Radiowaves are specialists in using creative and media skills in the classroom. We have over 5 years’ experience delivering inspiring and motivating activities for students in over 700 schools across the UK.
All the skills students learn through Radiowaves are work-related and at the cutting edge of new industry technology. We work closely with organisations such as BBC Innovation Labs, The British Council, The Ministry of Justice, ITV Granada and Sky.
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Activities
For the Creative and Media Diploma (CMD) we have developed a dedicated range of activities.
Our activities offer "the workplace in the classroom". They turn your ICT suite into a freelancer’s office, production room or broadcast studio. Choose from real life dynamic activities like Newsroom, Freelancer, Roving Reporter, Going Live, Sports Reporter, Blogger, Radio Soap and NUMU record label.
Activities can run two ways:- - In-centre facilitation: our expert trainers in your centre
- - Online facilitation: CPD for your staff, then remote work with students
Each activity:
- - Is strongly work-related, based on realistic industry briefs
- - Covers a range of CMD disciplines and embeds all four themes
- - Is mapped to a specific unit or units (for all 3 awarding bodies)
- - Integrates Personal Learning and Thinking and Functional Skills
- - Can be adapted to your student numbers, run from 1 to 10 days and constitute a Project or Work Experience
Choose from eight exciting activites
Newsroom
A dynamic and work-focused activity. Create your own news team for the day working to deadlines for public publishing on the web.
Sports Reporter
Drawing on the passion and glamour of sport, students learn the specific skills involved in this unique and vibrant field. We facilitate interviews with your local sports stars and behind-the-scenes access to match days. Students work alongside pro journalists at events, and are mentored by them.
Voice It!
Students become campaign managers and build a web page on a subject of importance to them. They combine audio, video, text and images to promote their campaign. This activity represents investigative journalism covering persuasive writing and speaking, researching and interviewing relevant people.
Freelancer
This activity gives students the key skills to work as a CM professional: communication, negotiating contracts, interpreting briefs, initiative, time management and working to deadlines.
Blogger
Students produce regular text and image updates, on a theme or event, recording their personal experience. They form opinions and judgements, and portray them in an entertaining way.
Radio Soap
A drama-based activity where students develop characters, scripts and storylines over a week, culminating in a broadcast. Students learn the behind-the-scenes roles of this industry from recording sound effects to creative promotion.
Roving Reporter
Students report live from the field in or out of school. They learn independent working, on-the-spot negotiation, operating under pressure, presentation skills and adaptability.
Going Live!
A week-long activity that builds into an hour-long live webcast. Students adopt production team roles to produce a magazine programme. Going Live! represents the work pattern and skills for a weekly show: research and planning, lining/
NUMU Record Label
Students set up their own online record label, publish and market original music (their own or fellow students’), compete in charts and give and take tips and feedback. Through managing and promoting their label students employ management, budgeting, communication, negotiation and creative skills.