GCSE Media Studies NEA Group Planning Event
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Availability -
Bookings concluded
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Price - £0 per place
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Location - Online
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Duration - 10-11.30am
The English and Media Centre is hosting an online group planning and support event for the Media Studies NEA – GCSE.
If you are struggling to get your head around the different briefs available or want to see how other people are planning to approach the NEA at GCSE (for examination in 2026) this is a chance to come together with other teachers to discuss approaches to the tasks and begin planning.
We’re aware that many media teachers work alone or in small departments so this is a great opportunity to collaborate and share good practice over Zoom. Questions will be put to exam board representatives at the end of the session.
We are running a separate A Level session from 12-1.30pm on Saturday 22nd March. Reserve your place for the A Level event here.
Online, via Zoom. Details of how to join will be sent before the session.
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.
Christian Cottingham
Christian is Head of Media, Film and Politics at a secondary school in Crawley. A teacher for twenty years, he holds an MA in Multimedia Journalism and has also worked as an arts writer and in various roles for AQA and WJEC. He is committed to developing students’ media literacy and fascinated by the ongoing impact of new technologies.- This course free must be booked online.
- 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’.
- Bookings for this course will close at 8am (London, UK) on Thursday 20th March, or when capacity is reached, whichever is the sooner.
- Click 'Book now’ (right-hand column).
- Add the number of places you need.
- 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.
- Click submit and then Go to basket.
- Checkout. You will skip the payment page.
- 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.
- Instructions on how to join the course (including Zoom login details) will be sent the day before the course. You will be sent a reminder on Saturday morning.