School Radio

Listen and Play

Songs and stories for pre-school children.

Each programme includes familiar songs, rhymes, stories and sound discrimination games.

Each programme includes familiar songs, rhymes, stories and sound discrimination games to develop children's phonological awareness and confidence with spoken language.

Listen and Play: Giants and Beans

Giants and Beans

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Today's story is 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.

Cat Sandion returns with more songs, rhymes and listening games to join in with and the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk.’

Something to Think About

Join Ben Faulks for the assembly series for children aged 5 - 7 - including a story, song, a reflection / prayer and opportunities for discussion.

Join Ben Faulks for the assembly series for children aged 5 to 7 - including a story, song, a reflection / prayer and opportunities for discussion. Something to Think About can be used to fulfil the statutory requirement for a daily act of Collective Worship in primary schools.

Something to Think About: Autumn 2017: First impressions

First impressions

Autumn 2017

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Repeated and reversioned episodes of the assembly series for 5-7 year olds.

Ben Faulks explores exploring new starts. Today he is thinking about first impressions and how it's important to be welcoming to new people.

Something to Think About: Autumn 2017

Ben Faulks returns with the assembly series for 5-7 year olds.

Playtime

Steven Kynman has songs, stories and movement activities for pre-school children.

Join Steven Kynman for songs, stories and movement activities. Lots of fun and learning for pre-school children.

Playtime: Apple

Apple

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Andy Day returns with another Playtime…and today the theme is Apple.

Andy Day presents a programme of songs, stories and movement activities. Today the theme is Apple.

The Machine Gunners

Robert Westall's famous novel set during World War Two in the fictional town of Garmouth.

Listen to The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall, abridged in 10 episodes. Set during World War Two, The Machine Gunners is the story of young Chas McGill and his friends living in the fictional town of Garmouth in the north east of England. With Nazi planes raining bombs on Garmouth night after night, every boy has a collection of war souvenirs. But nothing comes close to the machine gun which Chas pulls down from a crashed German bomber plane. While the police and Home Guard search frantically for the missing gun, Chas and his friends build a secret fortress and plan to fight the Germans themselves.

The Machine Gunners: 2: Keeping a secret

2: Keeping a secret

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Chas and his friends return to the crashed plane and saw down the machine gun.

Chas persuades his friends, Cem and Audrey, to return with him to the crashed plane and saw down the machine gun from its turret. As it falls, the machine gun discharges several rounds of bullets, attracting the attention of Constable Fatty Hardy. The children hide the gun down the leg of Cem’s Guy and carry it off on his bogie.

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Giants and Beans

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Something to Think About

Autumn 2017

First impressions

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Playtime

Apple

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The Machine Gunners

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