The document proposes changes to the Year 10 intervention curriculum, including replacing some subjects. It currently includes triple science, maths, and English. The proposed changes include keeping triple science but adding two GCSE Media Studies classes, two GCSE Statistics classes, and one ECDL ICT class to allow students to gain an additional GCSE qualification and develop literacy or numeracy skills. Triple science provides three separate GCSE qualifications in biology, chemistry, and physics. The Media Studies and Statistics GCSEs include exam and coursework components. ECDL ICT involves online tests in software like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel and is worth a GCSE grade C+. The purpose is to give students more options to broaden their

1. YEAR 10 INTERVENTION
• 4 HOURS PER WEEK
• TRIPLE SCIENCE
• MATHS
• ENGLISH

2. PROPOSED CHANGES
• TRIPLE SCIENCE – NO CHANGE
• TWO GCSE MEDIA STUDIES CLASSES
• TWO GCSE STATISTICS CLASSES
• ONE ECDL ICT CLASS

3. WHY CHANGE THE CURRICULUM?
• TO GIVE PUPILS THE CHANCE TO GAIN AN ADDITIONAL GCSE QUALIFICATION IN Y10
• TO ALLOW YOU TO DEVELOP YOUR LITERACY OR NUMERACY SKILLS AT THE SAME TIME

4. TRIPLE SCIENCE
• THREE GCSE QUALIFICATIONS
• BIOLOGY
• CHEMISTRY
• PHYSICS

5. GCSE MEDIA STUDIES
• WJEC EXAM BOARD
• 60% COURSEWORK
• 40% EXAM – 2.5 HOURS (FOUNDATION & HIGHER TIER)

6. GCSE STATISTICS
• 25% COURSEWORK
• 75% EXAM – 1.5 OR 2 HOURS (FOUNDATION OR HIGHER TIER)

7. ECDL - ICT
• WORD
• POWERPOINT
• EXCEL SPREADSHEETS
• FOUR ONLINE TESTS
• WORTH A GCSE GRADE C+

9. • How do you make sense of them all?
• How do you know what they are trying to
communicate — both on an obvious and a less
obvious level?
• How do you know how much you have been
influenced — consciously or subconsciously — by
these media messages?
• Does the media reflect your reality, or control the
way you view it?
We live in a media-saturated world. From video clips on your phone, to TV ads
to blockbuster movies, to posters at the bus stop, to the music in your earbuds,
you are surrounded by media messages for most of your waking hours.

10. Media Studies helps you develop an important set of skills that will help you
navigate the rest of your education and then, your working life. Media Studies
will help you increase your knowledge and understanding of:
• Communication
• Design
• Planning
• Presentation
• Evaluation
• Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Advertising
• Radio
• Research
• Story-telling
• Technology
• Politics
• Business
• Culture
• Citizenship
• Music
• Visual media

11. GCSE Media Studies helps to
develop your independent
learner skills; this means less
time listening to us, stood at
the front of the classroom and
more of you exploring
questions, which you have set
for yourself and interest YOU,
with US guiding you in that
process.

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