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, 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!
The Little Book of Quotes
An A5 pupil booklet of key quotations, appropriate to AQA GCSE English Literature, Paper 1 and Paper 2:
Macbeth (by Act)
An Inspector Calls (by character)
A Christmas Carol (by character)
Conflict and Power Poetry (by poem)
Helpful for year 11 revision.
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
Taskmaster KS3 Fun Whole Class Games
A PowerPoint with 33 slides and 20 fun tasks.
Could be used as a plenary ‘treat’ or an end of term ‘fun’ lesson. (i.e. 'Sir, can we have a fun lesson today?)
Some tasks need a couple of props, others need nothing. Feel free to add your own challenges!
I’ve had great fun with these!
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.
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…!
Pupil booklet introducing fiction texts. Includes:
Writing openings to short stories
Assessing sample pupil extracts against GCSE writing criteria
Focus on ambitious vocabulary and sentence variety writing skills
Reading tasks linked to ‘The War of the Worlds’ and ‘The Woman in Black’
Writing to describe tasks
AQA GCSE LITERATURE DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES IN AN INSPECTOR CALLS
A straightforward one page A4 grid of dramatic, structure, form and language techniques used in the play ‘An Inspector Calls’. Helpful for revision, especially when blown up to A3.
PDF and Word versions uploaded (colour and black and white).
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!
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!
’Christmas Taskmaster’
Based on the comedy TV panel game show
Suitable for KS2 - 4
22 challenges included, although you could always adapt or add your own
Requires no preparation for challenge (apart from the odd biscuit and sheet of paper)
I’ve used these with my KS3 and KS4 classes for years. They make a fantastic, fun end to the year! Answers the age old question of, “Miss, are we having a fun lesson today?”
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!
AQA English Literature Key Vocabulary
Four A4 landscape pages of vocabulary for:
Macbeth
A Christmas Carol
An Inspector Calls
Power and Conflict Poetry
Handy for revision with year 11.
PDF and Word document included.
KS3 Class Text ‘Buddy’ by Nigel Hinton Pupil Booklet
A 28 page booklet, covering a range of reading and writing tasks to accompany reading the text.
Updated version, using Open Dyslexic font.
Suitable for LA pupils or year 7 / 8.
PDF and Word version uploaded.
Accompanying PowerPoint available on request.
AQA GCSE English Literaturee - How to write a ‘Macbeth’ (William Shakespeare) essay.
An 89 slide PowerPoint covering:
What to expect
How am I assessed?
How to plan
How to structure
How to write a paragraph
Introductions and conclusions
Used with my Year 10 and Year 11 mid-ability classes.
Uses transitions and animations, for use on whiteboards.
ALL of my teaching resources for Eduqas GCSE Media Studies James Bond set texts. Includes:
‘Introduction to Bond’ PowerPoint
‘The Man With the Golden Gun’ PowerPoint
‘No Time to Die’ PowerPoint
‘Bond websites’ PowerPoint
A pupil booklet, full of accompanying tasks and information to accompany each PowerPoint. (PDF included, to retain formatting).
Works best on full screen, for transitions.
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.
4 Excel sheets of ‘Quickfire’ starters, covering:
Literary devices
Spelling
Punctuation
Parts of speech
Sentences
12 task boxes per topic area.
Suitable for KS3 or as revision in KS4.
SmartBoard version available also, for whole class Q&Q.
‘Power and Conflict’ Poetry Homework Booklet - suitable for SEND or LA
Most suitable for year 10, as it only covers some of the poems studied so far:
Ozymandias
Bayonet Charge
Poppies
Kamikaze
Storm on the Island
Charge of the Light Brigade
Tasks include: Cloze procedure summaries, diary writing task, poetry writing, creative writing, drawing images associated with poems, identifying language devices, storyboarding and comparing poems.