop media skills that prepare them for their exams and future academic careers. (Opportunity)

• Students become critical thinkers with skills that crossover to other subject areas, such as sociology, psychology, business, history.

• Students can write and structure in a thoughtful way that will crossover with other subject areas. 

• GCSE students are appropriately prepared for A Level, and A Level for Degree. 

• Students are given opportunities to use creative software such as Adobe suite and Canva. 

 

Students are prepared to work in the world of media. (Opportunity and Community)

• Students develop real-life skills and relevant knowledge. Teachers relate topics to the working world and develop tasks providing real world experiences. 

• Students are given opportunities to learn about the working world from outside speakers, work experience contacts and careers advice. 

• Students can develop further skills through working with Weald TV and Radio Weald.

 

In Media our main regular adaptations are:

• Use of visualisers to provide explicit live modelling and WAGOLLS

• Using visual learning - images, videos, websites

• Use of vocabulary and supportive sentence stems/paragraph acronyms (writing KO to follow in summer 2024)

• Verbal feedback and questioning to check, clarify and extend understanding - frequent use of Red Review as starters with whiteboards

• Modelling confident use of media specific language and terminology

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