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Media LIVE! Student Conference Event for KS 4 and 5 at Disneyland® Paris

Event Dates:

Monday 24th February 2025

Monday 23rd February 2026

Media LIVE! is a fantastic opportunity to bring the curriculum to life and show your students the many different paths a career in media could take. From Journalism to Film and from TV to New Media this event will inspire your students and allow them to see work from specialists in their field.

Our quality speakers cover the fundamentals of the Media Studies curriculum at KS4 and KS5, perfectly complementing classroom learning. There will be the opportunity for students to ask questions of the industry practitioners and learn about careers associated with the subject during the interactive question and answer sessions.

 

Prices start from£465pp

Price Shown includes

  • Return coach travel 
  • 2 nights bed & breakfast accommodation at Chateau de Grande Romaine*
  • Park Hopper Ticket
  • Attendance at the Media LIVE! Conference
  • Group Travel Insurance
  • 1:10 free place ratio for staff on a twin room basis
  • Support from our Events Team in Disneyland® Paris throughout your stay

Based on 40 passengers travelling by coach. Eurostar and flight options available. 

*On-site Disney hotels and additional nights also available


Who Is This For?

The event is designed to complement studies across a wide range of topics for Key Stage 4 and 5 students of Media Studies.

Study Themes:

  • media language
  • media representation
  • media industries
  • media audiences

The whole experience perfectly complements classroom learning.



Event details and 2025 speakers at LIVE! events

Jenny Kleeman

Jenny is an award winning journalist who specialises in hunting down and telling unique stories you wouldn’t have heard from anyone else. Writing extensively for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Observer and Vice Magazine, Jenny has also presented a number of films for Channel 4’s foreign affairs documentary series Unreported World. She has reported from across the globe; from the depths of the Amazon rainforest to the film sets of Afghanistan’s movie industry, via Liberia, Cambodia, Nigeria and Honduras.

Back on home turf, she’s reported for BBC’s The One Show, and reviews the newspapers on Sky News, BBC News Channel, and LBC. In 2011, Jenny won the One World Media Television Award for ‘The City with Too Many People’, and was Shortlisted for the Amnesty International Gaby Radio Journalism Award in 2012.

With her extensive experience across print and film media, Jenny will give your students first-hand insight into documentary-making and journalism.

Liv Little - Facilitator

Liv is a writer and broadcaster and the founder of the magazine ‘gal-dem’, that provided a platform for stories about female and non-binary people of colour. Her work spans journalism, audio, TV and curatorial projects for which she’s received various accolades, including LGBTQI+ Broadcaster of The Year and Rising Star at Wow. 

Liv has fronted projects for multiple brands including Absolut, Squarespace, Links of London, MAC, Samsung and Google. She has also partnered with a number of fashion houses such as Ganni, Chloé and Clavin Klein.

Liv is most at peace in nature, and she now lives by the sea. Her debut novel, Rosewater, was published in April 2023 (Dialogue).

Liv will feature as Facilitator for Computing LIVE! on 24th February only.

Stevie White

Stevie White is a digital content creator and co-host of one of the UK's most listened to podcasts on Spotify, ‘JaackMaate’s Happy Hour’. He is also a content creator for David Beckham’s esports organisation, Guild. In 2014, Stevie launched his personal Youtube channel after the success of his collaboration with JaackMaate on their song 'Hip to be a Hipster' which reached number 1 in the iTunes comedy chart.

With his enthusiastic and engaging style, Stevie will talk your students through the world of content creation and podcasting, demographics and garnering and maintaining an audience.

TBA

Additional speaker coming soon!

Q&A Session

Our lively and interactive question and answer session gives the students control to ask the questions they want answers to.  All the speakers take to the stage to answer questions to provide different perspectives and to offer invaluable career advice from their own experience.

LIVE! Events Team

Our LIVE! Events Team provide expert on-site support throughout your stay to make your trip as easy and memorable as possible: 

  • Be on-hand & provide assistance throughout the event 
  • Register your students at the conference & take questions 

Workbook and Park Challenges

Our complementary workbooks are designed to be used as your group enjoy the Disney® Parks. The workbooks contain park challenges which encourage students to take a step back and critically appraise the resort from their subject perspective. These park challenges provide opportunity for problem solving, decision making as well as working together so that your students get the maximum from the their time at Disneyland® Paris.


Expert's comment

"It is a real pleasure to participate in EST's Media LIVE! event, especially alongsidesuch an interesting range of industry speakers.  The biggest plaudits should always go to the student attendees though.  The Media LIVE! audiences are as engaged, challenging, passionate, talented and articulate an audience of young people as you could hope to meet!"

Lucy Brett, BBFC


What You Say

Overall the media conference was excellent for relevance and the students fournd it around a 9 or 10 for engaging.   Sir John Deane's College

On site support was excellent.  Staff were friendly and accommodating whatever the time of day.   Hereford Sixth Form College

I cannot recommend this trip enough, I’ve already started plugging it to other media teachers in other schools!   Homewood School

My Media students loved the conference, they were engaged and felt that the information presented was relevant and gave them food for thought. The speakers were all excellent and the content was relevant to what the students are learning especially the A2 media programme. The students highly enjoyed it!   Bacons College

EST are always available for support over the phone so the service that they provide is always really good. I'm very happy to work with them. The conferences are always great with some good opportunities for students to access speakers that they wouldn't ordinarily be able to. The speakers were excellent again this year and very inspiring. Excellent service as always and very reliable when needed e.g. with the bad weather the week prior to the trip.  Garforth Academy​

Everything we asked for you delivered so we are very happy with the trip overall. We loved the bright lime green outfits (nearly as much as the staff :) ) - it made them easy to find and this helped a lot in the chaos of arrival amongst hundreds of guests! ...the evening of arrival was excellent and the staff went out of their way to serve us and make us feel at home. They came over to chat to us and they were friendly and professional.   Bishop Foxs School