television, radio & online guide 2007-2008 bbc.co.uk/ni/learning WELCOME Hello and welcome to the BBC NI Learning Resources Booklet for 2007-8. With the roll-out of the Revised Curriculum for Northern Ireland, BBC NI Learning is working to provide teachers and learners with flexible resources which can be mixed and matched to help deliver connected learning. We have a wealth of NI specific content available online, on radio and TV and have now redesigned our BBC NI Learning web portal to allow you to search for content in different ways. At the Foundation Stage, BBC NI Learning is collaborating with Sesame Workshop to bring a brand new TV series and website to local 3-6 year olds. Sesame Tree will offer a delightful world where children can develop a range of important life skills and learn about identity and difference. A new series of Na Dódaí is also planned, offering 3–5 year olds an exploration of themes through Irish in the unique and colourful world of the na Dódaí pop-up book. Added to these new resources, we will be transmitting repeats of our Hurley-Burley radio and TV series and a term of the radio strand One Potato Two Potato for Foundation and Key Stage 1 children. All of these series are supported by complementary content online. For Key Stage 2 children in NI, our Tandy radio series and website continue to offer new content on local themes and topics. We are providing new, free assets to help you produce a class or school musical called The Sleepover Planet; and, on TV, there’ll be six art and science related programmes in our Primary Focus series. Online, Musical Mysteries, It’s Up To You, Primary Art and Blaisín will continue to provide useful resources for Music, Health Education,Art and Irish. For learners at Key Stages 3 & 4 and beyond, we will be gathering the video and audio clips from our various BBC NI Learning sites into one easily searchable Clips Library and adding new clips to this regularly. Alongside this comprehensive library, we are launching a new site which uses the wonderful aerial footage from the BBC NI TV series Sky High to allow users to unlock the local landscape. Our existing sites for Key Stages 3 & 4 on History, Sustainable Development, Citizenship, Performing Arts, Irish and Employability continue to offer NI specific content to local learners. With the current drive to develop young entrepreneurs, we are screening the successful local business TV series The Next Level in a morning schools’ slot to give pupils another chance to learn about what it’s like to run a business in NI. In an effort to open up the BBC’s creative archive, we will be launching a new site which builds an online learning journey around previously unseen footage of BBC NI Newsline’s Mike McKimm’s Journey to Remember to the wreck of the Titanic. Work also continues on an updating and re-launch of the highly acclaimed A State Apart which offers a comprehensive overview of the NI Troubles up to the present. Local history is explored too in our rich portfolio of history sites while Colin and Cumberland host a diverting introduction to Irish. Our Communities and Campaigns resources and projects provide a wealth of useful information and support to local adults. The end of formal education no longer means the end of learning and today we all expect to continue learning throughout our lives. In order to help those with limited access to online resources, we are broadcasting Learning Teabreak, a new adult learning radio series in partnership with BBC Radio Ulster’s popular Saturday Magazine series. The aim is to help de-mystify new technology for the listener and, in digestible learning bites, give lots of useful and inspirational information on a range of life-skills. We hope you’ll enjoy all these resources from the BBC NI Learning Team. JANE CASSIDY EDITOR, LEARNING MEET THE TEAM BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT LAURA SPENCE | PETER MATASSA | KEITH TORMEY | PADDY BREEN | PATRICK WATSON | JOHN McALISKEY | ALAN McLOUGHLIN THIRD ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT COLIN McENTEE | DOUGIE CARNEY | ROSEMARY O'KANE | MEABH MURRAY | ELLEN BELL SECOND ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT ETTA HALLIDAY | PHYLLIS McFARLANE | PAUL HASLAM | EMMA MAJURY | DEIRDRE HARVEY | ELEANOR FERGUSON | JUDITH SMITH FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT PATRICK SPEIGHT | CONNAIRE McCULLOUGH | MUIREANN NIC CÁBA | JANE CASSIDY | SUSAN JOHNSON THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF THE LEARNING TEAM WERE NOT AVAILABLE FOR THE PHOTOGRAPH THIS YEAR ELEANOR DILLON | CLAIRE ARCHIBALD | EMMA DUNSEITH | SEÁN Ó DÚROIS | MONICA SHIELDS | MARIE GRAY EVELYN McGRATH | MARGERY QUINN | RÓISÍN KELLEHER | CATHY WALKER CONTACT US BBC NORTHERN IRELAND LEARNING, BBC BROADCASTING HOUSE, ORMEAU AVENUE, BELFAST BT2 8HQ JANE CASSIDY (EDITOR, LEARNING) OR LAURA SPENCE (LEARNING MARKETING EXECUTIVE) TEL: 028 9033 8435 EMAIL: [email protected] CONTENTS FOUNDATION & KEY STAGE 1 Sesame Tree TV/Online Page 5 Hurley Burley Radio Series 3 Radio Page 6 Hurley Burley TV Series 1 TV Page 7 Na Dódaí Series 1 TV Page 8 Na Dódaí Series 2 TV Page 9 One Potato,Two Potato Radio Page 10 KEY STAGE 2 Musical Mysteries Online Page 11 It’s Up to You Online Page 12 The Sleep-Over Planet Musical Online Page 13 Primary Focus Science and Art TV Page 14 Blaisín Radio Page 15 Tandy Radio Page 16 Tandy Interactive Online Page 19 KEY STAGE 3-4 The Next Level TV Page 20 Go Get It! Online Page 21 Key Stage 3 Citizenship Online Page 22 Eyewitness Online Page 23 Sustainable Development Online Page 24 Landscapes Unlocked Online Page 25 Blast NI Multi-media Page 26 A State Apart Broadband Page 28 GCSE Bitesize Irish History Online Page 29 The Good Friday Agreement Online Page 29 The Plantation of Ulster Online Page 30 The Easter Rising Online Page 30 GCSE Bitesize Irish Language Online Page 31 LEARNING FOR ALL Journey to The Titanic Online Learning Journey Page 32 William III Online Learning Journey Page 33 Learning Clips Library Online Page 34 Get Writing NI Online Page 34 Colin & Cumberland TV/Online Page 35 Learning Tea-break Radio/Online Page 36 Blueprint Multi-media Page 37 COMMUNITIES AND CAMPAIGNS Big Yellow Bus Page 38 RaW Page 39 Storyfinders Page 40 Video Nation Page 40 Breathing Places Page 41 Healthy Minds Page 42 Mind Yourself Page 42 No Home NI Page 42 BBC NI Learning Information Page 43 BBC Northern Ireland Learning bbc.co.uk/ni/learning FOUNDATION & KEY STAGE 1 SESAME TREE • AGES 3 - 6 • 2007/08 • BBC Two Northern Ireland • Check website for transmission details - bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesametree BBC Northern Ireland Learning is collaborating with Sesame Workshop* to bring a brand new TV series and website to Northern Ireland children. Produced in Northern Ireland especially for local 3-6 year olds, Sesame Tree will offer a delightful world within which children can develop a range of important life skills and learn about identity and difference. The series is set in a spreading tree, located somewhere in Northern Ireland. Few people know the secret, but some children have discovered that there are two “Muppets” living inside the tree! When children bring their questions to the tree, these original Northern Ireland characters created in the style of the lovable Sesame Street Muppets, take them on a fantastic journey in search of answers. Each 15-minute episode will include a documentary visit with children and adults in Northern Ireland, segments from the rich Sesame Street library, and a visit with children in another part of the world. While discovering new perspectives on local questions about things like friendships, family and celebrations, clips from the Sesame Street archive will help the children to look outwards and learn about their peers around the world. Young children have an immense curiosity about the world. Respect for and appreciation of the wonder of our planet and of other people begins with the development of self-esteem. Sesame Tree television and online resources aim to help children to develop respect for themselves along with a range of other important life skills, based upon learning goals in the new Foundation Stage curriculum for Northern Ireland. The complementary BBC NI website will reflect the colourful world of the TV show and offer clips from the series as well as interactive discovery games, designed for local 3-6 year olds. Website resources will help our youngest learners to develop thinking and decision-making skills while sewing the seeds of love of learning and respectful curiosity about others. As the new curriculum for Northern Ireland is rolled out, this TV series and website, along with specially developed community outreach materials, will provide valuable resources for parents, teachers and care- givers in the delivery of personal development, thinking skills, and life skills to Foundation Stage children. * Founded in 1968, Sesame Workshop is best known for its award winning series, Sesame Street, which has been enjoyed in more than 120 countries in either its English-language version or in local adaptations. Local productions are created through a collaborative research and production process in which local educators, researchers, psychologists, child development experts, public health specialists and others help determine educational goals for a programme that reflects the cultural, social, and educational needs of children in a particular country. bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesametree 5 21 BBC Northern Ireland Learning bbc.co.uk/ni/learning HURLEY-BURLEY RADIO SERIES 3 • AGES 3 - 5 • Spring 2008,Tuesdays: 11.40 - 11.51am • BBC Radio Ulster MW 1341 • Producer: Bernagh Brims • Programmes available on CD - see page 43 for details This is the third in the popular Hurley-Burley radio series for children in P1, reception class, nursery, playgroup, crèche, daycare or listening at home.