Welcome to the Netherhall School and Sixth Form Media Department
Whether you're currently studying here, or thinking of joining the school or Oakes college - we would like to welcome you to our Website. This is a learning resource we use both in and out of lessons to help our students thrive and get the best out of their course. For more information on the department please contact Ms Samuels for Media or Ms Smiley for Film. We deliver high quality teaching and learning matched with dedicated teachers, with a range of experience and skills along with the best facilities in Cambridge. Our students benefit from a full HD multi-camera TV Studio, multi-mic radio and recording studio, TV Production gallery complete with vision mixer, all the latest Apple software including Final Cut Pro X and Motion, as well as all Adobe editing software (to use at school and home).
We run the OCR National Certificate (worth 1x GCSE) in Creative iMedia this includes units on Pre-Production of a Film, Digital Graphics, Creating a Multi-Camera digital studio sequence and PS4/XBox/PC Game Design. At Sixth Form our students have two exciting options - OCR A Level Media Studies which they can do alongside other A Levels of their choice and the exciting new Cambridge University endorsed Extended Technical Diploma in Digital Media Production.
They also benefit from two dedicate classroom spaces and media students enjoy their own computer suite with over 20 Apple Macs and over 30 Apple iPads. They also benefit from smaller class sizes giving them the best chance at success.