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

Event Dates:

Monday 24th February 2025

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£435pp

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.  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 2024 speakers at LIVE! events

Remel London - Facilitator

Remel London is an award-winning British TV, Radio presenter and host. Since graduating with a BA Degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Leeds, Remel’s high energy, fun and thoughtful style has resulted in her becoming the lead presenter on SKY One’s Unmuted, the host of the Saturday Afternoon show on CAPITAL XTRA and a highly sought after voice-over artist working with the BBC, CBBC, BET, UKTV and BT Sports to name a few. 

Remel London is very passionate about her local community and young creatives. She is the founder of The Mainstream, which is a creative platform offering networking opportunities, live events, workshops, seminars, Q&A’s and a podcast to support individuals that would like to launch and develop their career into the mainstream media and entertainment world.

Stevie White

Stevie White is a Digital Creator and Co-host of one of the UK's most listened to podcasts on Spotify, Happy Hour with JaackMaate. He is also a content creator for Guild Esport and frequently streams on Twitch with an audience of over 15,000 followers. 

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. 

Bobby Seagull

Bobby Seagull is a is a television personality (University Challenge and the Monkman and Seagull Genius Guides). author (The Life-Changing Magic if Numbers) and teaches maths at his local school in east London. He's confident in representing the views of teachers, being on Good Morning Britain and BBC Radio Four's Any Questions. 
 

Gemma Hunt

Gemma Hunt has been working in TV since 2003 when she graduated with her 1st Class Media Performance Degree.  Having met an agent through a careers day at the University, Gemma’s showreel was sent to CBBC who met her for an interview, invited her for a screen test and then offered her a contract with CBBC, as one of their live on-air presenters working on CBBC1, 2 and then on the CBBC Channel - and all before she had graduated.

Gemma has presented a huge variety of shows and has thousands of live hours of TV experience presenting magazine shows, on-air links and hosting coverage from huge live events. Gemma has presented 8 series of the hit BAFTA winning CBeebies pirate gameshow series SWASHBUCKLE and also performs in the Cbeebies Christmas shows and Shakespeare adaptations each year for the channel. In 2020 Gemma was delighted to join the regular presenting team of BBC1’s Songs of Praise.

Gemma regularly works as MC for large festivals and also runs workshops in presenting skills and enjoys working with children, leading storytelling sessions and birthday parties. Gemma has also written 2 Children’s books.

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: 

  • Assist with hotel check-in 
  • Be on-hand & provide assistance throughout the event 
  • Register your students at the conference & take questions 
  • Assist with check-out & departure


Travel Package Options

2 Night Coach Travel Package
Sunday to Tuesday

1 DAY PARK TICKET 

Sunday: Morning departure for Paris, overnight at Disneyland® Paris
Monday: LIVE! Student Conference & Free time in the Disneyland® Paris parks.  Overnight at Disneyland® Paris
Tuesday: Return coach travel.

3 Night Coach Travel Package
Sunday to Wednesday

Sunday - Wednesday

2 DAY PARK TICKET 

Sunday: Morning departure for Disneyland® Paris, overnight at Disneyland® Paris
Monday: Live! Student Conference & Free time in park. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris 
Tuesday: Day trip to Paris. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris 
Wednesday: Morning free in the Park. Return coach travel.

3 Nights Overnight Coach Travel Package
Saturday to Tuesday

2 DAY PARK TICKET 

Saturday: Late evening departure. Night time channel crossing 
Sunday: Morning arrival at Disneyland® Paris. Day free to use your Disneyland® Pass. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris
Monday: Live! Student Conference & Free time in park. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris. 
Tuesday: Return coach travel

2 Night Eurostar Travel Package Sunday to Tuesday

1 DAY PARK TICKET 

Sunday: Afternoon departure from St Pancras International. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris.
Monday: LIVE! Student Conference & Free time in Park. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris.
Tuesday: Free time to enjoy the Disney Village. Early afternoon departure. Arrive back in London early evening.


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