Radio in the Curriculum

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Radio is a fun, creative and inclusive way to engage both teaching and learning.


At the heart of all great radio shows are features.  Choosing  features around a topic enables small teams to work simultaneously; researching, script writing, interviewing and performing to contribute content to the show.  When all the groups have written and rehearsed their features, you are ready to record your radio show!

Popular features include: News, weather, adverts, jingles, “did you know?”, presenter links, competitions, dramas, poems, interviews and music.

Whether creating a morning breakfast show or a revision podcast about  Henry VIII, good features are the key to making a successful radio show.
 

Learn the basics within 20 minutes!


SYNERGY has been developed to cater for both the commercial broadcaster and educationalists wanting to use radio within the classroom.  Any teacher can learn the basics required to create a radio show with a class of pupils in under 20 minutes!

Not just for the media department...


So many opportunities exist for departments wanting to use radio within their curriculum but traditional and commercial technology has always presented a barrier to learning.

Commercial broadcast equipment and software is designed by broadcast engineers for radio professionals to operate.  Every national commercial radio station in the UK is bespoke and uses slightly different equipment to cater for varying project objectives and levels of engineer expertise.  Within education, this high level of broadcast expertise simply does not exist, making it extremely difficult to train, support and sustain a school radio station when the products are not designed specifically for this environment.

Thanks to Clyde Broadcast’s huge investment in research, partnering with educationalists and developing new Digital broadcast technologies, SYNERGY finally overcomes this problem.  

Whether you are creating radio shows for the first time, want to use radio in a classroom environment or are a state broadcaster, SYNERGY can deliver on every level!

Here are just some of the education departments successfully using SYNERGY across the UK: