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Action stations as school's grant win puts it on right wavelength to boost speaking skills [Derby Evening Telegraph (England)](Derby Evening Telegraph (England) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) A DELIGHTED Derby school will launch its own radio station after winning an Pounds 11,500 grant. St James' Junior School hopes the project will help develop its multi-cultural pupils' English speaking skills - with 29 different languages spoken there. The Let Teachers Shine competition saw schools from around the country enter their ideas on how they could use the cash to improve their facilities and programmes. Shine, the education charity, has donated Pounds 19.5 million to over 2,000 schools - supporting more than 63,000 children. And the radio station was the brainchild of deputy head teacher Vicky Brown, who is hoping to have the project setup by November. She said: "It is brilliant to have the opportunity to do this because we couldn't have afforded it on our own and it's good that they recognise the importance of it.'' The station will begin as an internal radio station when the school receives its first of two instalments in September. Ms Brown hopes to branch the programme out to the school website so that parents will have access to it. Broadcasts will consist of pupils reading their work - such as poems and short stories - over the portable radio equipment that will be purchased. Ms Brown said: "The idea is that each child will get a chance to record their own broadcast because we think that, by speaking formally over the radio, they will develop their understanding of how to speak, read and write the language." (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |