Arts & Media

Communication Arts

This curriculum provides students with the skills necessary to create timely and unbiased coverage of events at Padua Academy and its surrounding communities through broadcasting, journalism, publication design, and photography.

Padua’s Communication Arts classes form the Padua Media Group. These courses work together to provide students the opportunity to produce the following programs and publications:

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Publication Design - Paduan Yearbook

A tradition for over 60 years, the Padua yearbook is a student-produced publication. From photography to layout, from editing to theme-development, students oversee each part of the process, fostering teamwork, leadership abilities, and design skills.

Student designers and editors have become published photographers, university newspaper editors-in-chief, and employees at top-rated publication companies, such as Conde Nast.
Television and Video Production - PATV
Our nationally recognized PATV program produces over 100 daily live broadcasts in addition to numerous pre-recorded programs. Students are responsible for all aspects of production, including researching story ideas, writing scripts, and recording.

PATV was awarded Best Newscast: Radio or Television for the 7th year in a row in 2022 by the Delaware Press Association. They have also taken home 2 Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Student Production Awards:
- 2022 Winner for Multimedia Journalist
- 2018 Winner for Best Daily Newscast