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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: Rainbow and Gold

Rainbow and Gold

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Cat Sandion has more songs, rhymes and listening games to join in with and today the story is ‘Pot of Gold.’

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: Remembrance... our memories

Remembrance... our memories

Autumn 2017

School Radio - Something to Think About, Autumn 2017, Remembrance... our memories

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

Ben Faulks with the second programme exploring the theme of remembering. Today he is thinking about our memories and what makes them special.

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: Boot

Boot

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Andy Day presents another Playtime including a song, story and movement activity.

Andy Day has his boots on for today's programme which includes a song, story and a simple movement activity.

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: 8: Closing in

8: Closing in

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The Fortress now has a third resident, but the authorities are growing suspicious.

After Rudi blunders into Fortress Caparetto, the children hold him captive with his own gun. But a rapport develops between them and life settles into an amiable routine. Meanwhile, the authorities are growing more and more convinced that the children have the gun and are closing in.

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Listen and Play

Rainbow and Gold

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Something to Think About

Autumn 2017

Remembrance... our memories

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Playtime

Boot

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The Machine Gunners

8: Closing in

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