The Reading Bus has a weekly radio broadcast called “Reading Radio”.
Every week a different class presents their own radio show in partnership with Station House Media Unit. These shows are broadcast live on a Thursday from 11am – 12 noon on SHMU 99.8 FM Listeners outside the Aberdeen area can listen to the shows live online at www.shmu.org.uk.
The radio shows are uploaded to The Reading Bus Website approximately one week after the live show. Two of the broadcasts (September 4th and 18th) have been in Doric and we hope these will be useful resources for schools and communities.
You can download or listen to one of the shows on the Youngsters' Forum:
This is an exciting and innovative project that allows the children to enhance their language skills through a real life experience.
The children are challenged to create and present an hour-long radio show. This is a colloborative project between schools in St Machar, The Reading Bus and Station House Media Unit.
The class decide on a theme for their radio show and collect materials in their own schools. The variety is very wide and shows have included poems, stories, interviews, dramatisations and raps. Some of this materials is pre-recorded in school.
A team of four presenters is then school and with the support of their class teacher or a member of the Reading Bus team a script is written.
Example script:
Activities also develop children's self-esteem, personal skills, ability to work under pressure and to work effectively as part of a team. This fully meets the aspirations of A Curriculum for Excellence: effective contributors, responsible citizens, successful learners and confident individuals.
Due to the success of this learning experience some schools have introduced applications forms and hold interviews to choose the presenters for each show.
“I didn’t think I was going to be able to talk on live radio and I did! I’m so proud of myself.” Campbell – P7
“That was great! I’m a radio presenter!” Leia – P6
“I can’t believe we got to interview a celebrity!” Zoie – P7
“Next time I think I might want to try being a presenter.” Elle – P6
“I have children who don’t normally offer responses in class because they are too shy and then I watch them with a microphone and suddenly a whole new person appears. No classroom activity could ever have such a quick effect!” Gill Graham – P6 Class Teacher
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