Welcome to Year 13!

Although you are officially still in Year 12, in Media we are starting Year 13 from Monday 5 June. This means you need to working here on our Year 13 Macguffin Blog from now on.

(If you're a Year 13 student looking for last-minute MEST3 exam resources, just scroll down - and good luck!)

One of the first things you need to do if you're not doing so already is follow the blog on Twitter. We'll be posting crucial links to interesting Media stories, homework reminders and deadlines throughout the year. In fact, we'll even be doing a lot of your homework for you and posting it up on the Twitter account. You'll find us:

@blogmacguffin

If you haven't joined Twitter, do so this week: it's a brilliant way of keeping up with what's happening in the media and you don't have to publish tweets yourself if you don't want to. Once you're on board, follow the following Twitter accounts to give yourself a comprehensive daily update on the media world:

Newspaper media sections
Media Guardian  @mediaguardian
Independent Media @TheIndyMedia
Telegraph film   @TelegraphFilm
Viral stories from the Independent @indy100

Useful Media Studies-related accounts
The Media blog    @TheMediaTweets
Brilliant Ads   @Brilliant_Ads
Pete Fraser   @petesmediablog

Big media personalities
Rupert Murdoch  @rupertmurdoch
Piers Morgan  @piersmorgan
Alasdair Campbell  @campbellclaret

Journalists
Owen Jones @OwenJones84
Roy Greenslade  @GreensladeR
Mehdi Hasan   @mehdirhasan
Nick Sutton   @suttonnick
Nick Davies   @Bynickdavies

Other media-related accounts
Film4    @Film4
Everyday Sexism blog @EverydaySexism
YouGov polling  @YouGov

There are many, many more Twitter accounts you can follow to keep up on certain aspects of the media and anything else you're interested in. Get involved and immerse yourself in the world of the media - you cannot achieve an A grade in Year 13 without an understanding and appreciation of the wider media.

We really believe you can achieve great things in Year 13 and learn the skills you will need at university and beyond. Good luck!