A visit to the radio station and school blog updating 01.02.13

During this teaching placement I'm spending most of the time with year 6 students. My school tutor, who is also one of the two English teachers, is the tutor of the oldest kids so that's why I'm joining other subjects they learn apart from English and also some excursions.

Yesterday I went with children to the local radio station. We had already been there because last week we visited the place just to know how all the stuff worked. During the next fifteen days, students have been preparing a radio program in order to become journalists and be able to record it in a real studio. 

Kids were very excited with the experience and they enjoyed a lot reading their programs in front of the microphone. It was a fantastic activity because they work very hard in groups and they planned in pairs different sections about news, music, sports, video games, etc. Previously at school they had to write all the scripts, so they developed their writing skills and also they practised the dialogues many times, so the oral expression was taken into account as well.

Ignasi Iglesias school has many blogs that talk about excursions, important activities, English, music, books, etc. but sometimes teachers are so busy to update them. For that reason I offered to write a new entrance in the year 6 blog talking about the radio experience and also showing some pictures I took in the morning. My tutor was so grateful to me because she didn't know exactly how to include photos in the blog. I think that blogs are very useful to show to the children's family which activities they do at school and outside it, so this resource is very useful to establish a good and trustworthy relationship between the school and families.

Here you have the school blog, where you will find some pictures of the excursion.