Design, Digital Technologies and Media Studies

In 2025 we are expanding our  Digital Technologies and Media Arts program to include Design Technologies.  The program offers Newbury students the chance to experience exciting hands-on and virtual learning experiences. 

We aim to instill cyber safety and responsible uses around online spaces and technology use, supporting students to engage positively with exploring, designing and creating their own art and resources. We also encourage students to explore ethical practices around media art creation and exploration, celebrating diverse perspectives and traditions. 

 

The Design and Technologies curriculum aims to ensure that students can:

  • develop awareness and confidence as critical users of technologies of designed solutions
  • investigate, generate, iterate and analyse to determine ethical and innovative designed solutions for sustainable futures
  • use design and systems thinking to generate design ideas and communicate these to a range of audiences
  • produce designed solutions suitable for a range of technologies contexts by selecting and manipulating a range of tools, materials, systems and components competently and safely, and managing processes
  • evaluate processes and designed solutions, and transfer and apply knowledge and skills to new situations
  • understand the roles and responsibilities of people in design and technologies occupations and how these occupations contribute to society.

The Digital Technologies curriculum aims to ensure that students can:

  • use computational thinking (decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, modelling and algorithms) to create digital solutions
  • use design thinking to design, create, manage and evaluate sustainable and innovative digital solutions to meet and redefine current and future needs
  • apply systems thinking to monitor, analyse, predict and shape the interactions within and between information systems and the impact of these systems on individuals, societies, economies and environments
  • confidently and responsibly use digital systems to efficiently and effectively automate the transformation of data into information and to creatively communicate ideas in a range of settings
  • apply protocols and legal practices that support the ethical collection and generation of data through automated and non-automated processes, and participate in safe and respectful communications and collaboration with audiences.

The Media Arts curriculum aims to develop students’:

  • enjoyment and confidence to participate in, experiment with and interpret the media-rich culture and communications practices that surround them
  • creative and critical thinking skills through engagement as producers and consumers of media
  • aesthetic knowledge and sense of curiosity and discovery as they explore images, text and sound to express ideas, concepts and stories for different audiences
  • knowledge and understanding of their active participation in existing and evolving local, national and global media cultures.

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