School closed: what now?

With school now closed for the majority of students, we are going to have to make our GCSE Media lessons entirely blog-based for the next few weeks.

This won’t be too different to how we work normally – we’re lucky to have our blog system already set up and ready to go. The immediate priority is finishing our current unit, Advertising and Marketing, and getting through to Easter.

The first thing you need to do is check all the recent work is posted on your blog and complete. This means:

• Introduction to advertising: conventions
• Magazines assessment - learner response
• Gender in advertising tasks
• OMO CSP case study
• NHS Represent CSP case study

Most of you will have these done already but it’s worth checking first.

In terms of new Media work, from now on the week’s work will be emailed to you and put on the GCSE Media Year 1 blog. You can then work on that during the week – aim to have it posted on your blog by the following Monday. We’ll also email you the new work on Monday too.

Remember, if you need more work to do then I strongly recommend taking on the Grade 8/9 extension tasks for each exam CSP as these will really give you a deeper understanding of both the text and the wider media debates. You should also go back to previous CSPs and complete the extension work for those - it will make a huge difference.

We are living in very strange times but if we can keep on top of our work things will settle down eventually and we can look forward to some fantastic GCSEs next year.