EDUQAS GCSE MEDIA STUDIES STARTERS PUPIL BOOKLET
30 starter activities, largely based around Component 1, media language and theory.
Example tasks: match-ups, wordsearches, labelling, media language alphabet, true or false, quiz etc.
Last 5 pages have generic recall grids, again used as starters to test pupils’ short and long term knowledge of the set texts.
I use the booklet with year 10, as ‘silent’ starters.
PDF also uploaded, to preserve formatting.
Might save you a load of time and effort…!
EDUQAS GCSE MEDIA STUDIES THIS GIRL CAN
Teaching PowerPoint (270 slides) divided into three sections:
PART 1: Contexts
PART 2: Media language (including media theories)
PART 3: Representation and comparing two texts
Pupil workbook (17 pages) to accompany tasks in Parts 1 - 3 of the PowerPoint.
Pupil booklet uploaded as a PDF also, to retain formatting.
Will save you loads of planning time!
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies, Component 2, Taylor Swift ‘The Man’
A 28 page pupil booklet, to accompany a 367 slide PowerPoint.
PDF and adaptable Word document of the pupil booklet included, to maintain formatting.
Information content largely based on the Eduqas factsheet, with additional research articles and video embedded.
PowerPoint transitions used to enhance whiteboard teaching.
Whole class plenary and analytical activities included in the pupil booklet, to work alongside the PowerPoint sections.
Covers:
Key facts
Contexts
Industry
Audience
Media Language
Representation
Website and Social Media
Hopefully it will safe someone LOADS of time!
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies
NEA Component 3 Horror Film Posters (Cohort 2025 brief 2)
Basic pupil booklet for pupils to research and plan their DVD and film poster.
Includes pages for pupils to make their notes on:
typical codes and conventions of horror
typical iconography
example horror film posters to annotate
space to plan out a DVD and film poster
blurb
their coversheet notes
a checklist of what to include in their products
Pupil booklets to support Component 1 and Component 2 of Eduqas GCSE Media Studies, covering:
Quality Street
This Girl Can
GQ
The Archers
The Guardian
The Sun
Fortnite
Luther
The Sweeney
Covers a range of the academic content of Eduqas Fact Sheets, as well as linked classroom activities.
Thought they would be useful to someone, somewhere!
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies, Component 2, Stormzy ‘Superheroes’
A 44 page pupil booklet, to accompany a 180 slide PowerPoint.
PDF and adaptable Word document of the pupil booklet included, to maintain formatting.
Information content largely based on the Eduqas factsheet, with additional research articles and video embedded.
PowerPoint transitions used to enhance whiteboard teaching.
Whole class plenary and analytical activities included in the pupil booklet, to work alongside the PowerPoint sections.
Covers:
Key facts
Contexts
Industry
Audience
Media Language
Representation
Website and Social Media
Hopefully it will safe someone LOADS of time!
DVD COVER AND FILM POSTER TEMPLATE
A simple guide for pupils to know where each of the typical conventions of a DVD jewel case and film poster (portrait) would go.
Useful if pupils are making their own.
Uploaded as PDF, Word and PowerPoint.
A comprehensive booklet and staff PowerPoint for pupils working towards Component 3 of the Eduqas GCSE Media Studies qualification. Focuses on the film marketing action genre brief (cohort 2022) and the creation of a DVD jewel case and theatrical film release poster.
Includes advice on research, codes and conventions, detailed planning stages and Statement of Aims.
A comprehensive booklet for pupils working towards Component 3 of the Eduqas GCSE Media Studies qualification. Focuses on the film marketing thriller genre brief and the creation of a DVD jewel case and theatrical film release poster.
Includes advice on research, codes and conventions, detailed planning stages and Statement of Aims.
EDUQAS GCSE MEDIA STUDIES SET TEXT RECALL GRIDS
Used as starters / bell tasks with KS4 Media Studies pupils.
38 slides, including answers (yellow slides).
Questions range from 1 - 4 marks.
Questions mainly cover Component 1, Sections A and B.
Obviously, adaptable to suit pupil ability.
Pupils given a little booklet containing multiple blank versions of the grid, to use at the start of each lesson.
Peer marking.
Pupils who achieve over 20 / 24 marks (depending on ability) get a chocolate biscuit! Has worked wonders for years!
EDUQAS GCSE MEDIA STUDIES
COMPONENT 1, SECTION B: THE ARCHERS
Teaching PowerPoint (320 slides) and accompanying pupil booklet (18 pages)
Includes:
Part 1: Introduction to radio
Part 2: Social, historical and cultural contexts
Part 3: Funding, regulation and production process
Part 4: Convergence, Technology and webiste
Part 5: Audiences
Part 6: Episode study (Helen and Rob)
Part 7: Revision and recall
Part 8: Assessment
PDF and Word version of the pupil booklet included.
Plenty of AFL, recall and differentiation along the way.
Save yourself the planning time!