Foundation Creative and Media Production, and Technology
Foundation Creative and Media Production, and Technology is a two-year Entry Level and Level 1 course for learners in Years 10 and 11 who learn best through practical work. Literacy runs through both portfolio units: in Unit 1 learners read about Welsh media companies and explain job roles, regulators and ethics, and in Unit 2 they write scripts and text for an audience, pitch ideas, listen to feedback and write short evaluations. Evidence can be written, spoken, recorded or visual, so Entry Level learners can show speaking and listening as well as writing. Numeracy is light: scheduling a production with deadlines, sorting audiences into groups, timing and trimming clips, and resizing images. Key Stage 3 should build writing and speaking for a named audience and purpose.
- Awarding body
- WJEC
- Level
- Entry Level and Level 1
- First taught
- September 2027
- Amount of literacy work
- Medium
- Amount of numeracy work
- Low
- Specification
- Open the specification
- Next step up
- VCSE Creative and Media Production, and Technology, Level 1 and Level 2
How this qualification is assessed
- Unit 1: Introduction to Welsh creative media industries: Centre marked non-examination assessment, a portfolio of evidence from teacher-set activities, maximum assessment time of 9 hours (typically 7 to 9 hours), 40 of the 112 qualification points, assessed in centre and moderated by WJEC; 36 guided learning hours, intended to be taught first and available from summer 2028
- Unit 2: Creative and media production tools and processes: Centre marked non-examination assessment, a portfolio of evidence from teacher-set activities, maximum assessment time of 38 hours (typically 25 to 38 hours), 72 of the 112 qualification points, assessed in centre and moderated by WJEC; 84 guided learning hours, available from summer 2029
Skills that use Strategic competence
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Scheduling a production with deadlines and timelines
In Unit 2 learners plan the steps of a production, schedule tasks by setting short deadlines or ordering them in a timeline, and identify resources. Entry 3 learners plan with short deadlines, checklists or simple timelines, and Level 1 learners create and follow a plan with realistic timescales, resources and responsibilities.
Numeracy: Measurement, Strategic competence
Getting pupils ready
- Year 7
- Pupils put the steps of making a poster in order and give each step a lesson number on a simple timeline.
- Year 8
- Pupils plan a two week filming project on a calendar, working out how many lessons each task needs and when to film.
- Year 9
- Pupils build a production schedule for a five lesson project with dates, times, people and equipment, and adjust it when one filming day is lost.
Show the specification wording and the LNF statements
Where it is in the specification: Unit 2, LO2.2, page 24; Assessment criterion 2.2.3, page 29
“setting short deadlines or ordering tasks in a timeline”
Progression step 3
I can use and interpret calendars, timetables and schedules to plan events and activities, and make calculations as part of the planning journey.
I can prioritise and organise the relevant steps needed to complete the task or reach a solution.
Progression step 4
I can prioritise and organise the relevant steps needed to complete the task or reach a solution.
I can select, trial and evaluate a variety of possible approaches and break complex problems into a series of tasks.
Good to know
- Evidence can take many forms, including a learner statement, "a written or recorded account by the learner reflecting on what they did and what they learned", and video or audio recordings (Section 3.3, page 40), so spoken work can count.
- Spoken and observed work needs records: "performance evidence (for example, presentations or practical demonstrations) is documented using observation records" (Section 3.6, page 41).
- Support is graded by level: "Entry 1 learners will require a high level of support, including verbal, visual and practical assistance, use of symbols, or assistive technology." while Level 1 learners work independently (Section 3.4, page 41).
- All evidence is submitted online: "All evidence must be submitted digitally." (Section 3.3, page 40).
- Appendix A (page 47) maps Literacy speaking and writing to every learning outcome in Unit 1 and Unit 2, reading to all but LO2.1, and listening to all of Unit 1 and LO2.3 to LO2.5.
- Appendix A (page 48) maps Numeracy "Developing mathematical proficiency" to LO1.2 and LO2.1 to LO2.5, number and geometry and measurement to parts of Unit 2, and statistics to LO1.2 only.
Links with other qualifications
The specification names the WJEC VCSE Creative and Media Production, and Technology as the next step after a Level 1 Pass. The VCSE shares the same literacy and numeracy: writing scripts and text for an audience, explaining creative choices, acting on feedback, evaluating work, scheduling a production and reading audience information. It steps them up to a written proposal against a WJEC-set brief, a production journal, a sector test that needs precise subject vocabulary, focus group feedback and a production budget. Writing for an audience and purpose also links with GCSE English Language and Literature, and analysing media products with GCSE Digital Media and Film.
Source: WJEC Entry Level/Level 1 Foundation Creative and Media Production, and Technology specification, approved by Qualifications Wales, teaching from September 2027, for award from 2029 (© WJEC CBAC Ltd 2026).