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EMC CPD Webinar: Media Studies NEA – The Basics

Availability
Places available
Price
£45 per place
Location
Online
Duration
2-3.30pm

See Booking Details for how to take advantage of our 2 for 1 offer. 

Course details

The NEA is worth 30% for all A Level and GCSE Media Studies courses. In this webinar, we will suggest some effective strategies for delivering this component successfully, including:

  • How to structure/ organise this component of your course 
  • Working with different briefs – what to choose and how to approach them 
  • Getting students to write a successful Statement of Aims/Intent
  • Supporting your students to be creative and confident in their response to the briefs.

This course is particularly suitable for any GCSE or A level Media Studies teacher who is delivering the NEA course for the first time.

NB: The regular teacher sharing event, to discuss the newly published briefs with other media teachers, will still take place on the morning of Saturday 21st March 2026. Click here for details of the GCSE session and here for the A Level session.

This course will be recorded but attendees will not be audible or visible. 

EMC's Webinar Packages

Online, via Zoom. Details of how to join will be sent before the session.

Download Zoom

  • If relevant, course materials will be sent the day before the course in the email with your joining instructions. Please either print these out or have them available on screen during the session.
  • After the session you will receive the PowerPoint presentation and any resources used on the course.
  • After the session you will receive a link to register to watch a recording of this session on-demand until 30th April 2026. 

How to join this course if your department has bought the webinar package

  • To join the live session, register using the registration link sent to the departmental key contact. You can register to join the live session right up to the start of the webinar. Use the unique link sent by [email protected] to join the webinar on the day.
  • To watch the recording on-demand, register using the on-demand registration link sent to the departmental key contact the day after the live session. This email will also include the PowerPoint presentation and any additional resources. On-demand access expires 30th April 2026.
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Claire Pollard

Claire Pollard is the advisory teacher for Media Studies at the English and Media Centre. She is the editor of MediaMagazine and the programme leader for the Goldsmiths Media and English PGCE working with trainees in schools all across London. Prior to working at the centre she taught English and Media Studies for 15 years in inner London schools, most of the time at Stepney All Saints in Tower Hamlets where she established Media as a new curriculum subject. She has been an examiner for GCSE English literature and a moderator for A Level Media Studies and has delivered CPD for OCR, the MEA and the BFI. Claire also contributed a chapter to Doing Text: Media After the Subject and she co-authored the second edition of Media Studies the Basics.

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April McCarthy

April is a Media Consultant at the English and Media Centre and Head of Media and Film Studies at Hampstead School.

EMC's Webinar Packages

Booking this course as a 'one-off' purchase

  • Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Wednesday 4th March, or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
  • This course is part of our 2 for 1 offer
    • Book a place on this course and you’ll be sent a voucher code entitling you to book a further place on the same course for a colleague at your school. Your code will be emailed to you as soon as we have received your booking.
    • Please note: bookings for this course close at 8am on Wednesday 4th March. The 2nd free place must be booked before the closing date, so please make sure you give yourself enough time!
    • Your voucher can only be redeemed online and is only eligible against this course.
      (Any issues please email Lucy.)
  • This course must be booked and paid for online. Payment by invoice is not available for this session. Please note: your fee is non-refundable.
  • To book this course you must be signed into one of the following accounts (registering an account first if you need to):
    • UK Trust/Academy – Head Office (purchasing) 
    • UK Educator Admin (purchasing)
    • UK Teacher – Home Address Only
    • UK Private Individual
    • Overseas
  • If you have a UK Educator Standard account you will not be able to book the course. Sign in to your account and add it to your Wishlist. See the list of people able to book courses at your organisation by clicking ‘My Account’, then ‘Our Admin Users’.
  1. Click 'Book now’ (right-hand column).
  2. Add the number of places you need. 
  3. Fill in the names and email addresses of the people attending. To secure your place, please make sure you add the attendee details immediately and checkout within 24 minutes. Otherwise the booking will expire and you will have to begin the process again.
  4. Click submit and then Go to basket.
  5. Checkout. (Payment by invoice is not available for this session.)
  6. IF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR 2 FOR 1 OFFER, PLEASE WAIT TO BE SENT YOUR CODE BEFORE BOOKING YOUR 2ND PLACE.
  7. Once you have booked your place, you will see a screen indicating your order has been successful. You may want to make a note of your order number. The person making the booking and the attendee will receive an automatic acknowledgement of your booking.
  8. Instructions on how to join the course (including Zoom login details) will be sent from [email protected] for the first time on the day bookings close. Reminders, including any course handouts, will be sent the day before and one-hour before the course. Please check your junk or promotions folder. Still no luck? Email us before 1pm on the course day [email protected].

Cancellation and amendments

  • Afternoon and twilight webinars must be paid for by card at the time of booking.
  • The fee is non-refundable.
  • However, the webinars are recorded. Anyone who books a place on the course will be sent a link to register to access the recording of the webinar until 30th April 2026, regardless of whether they attended live.