Frank Wise Schoolhttp://mlearning.rave.ac.uk/blojsom/blog/frankwise/Pupil%20Podcasting/
Mobile learning blog about work and activities by and with special needs children at the school, located in Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK. The age range of the pupils is 2-16.
Encase interview
Posted: November 2006
Here's a great interview with the Operations Manager from a local packaging factory, Encase. Rylan Morris joined the 8th Family Group at Frank Wise School and talked to them about his job. Pupils had decided on their questions the week before, and enjoyed assembling the boxes Rylan brought along with him, especially when they got to fill them with gifts such as pens, t-shirts and baseball caps!
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Water conservation
Posted: October 2006
Not weekly any more, but here's some excellent work from our 10th family group (all new pupils this year though!). The 10th Family group are following a technology project about water. Water is very important for many things so we must not waste it!!
We interviewed Nick, our Site Manager about water in our school as part of the Eco-School survey. As well as being part of our Eco-Schools Silver bid it is also part of our International Comenius Project with partner schools in Spain and Poland. Find out more at http://www.weblogs4schools.co.uk/Comenius/.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Award for Best Animation
Posted: September 2006
We've gone back to our own school news this week. We were thrilled to hear that an animated film the pupils in this class made just over a year ago had won the Best Animation in the Flash Forward Film Festival in Oxford.
We've made it all in Garageband again, so if you have any comments about the quality of images compared to normal do please let us know. Also, it would be great to hear from you if you like having the weblinks in the images.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Killer nurse in Banbury
Posted: May 2006
Last week the pupils in the 10th Family Group found out about the terrible front page story of a local nurse who had murdered 2 people in our hospital, and left several other victims close to death. They've recorded their thoughts on this for the podcast and you can access it here. We've made it all in Garageband this time, so if you have any comments about the quality of images compared to normal do please let us know.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Environment Week at Frank Wise School
Posted: March 2006
The whole school has devoted this weeek to learning about the environment. We've had a wide range of activities and visits and some of the children talked to members of the 10th Family Group about the highlights for them.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.5fg Plant experiments
Posted: March 2006
The 5th Family Group have been learning about plants in their science work.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Local boy on TV
Posted: March 2006
A 9 year old local boy appeared on Stars in Your Eyes on TV recently. He dressed up as his hero, Noddy Holder, performing a song from the 70's band, Slade. Pupils from the 10th Family Group thought this was worth telling you more about.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.World Book Day
Posted: March 2006
More news from Frank Wise School. Every class worked on making their own paper yesterday to prepare a major display to celebrate World Book Day. Pupils added special extra ingredients such as glitter or fragrances, or chose to emboss the paper with shapes or letters, to create a range of very individual works of art! Pupils from the 10th Family Group interviewed people from other classes about what they were doing.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Press Visit
Posted: February 2006
Sally MacKeown, a journalist preparing an article for 'Special Children' magazine, visited us last week to see the work the pupils are doing with Podcasting. We decided to suspend our normal news podcast and instead interview Sally about her job.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.New Scanner at Hospital
Posted: February 2006
Banbury's Horton Hospital now has a new CRT Scanner. Pupils in the 10th Family Group read the story in the Banbury Guardian and voiced their thoughts, including talking about their own experiences of going to hospital.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Big Cat on Prowl
Posted: January 2006
There have been a series of sightings of a mystery big cat around Banbury recently. Pupils in the 10th Family Group read the story on the front page of the Banbury Guardian and voiced their thoughts.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Dramatic Weight Loss
Posted: January 2006
A young man in Banbury has lost 8 stone recently. Pupils in the 10th Family Group read the story on the front page of the Banbury Guardian and voiced their thoughts.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Christmas arson attacks
Posted: January 2006
Over the Christmas holidays there have been a series of arson attacks in and around Banbury. Pupils in the 10th Family Group read the article on the front page of the Banbury Guardian and voiced their thoughts.
An enhanced podcast in AAC formatLocal pensioner robbed
Posted: December 2005
A local pensioner was robbed of £2,000 this week. Pupils in the 10th Family Group read the article on the front page of the Banbury Guardian and found out that her husband had only died 7 weeks earlier.
An enhanced podcast in AAC formatBanbury United win cup match
Posted: November 2005
Banbury United won their match against Cirencester this week, catching the attention of the 10th Family Group who used the article on the back page of the Banbury Guardian to help them talk about it.
An enhanced podcast in AAC formatPoppy Day
Posted: November 2005
The 10th Family Group wanted to talk about Rememberance Sunday this week, including looking at an article in the Banbury Guardian about it.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Fireworks night
Posted: November 2005
The 10th Family Group wanted to talk about Fireworks night this week, including looking at an article in the Banbury Guardian about it.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Half term holidays
Posted: November 2005
Here's the sixth Enhanced Podcast from the 10th Family Group, this time taking a break from the news stories and finding out about what some of the pupils got up to during their week off school.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Election day is here!
Posted: October 2005
Here is all the action from today's school council election. Sorry it's a big file but we wanted to do it as a video podcast.
A video podcast in the M4V format.School Council Elections - Juniors part 1
Posted: October 2005
Forget party leadership elections, here are the candidates for our school council telling you why they want your vote. First off, the first half of pupils from our junior school section who want to be elected.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.School council Elections - Juniors part 2
Posted: October 2005
Forget party leadership elections, here are the candidates for our school council telling you why they want your vote. Here are the second half of pupils from our junior school section who want to be elected.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.School council Elections - Seniors part 1
Posted: October 2005
Forget party leadership elections, here are the candidates for our school council telling you why they want your vote. Here are the first group of pupils from our senior school section who want to be elected.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.School council Elections - Seniors part 2
Posted: October 2005
Forget party leadership elections, here are the candidates for our school council telling you why they want your vote. Here are the second group of pupils from our senior school section who want to be elected.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.School council Elections - Seniors part 3
Posted: October 2005
Forget party leadership elections, here are the candidates for our school council telling you why they want your vote. Here are the final group of pupils from our senior school section who want to be elected.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.Car park drama
Posted: October 2005
Here's the fifth Enhanced Podcast from the 10th Family Group, exploring the kinds of information found in our local newspaper, the Banbury Guardian. This week we went back to a front page story, about a lady who was talked out of jumping off the multi-storey car park in the town.
An enhanced podcast in AAC format.
Whilst all the podcasts listed in this directory are selected in line with our criteria, we do strongly recommend educators that the contents of all podcasts, podcast feeds and channels are regularly auditioned to ensure that they are suitable and appropriate for the age range of the children and young people.
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