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Projects - Media Arts



The Media Arts Project


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Our students live in a media rich world and their culture and lifestyle is heavily influenced by the products of digital technology in all its forms e.g. television, mobile telephones, videos, computer games and the World Wide Web.

As part of learning in the 21st century, Media Literacy is an essential part of the general education of all our pupils and students. This means equipping all of them with the means to be critical and discerning users and confident creators of their own media texts. Our aim in this FCLP project is to involve Frome students and teachers in the creation of a media arts curriculum across the Partnership which is characterised by continuity and progression of learning.

The aim is to enable learning and teaching to take place through a series of spiral and progressive media projects up until the end of Key Stage 3. These projects include the reading, writing and creation of a wide variety of media texts. E.g. one project has been based on the theme of “Heroes and Villains” and accessed media texts as variable as fairy tales, comics, magazines, TV programmes, computer games and music and included a creative exercise based on the theme.

Each year a new action plan is developed building on the work of the previous years. This is monitored by a group of head teachers working with the Media Arts Outreach worker from Frome College. Some of the work has been with one school, while others have worked across schools often drawing together children from all three stages of their education in Frome (First, Middle and College).

While building up knowledge of Media Arts skills these projects also develop and contribute towards learning in a wide range of areas including developing writing skills, ICT, team work, confidence building, project and planning skills, as well as direct input into knowledge bases around culture and history both locally and internationally.

Projects in the last year have included: