BBC School Radio on CD Primary Guide 2010/2011
bbc.co.uk/schoolradio Welcome
Welcome to the Guide to BBC School Radio programmes. The Guide includes details of all the series that will be available on CD in the 2010/2011 academic year, as well as details of how to order and information about Teacher’s Notes to support the programmes. Ordering the CDs is simple. You can use the pull-out form in the centre of the Guide or you can phone or fax your order to 0370 977 2727. You can also email your order to [email protected]. The order form can also be printed from the School Radio website at: bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/howtoorder.shtml
Please remember to add the cost of postage to your completed order which should be returned to: BBC Schools’ Broadcast Recordings, PO Box 504, Leicester, LE94 0AE
Download School Radio programmes In 2010/2011 most School Radio series – including Let’s Move, Time to Move, Something to Think About and Together – will also be available to download as podcasts. Programmes can be downloaded from the School Radio website for 7 days following transmission (or from leading podcast directories, including iTunes). Downloading programmes this way is simple and copies may be kept for as long as you wish. More information here: www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/podcasts.shtml
Recording programmes off-air Programmes are transmitted overnight on Radio 4 Digital during term time, starting at 0300. A full schedule for each term is available at the School Radio website. Schools are permitted to record and use programmes under the provision of the ERA Act. For further information please contact: ERA Ltd. Tel: 020 7837 3222 Email: [email protected] Website: era.org.uk
Contents
BBC School Radio website ...... 1
Teacher’s Notes ...... 2
Early Learning ...... 3
English and Drama ...... 4-5
Mathematics ...... 6
PHSE / Citizenship ...... 6
Dance ...... 7-8
Music ...... 8-9
History ...... 10
Collective Worship ...... 11
Scotland ...... 12
Gaelic ...... 13
bbc.co.uk/schoolradio BBC School Radio website bbc.co.uk/schoolradio This year the School Radio website will have a brand new look! It’s your one-stop-shop for all School Radio resources, including:
online Teacher’s Notes which are simple (and free) to print or download links to School Radio podcasts for downloading the resources ordering information for School Radio CDs including the order form additional information about programmes including photographs, transcripts and links to other resources a comprehensive audio on demand service for all programmes
The School Radio website also offers a range of audio resources that can be accessed at any time. These include: History – World War 2 Audio Clips Library Í bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/history/ worldwar2audioclipslibrary.shtml The collection of audio clips supporting study of the home front during World War 2 has recently been updated to include video. It’s an ideal resource for sharing audio with arresting focus images via your Interactive White Board.
Early Learning – Stimulus Sounds Library Í bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/earlylearning/ stimulussoundslibrary.shtml Here you’ll find a library of 200 plus sound effects. They have been arranged by popular themes – e.g. ‘weather’, ‘animals’, ‘jobs’. They are intended as a stimulus for you to use as you wish.
Music Workshop – Heroes of Troy Í bbc.co.uk/schools/troy/index.shtml This website brings a dramatic series from Music Workshop to the web. Heroes of Troy offers seven songs to learn, linking to the story of the Trojan War. The website includes Teacher’s Notes, words and music for all the songs, backing tracks…and your vocal coach David Grant is on hand to teach all of the songs!
bbc.co.uk/schoolradio 1 Teacher’s Notes
Teacher’s Notes to support programmes are available from the School Radio website. They can be accessed from either the individual programme pages or from the Teacher’s Notes section at: bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/ teachersnotes/
As well as Notes for the current year you will find an archive of previous publications dating back to 2005 – useful when searching for Notes to accompany a series transmitted in a previous year.
Resources provided by BBC Active
Publications and other resources to support some Music series are available from BBC Active. These should be ordered using a separate order form from BBC Active. For further information contact:
BBC Active Customer Services, PO Box 88, Harlow CM20 2JE Tel: 0870 830 8000 (Mon to Fri 0830 to 1730) Fax: 0870 830 8002
Email: [email protected] Website: www.bbcactive.com/schoolshop
Please note that supporting resources for the Music series broadcast in 2010/2011 will be available from the School Radio website.
School Radio programmes in mp3 format on DVD
You can also order a complete term of programmes in mp3 format on a single DVD.
Providing the output in mp3 file format:
takes account of changing ICT provision in schools
enables schools to integrate School Radio audio into multi-media learning
allows greater flexibility and portability – for example, by transferring the programmes to an mp3 player, which can then be attached to a hi-fi in the normal way
enables schools to explore a wider range of the audio resources on offer
2 bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/teachersnotes/ Early Learning
Listen and Play Stimulus Sounds NEW Age: 3–5 Age: 3–5+
Curriculum links: Early Years Curriculum links: Early Years Foundation Stage Foundation stage / En 1 Speaking and Listening This popular series returns again. In all there are 28 programmes spread across the year, fostering The programmes offer a range of listening early literacy skills through a mix of traditional games and plenty of interactivity designed songs and rhymes, stories and listening games. to foster aural discrimination skills and to The series has been developed in association provide stimulus for discussion and a range with the National Literacy Trust and the complete of other work. The themes covered in the set provides a fantastic resource that the children programmes link to popular Early Years topics. will enjoy time and time again. These programmes are also supported online by the Stimulus Sounds Library – a collection Autumn 2010 of 200 plus stimulus sounds for you to use as you wish. Go to: bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/ 10 x 15’ programmes Code: 0701LIPLC earlylearning/stimulussoundslibrary.shtml
Spring 2011 Autumn 2010
10 x 15’ programmes Code: 0802LIPLC 5 x 15’ programmes Code: 1001STSOC
Summer 2011 Playtime NEW 8 x 15’ programmes Code: 0803LIPLC Age: 3–5
Curriculum links: Early Years Foundation stage Playtime returns with new programmes offering a fun collection of songs, stories and simple movement activities – lots to join in with and lots of fun! There are 28 programmes across the year and the complete set provides a resource that you’ll return to time and time again.
Autumn 2010
10 x 15’ programmes Code: 1001PLAYC
Spring 2011
10 x 15’ programmes Code: 1102PLAYC
Summer 2011
8 x 15’ programmes Code: 1103PLAYC Subscribe to Listen and Play as a podcast
bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/earlylearning 3 A English and Drama The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Age: 5-9
Curriculum links: English En1, En2; NLS Years 1–4 This is an enchanting collection of some of the best known of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy Bernard Cribbins reads The Wind in the Willows tales, including ‘The Emperor’s new clothes’, ‘The Ugly Ducking’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’. The Wind in the Willows The story readers include David Tennant and Sir Derek Jacobi. The stories are selected to Age: 7-11 support the range of reading indicated in the National Literacy Strategy across Years 1 to 4. Curriculum links: English En1, En2; NLS Years 3 – 6 Summer 2011 8 x 15’ programmes Code: 1003SHCAC This is an exciting abridgement of Kenneth Grahame’s classic tale of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad, richly enhanced with music and sound effects and read by Bernard Cribbins. Perfect for supporting study of a classic, extended text.
Spring 2011
10 x 15’ programmes Code: 1002WILOC
This is an online service offering a range of video and audio clips supporting a wide range of curriculum areas and age groups. The resources are searchable by David Tennant – reads The brave tin soldier key words and are available to view or listen and The fir tree to at any time.
Class Clips includes a range of audio To order CDs, please use the resources from School Radio, making it a order form in the centre of this useful tool for extending the use of audio in brochure, or call 0370 977 2727 the classroom. Go to: or visit bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/ bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/ howtoorder.shtml
4 bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/english A English and Drama A Christmas Carol
Age: 9–11
Curriculum links: English En1, En2; NLS Years 5 / 6 Charles Dickens’ classic ghost story is abridged in nine episodes and read by Alan Smith. The abridgement is faithful to Dickens’ original language, making this an ideal series to support study of a classic, extended text at Years 5 and 6.
There are transcripts of each episode at the School Radio website. Go to: bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/english/ achristmascarol_audiolinks.shtml Jeremy Strong – features in Meet the Authors Autumn 2010
9 x 15’ programmes Code: 0901CRCAC
Meet the Authors NEW
Age: 7–11
Curriculum links: English En1, En2; NLS Years 3–6 A group of leading writers meet children to discuss their work and provide unique insights into their writing process. Each programme paints a frank and revealing portrait of its subject. An ideal accompaniment to the study of each author’s work.
The interviews from these programmes will also be available at any time from the School Radio website.
See: bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/english/ meettheauthors.shtml
Summer 2011
8 x 15’ programmes Code: 1103MEAUC
Unit titles: 8 new authors
bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/english 5 3 Mathematics
Megamaths
Age: 7–9 This is an online service offering a Curriculum links: Maths KS2 Years 3 / 4 range of video and audio clips supporting a wide range of curriculum areas and age Megamaths is an ideal resource to help pupils groups. The resources are searchable by brush up their mental maths by taking part in key words and are available to view or listen these fun quizzes aimed at consolidating their to at any time. skills. The topics covered in the series are: money, length, weight, capacity, time, fractions Class Clips includes a range of audio and decimals. resources from School Radio, making it a useful tool for extending the use of audio in the classroom. Go to: Summer 2011 bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/ 8 x 15’ programmes Code: 0903MEMAC
PSHE / Citizenship
Have your say! Clips PSHE
Age: 7–11 Age: 9–11
Curriculum links: KS2 PSHE / Citizenship Curriculum links: KS2 PSHE / Citizenship ONLINE ONLY, CD NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE ONLY, CD NOT AVAILABLE These interactive audio resources are available These online resources are presented by from the BBC School Radio website only. Barney Harwood of CBBC and explore a range The topics have been chosen to offer a broad of issues of concern to young people as a range of appeal and link closely to the curriculum means to promote awareness and foster guidelines at KS2. Each topic comprises a lively discussion. short drama (in two parts), real children talking The following topics are covered: Transitions about the issues involved and a range of online (Moving house, Moving school, Bereavement); resources including focus pictures. Relationships (Divorce, Making friends, Peer It’s an ideal resource for combining audio and pressure) and Diversity (Disability, Respecting images on an IWB… and guaranteed to promote age, Body difference). Go to: lively classroom discussion. The resources bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/pshecitizenship/ are available at: bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/ clipspshe.shtml pshecitizenship/haveyoursayclips.shtml
6 bbc.co.uk/schoolradio Dance
Time to Move Age: 6–8 Curriculum links: PE (dance) KS1 / KS2 and cross-curricular links The series encourages imaginative and creative movement responding to a range of stimuli. It presents opportunities for co-operation, performance and sharing of ideas and explores dance from different times and cultures. Time to Move offers a weekly dance session, carefully structured and clearly presented.
Autumn 2010 NEW
10 x 20’ programmes Code: 1001TIMOC Justin Fletcher from Let’s Move UiUnit titles: il A traditional di i l hharvest, DiDiwali, li DiDinosaurs, A Victorian Christmas Let’s Move Age: 4–6 Spring 2011
Curriculum links: PE (dance) KS1 and 10 x 20’ programmes Code: 1002TIMOC cross-curricular links Unit titles: Traditional stories, The water cycle, Let’s Move is the foundation of School Radio’s Pattern world dance resources. It uses carefully chosen music – often specially composed for the series – to Summer 2011 NEW encourage children to respond to sound and 8 x 20’ programmes Code: 1103TIMOC explore their thoughts and feelings. Programmes are often inspired by key infant topics and by Unit titles: 8 new programmes popular stories, providing opportunities to extend the dance into other areas of the curriculum.
Autumn 2010
10 x 20’ programmes Code: 0901LEMOC
Unit titles: Noah, Fireworks, Pirates, The Musicians of Bremen
Spring 2011 NEW
10 x 20’ programmes Code: 1102LEMOC
Unit titles: 10 new programmes
Summer 2011
8 x 20’ programmes Code: 1003LEMOC
Unit titles: People who help us, Can we build it?, Nursery rhymes, Summer holidays
bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/dance 7 Dance
Dance Workshop Age: 9–11 Music for Dance Age: 7–11 Curriculum links: PE (dance) KS2 and Curriculum links: PE (dance) KS2 and cross-curricular links cross-curricular links The series targets the dance objectives at KS2 by The series provides sequences of music that ensuring pupils have an opportunity to respond to link to key curriculum areas of study providing a a range of stimuli and perform dances including a flexible dance resource that will help you to use range of movement patterns, including those from dance to explore other areas of the curriculum and other times and cultures. It also includes plenty build towards a performance if you wish. of opportunities for pupils to compose their own dances and assess the work of their peers. Autumn 2010 10 x 15’ programmes Code: 0901MUDAC Autumn 2010 Unit titles: The elements, World War 2, Ancient Egypt, 10 x 20’ programmes Code: 1001DAWOC Historical hits Unit titles: Hip hop step, Odysseus’s voyage Summer 2011 NEW
Spring 2011 NEW 8 x 15’ programmes Code: 1103MUDAC 10 x 20’ programmes Code: 1102DAWOC Unit titles: 8 new programmes Unit titles: 10 new programmes
Music
Music Workshop Age: 9–11 ‘Heroes of Troy’ online The Music Workshop series ‘Heroes of Curriculum links: Music KS2 and cross- Troy’ is now available online: bbc.co.uk/ curricular links to History and Literacy schools/troy/index.shtml Each series builds towards a class or whole school This resource has been designed to enable performance through careful rehearsal of a range schools to enjoy the full range of activities of songs, written in a broad range of musical styles. offered by School Radio music series but Our programmes this year have strong cross- without the need to purchase additional curricular links. Romeo and Juliet is based on the publications. At the Heroes of Troy website you will find all the resources needed – play by William Shakespeare and is an ideal way to including Teacher’s Notes, lyrics, music extend study of the play into Music. notation and backing tracks to download, Note: publications to support this series will be specially adapted for online, Interactive available from the School Radio website. White Board use – to mount your own special musical performance based on Autumn 2010 the story of the Trojan War. It’s an ideal resource for combining Music with the Key 10 x 20’ programmes Code: 1001MUWOC Stage 2 History topic Ancient Greece. Unit title: Romeo and Juliet
8 bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/music Music
The Song Tree Age: 5–7 Music Extra Age: 7–11
Curriculum links: Music KS1 Curriculum links: Music KS2 and and links to literacy cross-curricular links An ideal way to foster early music skills, the This series offers a range of music grouped by series will get infants singing along to the theme and curriculum area that is suitable for a specially-composed songs and listening carefully range of purposes (music, assemblies, times for to the stories. This year’s new series is Jack and reflection, as a stimulus for creative work, dance, the Beanstalk – a lively retelling of the traditional drama, etc). It’s a flexible resource for the whole story, making the series an ideal way to combine of KS2. The units offered in the Spring term music and literacy. Then, in the Summer term, target History (Tudors, Victorians, World War 2 there’s another chance to hear the popular etc) and Geographical locations (India, China, seaside series Beside the sea. Africa, etc). Note: publications to support this series will be available from the School Radio website. Spring 2011 10 x 15’ programmes Code: 0802MUEXC Spring 2011 NEW Unit titles: History, Geography 10 x 20’ programmes Code: 1102SOTRC
Unit title: Jack and the Beanstalk Age: 7–9 Summer 2011 Time and Tune
8 x 20’ programmes Code: 1103SOTRC Curriculum links: Music KS2
Unit title: Beside the sea Programmes target the objectives of the music curriculum, with an emphasis on singing but with opportunities to listen and appraise. The two series this year link to popular history topics. In the Autumn term we offer Evacuees, linking to World War 2. In the Spring term the series is Persephone, about the Ancient Greek myth. Both series offer an ideal way to combine Music, Literacy and History!
Note: publications to support this series will be available from the School Radio website.
Autumn 2010
10 x 20’ programmes Code: 1001TITUC
Heroes of Troy Unit title: Evacuees
Spring 2011
CD packs cost £5.99 each 9 x 20’ programmes Code: 1003TITUC plus VAT and delivery Unit title: Persephone
bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/music 9 History
History Clips: The Victorians
Age: 9-11
Curriculum links: History KS2
ONLINE ONLY, CD NOT AVAILABLE This series is now available to listen to at any time online at: bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/history/ victoriansaudioclipslibrary.shtml
Use the search field to find resources relating to famous individuals (including Brunel, Winston Churchill Livingstone and Mary Seacole), key events (like the development of railways and important Britain since the 1930s inventions) and the lives of children from a variety of backgrounds. Age: 9-11
Curriculum links: History KS2 History Clips: Tudors These programmes mine the BBC Sound Age: 9-11 Archive to support this key history topic. In the programmes you’ll hear key speeches, eye witness accounts, music and the most evocative Curriculum links: History KS2 sounds of the historical period. There is a focus on technological and social changes since 1930, ONLINE ONLY, CD NOT AVAILABLE including the spread of transport, TV and mass This series is now available to listen to at any communication and the advent of computers time online at: and the digital age. The series includes two bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/history/ programmes focusing exclusively on World tudorsaudioclipslibrary.shtml War 2 with an emphasis on the lives of children during the war years. Barney Harwood of CBBC presents comic sketches and short dramatisations about Tudor Autumn 2010 topics, including the lives of rich and poor, town 5 x 15’ programmes Code: 0902BSNTC and country, medicine, popular pastimes, food, jobs and punishments. Many of the archive recordings used in this series are available to listen to at any time by To order CDs, please use the going to the History section of the School Radio order form in the centre of this website. Go to: brochure, or call 0370 977 2727 bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/history/ or visit bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/ britainsincethe1930s.shtml howtoorder.shtml bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/history worldwar2audioclipslibrary.shtml
10 bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/history Collective Workshop
Together Age: 7–11 NEW Something to NEW Curriculum links: Collective Think About Worship and cross-curricular links Age: 5-7 Together provides a complete assembly resource for juniors, drawing on material from Curriculum links: Collective Worship a broad range of cultural and religious sources. and cross-curricular links Each programme includes a story and song and opportunities for reflection. It’s ideal for either Paul Ewing returns with the assembly series whole school or class use. for infants, which draws on a broad range of religious, spiritual and social themes. Each Autumn 2010 NEW programme includes a story, song, a reflection/ prayer and opportunities for discussion. 10 x 15’ programmes Code: 1001TOGEC
Unit titles: It’s good to be me; Raise your voice; Autumn 2010 NEW Making a difference 10 x 15’ programmes Code: 1001STTAC
Spring 2011 NEW Unit titles: Let me tell you a story; Remembering the past; Gifts 10 x 15’ programmes Code: 1102TOGEC
Unit titles: 10 new programmes Spring 2011 NEW 10 x 15’ programmes Code: 1102STTAC Summer 2011 NEW Unit titles: 10 new programmes 8 x 15’ programmes Code: 1103TOGEC
NEW Unit titles: 8 new programmes Summer 2011 8 x 15’ programmes Code: 1103STTAC Stories for Unit titles: 8 new programmes Collective Worship Age: 5–11
Curriculum links: Collective Worship and cross-curricular links This series offers a collection of the stories from both Something to Think About and Together. The stories have been chosen to reflect a broad range of themes and sources and are an ideal accompaniment to your own assemblies or can be used to support a range of other work across a number of subject areas.
Spring 2011
10 x 15’ programmes Code: 1102SFCWC
bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/collectiveworship 11 Scotland – Curriculum for Excellence
PODCASTS ONLY, NOT AVAILABLE ON CD
From Autumn 2010 programmes to support the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence will be available as podcasts only – they will not be available to order on CD. This means you will be able to download the programmes for seven days following transmission in mp3 file format. Subscribe to the podcasts to ensure that you don’t miss a programme. Then you’ll be able to keep the programmes and have Scottish Learners Early the flexibility to use them in any class environment. / 1st Level
For more information about all of the Autumn 2010 programmes and the podcasts, go to the School Radio Scotland website: Podcasts available from 24/09/2010 www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradioscotland Soundstory: stories for Early Years consisting of sound effects and music but no words. Nina and the Neurons Go Inventing: radio episodes of the popular television show, with Nina exploring how familiar items were invented and how they work.
Spring 2011
Podcasts available from 18/01/2011
Movement First: music and movement for Early/First stage physical education. Hop, Skip and Jump – Katie Morag: repeats of the classic music and movement series.
To order CDs, please use the order form in the centre of this brochure, or call 0370 977 2727 or visit bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/ howtoorder.shtml
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PODCASTS ONLY, NOT AVAILABLE ON CD
Scottish Learners 2nd Level
Autumn 2010
Podcasts available from 24/09/2010
Landscapes/Soundscapes: documentary pieces which encourage pupils to listen to the world around and think about Scotland’s changing Spring 2011 landscapes. Money-Go-Round: financial education case studies to inspire discussions about money. Podcasts available from 19/01/2011 Where’s Charlie? an open-ended, issue-based Boys + Girls: dramas looking at issues around drama, set in Shieldinch (River City), for use as a growing up and relationships. creative workshopping tool. Q&A: an interview series in which school Decisions Decisions: a look at decision-making, children research and quiz prominent figures. from the decisions we make ourselves to those Scottish Music – Farewell tae Tarwathie: music made in the Scottish Parliament. workshop on the traditional song. Food Dilemmas: examining opposing sides of Newsmaker in the News: the story of arguments about what we eat and where it Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent, comes from. who was shot in Riyadh in 2004, leaving A Sense of History: an oral history of childhood him paraplegic. in Scotland through the decades, with particular emphasis on the five senses.
This is an online service offering a range of video and audio clips supporting a wide range of curriculum areas and age groups. The resources are searchable by key words and are available to view or listen to at any time.
Class Clips includes a range of audio resources from School Radio, making it a useful tool for extending the use of audio in the classroom. Go to: bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/
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