Teach the AQA GCSE Media Studies (8572) The Times newspaper CSP with confidence, whether Media is your specialism or your surprise second subject. This complete in-depth unit covers the set edition (Friday 16 January 2026) across all four areas of the theoretical framework and the contexts, and builds in the required comparison with the Daily Mirror.

You get five ready-to-teach 60-minute PowerPoint lessons with full speaker notes (run sheets, timings, model answers, differentiation and sensitivity prompts), plus a combined A4 student revision booklet that prints cleanly in black and white and builds into a complete revision guide with a four-lens summary and glossary.

Grounded in the AQA specification and the 2028 CSP booklet, with every named theory included: semiotics, narrative (Propp), Blumler and Katz, reception theory, and the full industries vocabulary. Assessed on Paper 1 Sections A and B and Paper 2 Section B.

Check out my shop for complete units of work for each CSP names in the 2028 booklet - each unit comes with a teachers guide and a studenst booklet that, once complete will be a really useful revision resource for them. Bundles available.