The Business, Computing & Media Faculty teaches the computing curriculum to Key Stage 3 students and offers Computer Science, Business Studies, Creative iMedia, Media Studies and Health & Social Care to students in Key Stage 4.
The faculty has use of five computer suites each with 30 student work stations which give students access to a wide range of software and online learning resources.
Cambridge National in Enterprise and Marketing Level 1/2 Certificate - J819
BTEC Firsts in Business can help you take your first steps towards a career in the business world. You’ll learn essential skills such as business enterprise, project management, selling and promoting a brand, and financial awareness, from planning to making a profit.
Students explore the techniques businesses use to understand their market and develop products, investigate what makes a product viable and understand how businesses attract and retain customers.
How it’s assessed
Written paper, OCR-set and marked
Students are presented with a business challenge from which they create a researched and costed business proposal. They will carry out market research, present data, use idea generation tools, seek and act on feedback, and cost their proposals. In their work on this unit they will develop their self-assessment, collaborative working, creativity, numeracy, research and evaluative skills.
How it’s assessed
Centre-assessed task, OCR moderated
Students are presented with a business challenge from which they create a researched and costed business proposal. They will carry out market research, present data, use idea generation tools, seek and act on feedback, and cost their proposals. In their work on this unit they will develop their self-assessment, collaborative working, creativity, numeracy, research and evaluative skills.
How it’s assessed
Centre-assessed task, OCR moderated
OCR Cambridge Nationals in Health and Social Care Certificate
Health and Social Care is a valuable and useful qualification that introduces students to specialist knowledge and skills needed to work in various care settings including; midwifery, physiotherapy, nursing, social care, prison and social work, child care and teaching.
Underpinning the qualification is a focus on core values and communicating with individuals so as to maintain their dignity and sense of being valued and thus, through the various units studied allows students to learn about real life work and jobs and to gain valuable experience in this area of study.
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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9 - 1) in Computer Science (1CP1)
The aims and objectives of this qualification are to enable students to:
Students will learn about:
How it’s assessed
Written examination
Students will learn about:
How it’s assessed
Written examination
OCR Cambridge Nationals Level 1/2 Certificate in Creative iMedia
This course improves students’ knowledge of the digital environment and their confidence with IT. They learn about pre-production and production materials and develop practical skills by planning and creating a variety of different digital graphics and documents.
Students develop their knowledge and understanding of pre-production documents, what the variety of types are and how to create them. They also explore how creating detailed and good standard pre-production documents will ensure successful and smooth production when in the production stage.
How it’s assessed
Written paper, OCR-set and marked
Students will learn about the purposes, properties and planning of digital graphics, together with the tools and techniques needed to create them. They will also create planning documents for digital graphics and create the digital graphics using the planning documentation.
How it’s assessed
Centre-assessed task, OCR moderated
(ICT route)
In this unit students will be introduced to the basics of website design and creation of their website. They will use planning skills to help create their website, and develop their reviewing skills to ensure the smooth running of the website they have created.
How it’s assessed
Centre-assessed task, OCR moderated
Interactive multimedia products are used in computer games, mobile phone applications, online advertising, e-publishing, streaming services and many other areas. This unit helps students to understand the basics of what interactive multimedia products are – including their purpose, features and properties – and how they are made. Students will be able to plan and create an interactive multimedia product to a client’s requirements. Students will learn how to review the final product, evaluate how they met the client brief and decide how they could improve their work.
How it’s assessed
Centre-assessed task, OCR moderated
(Media route)
This unit helps understand where digital video is used in digital media industries. You will understand the purpose of digital video products and where they are used. You will be able to plan a digital video sequence, and then create and edit it to produce a digital video to a specific brief. You will then learn how to review the final sequence, reviewing how you met the client brief and how you could improve your digital video.
How it’s assessed
Centre-assessed task, OCR moderated
Pearson BTEC Level 1/Level 2 Tech Award in Creative Media Production
This course allows students to take a much more creative approach, studying the subject from a vocational perspective. The majority of the course is completed through controlled assessment, with only
In this component you will develop your understanding of how media products are created for specific audiences and purposes. You will explore the relationship between genre, narrative and representation within media products and develop your understanding of how they are interpreted by audiences. Knowledge and understanding will be developed by deconstructing existing products in one of the three sectors: audio/moving image, publishing and interactive media, learning how media production techniques are used to create different effects to communicate meaning to audiences. This component will give an understanding of media practitioners’ work, techniques and technology, which are used to contribute to the creation of media products. Transferable skills, such as analysis and communication, will be developed.
In this component, students will develop practical media production skills and techniques. They will have the opportunity to specialise in one or more of the following media sectors:
By taking part in workshops and classes, students will develop practical skills and techniques applying these to relevant pre-production, production and post-production processes when reworking an existing media product/s. Throughout their development they will review progress and consider how to make improvements.
The capacity to learn and apply new practical skills through a process of experimentation, reflection and refinement is highly valued within the creative industries.
In this component students will respond to a client brief and create a product in one of the following media sectors:
Students will interpret the client’s needs and engage in the process of ideas generation, selecting and refining ideas until the requirements of the brief have been met. Pre-production and planning tasks will be completed to demonstrate to the client how ideas will be implemented. Throughout the pre-production process there will be a constant need monitor and review the effectiveness of the planning and intended outcome to ensure that the media product is fit for audience and purpose. This should mean that any necessary amendments and improvements can be implemented as the product is created.
Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Media Studies
This course takes an analytical approach to the subject matter, with students preparing for two examinations (Components 1 & 2 – 70% of overall grade) and completing controlled assessment (Component 3 – 30% of overall grade) at the end of Year 10
This component provides a foundation for analysing media products, introducing learners to media language and representation through the study of print media forms. Learners will develop their ability to analyse media language, representations and meanings in a range of media products. In addition, learners will study products from specific media industries and audiences to develop their knowledge and understanding.
How it’s assessed
Written examination: 1 hour 30 minutes worth 40% of qualification
In Component 2, learners will gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of media language and representation, as well as extending their appreciation of these areas through the study of media industries and audiences.
Students will study set texts in the following areas;
How it’s assessed
Written examination: 1 hour 30 minutes worth 30% of qualification
In this component, learners must apply their knowledge and understanding of media language and representation to an individual media production for an intended audience in response to a choice of briefs set by the exam board.
The set production briefs will change every year, requiring learners to create a production in a different genre/style and/or for a different intended audience.
How it’s assessed
Non-exam assessment: internally assessed and externally moderated by Exam Board worth 30% of qualification