Westwood Radio Podcast

It's hard to believe that this is only the second breakfast show that these children have done together! This is our last show until half term but what a way to go out with stunning scripts, superb presentation and bags of confidence. Well done everyone!

This week's Westwood Talk is a special round-up of our amazing residential week at Simonsbath House Outdoor Centre with Orchid class - our Y5/6 children. A week in the great outdoors on Exmoor, plenty of activities and everyone with so many adventures to talk of on their return. Thank you to everyone @simonsbathOC for an incredible week. We loved it!

Here is the final show broadcast from our residential at Simonsbath House Outdoor Centre in the heart of Exmoor and what a show it was. To the usual high standard with even more of our professional broadcasters stepping up to share the excitement of their day and we had birthday boy Luke hosting with Oscar too! A fantastic way to end a week of outstanding shows listened to by a record number of people!

Catch up with all the latest from our residential in Simonsbath and listen again to an absolute cracker from the common room. All of our children wrote their own scripts about their days experiences, we have a live interview with Emily, one of the centre staff, clips of the children talking about the fun they are having AND a ukulele performance from this evening's workshop. Stunning broadcasting.

Once again, Westwood Radio comes to you live from the common room at Simonsbath House Outdoor Centre with a special residential outside broadcast. Our team were behind the mic once again presenting the excitement of our day with skill and professionalism. We have had record numbers of listeners to the show this week and over 30 texts and emails to tonight's show. Thank you all so much.

Broadcasting a LIVE OB from Simonsbath House Outdoor Centre, our team were on top form as they presented their news so far from their first day. Outstanding hosting by Luke and Billy, with the usual mix of top stories and topical features, including the all important weather, tonight's show was such fun, directly from the common room to the world! Copyright music has been removed.

In this week's episode of Westwood Talk we round up the week gone by at Westwood with Iford Primary School and look ahead to our week's residential at Simonsbath House Outdoor Centre. We will, hopefully, be broadcasting live each night at around 8.30pm on Westwood Radio so do join us for our live shows on radio.westwoodwithiford.org

This week it was the turn of group 2 to take over the studio with another cracking broadcast. Full of top stories, school news and features, the group worked superbly and you would not believe that this is only their second show together. With outstanding hosting from Luke, this is yet another show you will want to listen again to. Copyright music has been removed.

the boys are back on air with a show to make us all feel very proud indeed. About 5 minutes in they asked if they could take the show over on their own. I listened from my office and marveled at their confidence, professionalism and skill behind the microphone. Beautifully presented scripts with energy and enthusiasm and excellent hosting from Oscar and Billy with off-script banter.

Today was the very first broadcast by our brand new breakfast show team. With only two children from KS2, the rest are only 6 and 7 years old and worked together beautifully to produce a top class show. You would think they had been presenting for years! Well done everyone, this was a pleasure to listen to and the best way to start the week!

Westwood Talk is back with another round up of the week's news from Westwood with Iford Primary School. This week we've had visitors in school and a very exciting visit out of school to Pizza Express, a stunning example of the power of education radio in developing confidence and literacy skills and Ruth Butler visited us from the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre to talk about the history of Westwood. So much to cram into 23 minutes!

The Friday show team are back with another cracking show for your listening pleasure. Outstanding presentation of original scripts, great banter and off-script chat as well as bags of confidence and the perfect sound track to your weekend. This is only the second show that this team have produced and the standard is incredibly high already!

The impact that education radio can have on developing literacy is huge. At the end of every show we have an End of the Show Show where all of the mics are opened up to have a chat about the topic of the day. In this show, the focus was on what we enjoy about broadcasting and featured a team of 8, 9 an 10 year old boys who have all benefited from broadcasting, script writing and working together on live shows to gain confidence and self esteem in their own writing, speaking and listening....

Here's another chance to listen to some outstanding broadcasting from our Word on the Street team who get better every week. With two new hosts, great scripting, off-script chat and a new radio riddle, this group of boys are growing in confidence and demonstrating great impact in their literacy through the use of education radio.

This week's Westwood Talk looks back on Science week in school, including the explorer dome and fun that everyone had. Plus, I visited BBC Wiltshire to review the papers with Ben Prater on air and we have all the news from around the classes.

Our radio club broadcasters were together again for another session, learning and practising the art of education radio. Once again they were SO good that we recorded our training session. Everyone took turns to present what they enjoyed about our fabulous science week that has just taken place. Well done everyone!

Today it was the turn of Group 2 to present their very first Friday Show and what a fantastic show they put together. With outstanding scripts, new features and excellent microphone technique, this was a slick and professional show from a group working together for the first time. Hosted professionally by Luke, this show is another example of the power of education radio.

The WOTS boys are back with their best show yet! Great hosting from Spike and Josh, slick presenting, plenty of off-script banter and well written features. You can hear the confidence grow as the show progresses and this is one you will definitely want to listen again to.

This week's episode looks back again on another exciting week at Westwood with Iford Primary, including food tasting, making Mayan masks and our Reception children staying for lunch. Plus, lots of exciting radio news, ways to listen via apps and looking ahead to next week's science week!

In this episode we have our very first radio club session of the year. With children from as young as Year 2 up to one Year 6 child, almost everyone was learning new skills and broadcasting technique for the very first time. As a practice we recorded a mini show - no scripts, no rehearsal, all presented from our own experiences. This deserves a listen for the professionalism shown by these very young people!