Year 12opD work for Period 1

Whilst looking through your blogs again at the weekend I need you to complete a risk assessment and a full production log.

Examples of the layouts that you need to use can be found here: http://chchsmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/risk-assessment.html
and
http://chchsmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/example-of-production-log.html

Please make sure that these are here as it's the only way I can boost your grades for Research and Planning.

Comment with a simple done on this post once you've done this or if you already have. If you've done this then make sure you let me know and then add on anything else you are missing from your blog, I will have added any comments to your blog if you are missing everything.

Thanks
Miss Walsh

I don't know what else to do!

Lads,

I don't know what else I can do now. It's breaking my heart that I am writing this post. I am not a teacher for the holidays, the pay, the pat on the back when someone says, "I couldn't be a teacher, must be tough", I'm not a mercenary and I'm not a glory hunter. I teach because there is nothing in this world that I've wanted to do other than this. I do it because I love it when young people are empowered and when I was your age I had some fantastic people who cared and wanted me to do well, and I thought, wow, to give someone that feeling, that someone cares about their future and they don't need to be related to them, that must be so rewarding for their soul. So off I went, did a degree in something I loved, and then went on to pay to do my teaching qualification.

Today, as I'm sat at home on my laptop looking at your work I'm wondering where I've gone wrong. Maybe you've misunderstood when I'm having a go and pushing you, to be me hating you, so you think you don't want to work? Maybe you think that there's no point? Whatever it is, I'm devastated as a human being that some of you seem to be so full of self doubt, or lack self respect that you would actively choose not to do work that will get you an AS level. Are you not doing AS levels to make a better life for yourselves?

If I thought any of you were not capable of doing this course or getting a half decent grade in your work then I would have told you by now, I would have had you removed from the course. I have always believed that each of you can do well and I have put in so much time and effort going through each of your essays, looking at new ways to teach you information, doing research to make sure that you have the most current facts and figures. But you're not working with me anymore, I can't do it for you, I won't, it won't help you as a human being.

My job is not to teach you media, it's to give you skills that will help you be better than me, achieve more than I ever could with my life and go out and make yourselves feel proud of what you accomplish, that is worth more to me than anything else.

I know that most of you will not read this, about 10 follow the twitter that has been set up to help you revise and get additional help and info about the exam topics. I can't care enough for both me and you. I have to draw the line for my own health.

I will continue to give feedback and advice, I will continue to teach and mark and plan every hour god sends as every once and a while one of you will do something amazing...something that makes me burst with pride and make my life's dream worth it. At the moment though, it is truly destroying me that some of you don't have that care for yourselves. This isn't a dress rehearsal, this isn't a mock, this is it. The government want you to do badly, you have got it tough and my heart breaks when I think about how difficult it is to get jobs or university funding, but be the best you can be and things will happen for you, you will make them...if not you may as well resign yourself now.

Please lads, meet me half way, act on feedback, I'm not saying something looks bad because I want to hurt you, I'm doing it to help you be better...I know what the competition is, I've shown it to you...step up and show the world that you're all amazing.

Until you take some pride in your work all I can do is carry on giving out E's and D's...nobody has achieved anything above this yet.

I'm sorry if I've let you down.

Miss Walsh

Use of the Green Room

I'm disgusted lads! The state of that green room today is beyond a joke! The screen is damaged and equipment is lashed all over the floor.

You need to carefully consider what type of people you are. The school have invested a lot of money for you to use top of the range equipment that you should feel is a priviledge not an entitlement. I'm fed up with immaturity and silly behaviour.

The way some of you have used my personal camera and now the facilities shows a lack of respect for me, Mr McCann, the school and yourselves, not to mention the students coming after you who will not have the opportunity to use these facilities because of your selfishness.

The room is now closed to year 12. Find somewhere else to take your photograp

hs.

Blogs

Lads,

I've spent the last 12 hours stressed over your blogs...something not right here!

I've had enough of seeing school uniform, in some case with no attempt to hide school lanyards, I made EXPLICITLY CLEAR in September the demands of this course and what you need to do. If you're not prepared to do it, then you need to make sure you see Ms Lees or Mr Phipps to get yourselves removed from the course. This is what it is, this is what you have to do and therefore DO IT!

The Mark Scheme is below, this is what you are getting marked on...pull yourselves together please!

There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:

• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;

• showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design;

• showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size;

• accurately using language and register;

• using ICT appropriately for the task set;

• appropriately integrating illustration and text;

• shooting a variety of material appropriate to the task set;

• manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing.

Updated Colour coding

12opA:

12opD:

12opD Marked Blogs

As promised your blogs have been checked and marked. Please look at where you are up to and make sure that you attend any catch up sessions needed to make sure you are on target for your grade and for meeting deadlines.

 

12opA Marked Blogs

Hi,

I've marked your blogs and checked what has been fixed. 12opD I'll have yours up tomorrow night, it's almost 10pm and I'm exhausted so will get yours done as soon as I can.

Major issue at the moment is your application to this work. Everything you do goes towards your final grade, similarly everything you DON'T do goes towards it too. I'm currently at a loss as to how to hit home how important all the work we give you to do is. I think the next step is one to one interviews in some cases about your place on the course. I will be starting these next week, any further interaction will be with home.

Miss Walsh

Remarks of original colour coding: George ->Joe

 Remarks of original colour coding: Jack-> Tom W

 Work since October colour Coding: George-> Joe

  Work since October colour Coding: Jack -> Tom Whittaker

York Film Festival Trip

FRIDAY 8TH NOVEMBER

Leaving School: 6:45am

Bring lunch or money for lunch

OWN CLOTHES...(best clothes please I don't want you to make a show of me)

Back for 7pm hopefully

TV Drama Folders

Can both classes please check that they have the following things in their folders for next lesson please:

• TV Drama Booklet
• Feedback/Marking Grid from 1st Attempt of Exam Response.

I need to make sure you all have these in your folder all the time otherwise you will be loosing notes.

I will be checking these on Thursday for 12opA and 12opD Mr McCann will be checking. Could you let your mates know please if they haven't seen this!

Music Magazine Questionnaires

Please take the time to complete some of our year 12 Questionnaires for their Music Magazine Coursework. I know that they would appreciate it, particularly the ones who have made the effort to do the work and keep up to date.

12opA
Daniel Berkeley (not done the work)
George Burrell
Jack Conway
Matthew Dutton
Jamie Graceffa
Luke Griffiths
Oliver Irving (not done the work)
Dylan Jennings
Alex Laidlaw (not done the work)
Joe law
Jack McKeown
Charlie Newton
Michael Nolan
Ryan O'Donnell
Ian Pelgrave
Tom Quick
Tom Whittaker (not done the work)

12opD
Anthony Black
Connor Burgess
Michael Hickey
Nathan Kearns
Charlie Mossman
Kasey Porter
Nathan Quarless
Lewis Webster
Kieran Winrow
Michael Taylor

Twitter

I will be putting a gadget on the side of this to showcase the Twitter feed for the Media Department but I would like as many of you as possible to follow it as it will give you the information for lessons and changes to rooms or any updates to blogs that you will need to make.

I will also make sure that any trip info will be passed to you.

12 op D

Hi,

As discussed here is the breakdown of your blogs.


Red = REALLY REALLY AWFUL AND TOO BASIC

Orange= Needs to be improved

Green = Fine

The improvements could be that you will need to look at inserting images or videos, it could also be in some cases that there is not enough information or images to make it a successful post.

For the questionnaire you've all been given orange as I would like you all to embed your questionnaires please.

Year 12 op A Mr McCann Lesson

Hi All, Mr McCann is absent from your lesson today but you all have a lot of work to do. Below is a breakdown of the coursework and I have colour coded each blog post as follows:

Red = REALLY REALLY AWFUL AND TOO BASIC

Orange= Needs to be improved

Green = Fine

The improvements could be that you will need to look at inserting images or videos, it could also be in some cases that there is not enough information or images to make it a successful post.

I am in and therefore I will be in your lesson period 5 and I will expect to see improvements made on your blogs by period 5.

For the questionnaire you've all been given orange as I would like you all to embed your questionnaires please.

Thanks
Miss Walsh

Welcome

Hi All,

Welcome to the Media Studies Blog for Year 12.

You will find here the resources that you will be given in lesson and any notices for homework. Feel free to leave questions that you may have on here regarding any aspect of the course.

You will also find all of the teaching resources that you will need alongside any additional information such as texts to watch or video clips that you may need.


Good Luck and Enjoy

Miss Walsh