Archive for the ‘Frankley’ Category
One of the groups in Enterprise week had the job os traightening out the schools front garden using recylced material from around Frankley. In his first time as a podcast reporter Sean went to find out what they’d done:  http://www.frankleytalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/enterpriseweekseangardening.mp3 [1:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
We learned a lots from from John Rose and we are grateful for the time he spent with us. One of the key questions we wanted to know is does it make sense for schools to recycle those thousands of plastic drink bottles we throw away. Listen to this and you will be surprised by what he has got to say and how passionate he is. The poeple in this group were all geeks!!!
Young people from Frankley High interview each other about the forthcoming Enterprise week at school. It’s the day years six children visit Frankley High to get used to the school - here’s what one thought of lunchtime:
Frankley Talk meets Rita the school cook at Frankley Commuity High [4:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Welcome to another podcast. This time year 9 at Frankley Community High interview Martin Nangoli who visited us to tell us about life in his home village of Kikobero in Uganda. To listen just click on the arrow below or you can download the mp3 by clicking here. We have been helping Martin send children from his village to school. As you can see from the photo we have been raising money through a non-uniform day and also a cake sale.
Earlier today Craig Stephen’s, one of the performers, was in the school helping to plan new ways to use podcasting in Frankley. He bumped into Sue Baker in the library who said hello and told him what she made of Constance Brown. Click on the grey arrow below to hear Sue’s verbal review of Constance Brown. Words by James Yarker at Stan’s Cafe On Monday the rain stopped and clouds parted over Frankley, Birmingham, for precisely the two hours requested to allow the School’s Carnival to be the triumph everyone’s efforts deserved it to be.
Last year Holly Hill Infant School blazed the trail by staging a Circus Carnival that involved the whole school, costumes, chanting, actions and a band. It was magnificent. Soon there was a clamour for an expanded carnival this year with neighbouring schools; the result was even more magnificent. There were three bands, including a full-on Samba Team, an exuberant dancing section and four giant carnival costumes, which threatened to convert into gilded paragliders in the high winds. The increase in age range gave the carnival more diversity than last year. The Seasons’ theme gave the pupils a chance to pursue their own creative ideas whilst keeping a coherence to proceedings. There was an army of Snow Fairies, a host of trees with wind rustling their leaves, thunder clouds with lightening, rain drops and rainbows, fiery Suns, a platoon of Lady Birds, Green Shooting Grass with worms and earth, clumps of flowers surrounded by butterflies and bumble bees, whilst a shoal of silver scaled fish played a slippery samba. The large-scale combination education, artistry and logistics delivered by Ana and her small team was deeply impressive. The engagement enjoyment of pupils, teachers and other school staff and support of parent was evident. A burst of sunshine was the least everyone deserved. Over the last two years Reaside School has been working on an extended project exploring and in some cases inventing, local mythologies. Now surely they have helped create their own mythology – the great Frankley Carnival of 07. James
As part of the same conference where we met Soweto Kinch we also played our work to a room full of people and talked to them about the podcasting project. We showed one of them (Hugh - thank you) the basics of podcasting and he interviewed us about what we had learned. This is the end result.
Earlier today four students from year 9 met the international jazz musician Soweto Kinch at a conference of people who work for Creative Partnerships. It was part of the podcast project we’d been working on last week. We played some of our podcasts to Soweto and listened to some of his music from his album about Birmingham “B19″. Then we recorded an interview with him where he encouraged us to be creative and told us we don’t have to leave either Frankley or Birmingham to be succesful. |
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It’s May 14th 2008 and this is the first in a series of podcasts we want to make talking to the staff who serve Frankley Community High School. We though we’d start with the person who’s always on the till at dinner: Rita the head of the school kitchens. So if you want to know what has changed at Frankley Community High since the 1980’s and what Rita thinks of 
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