Radio Lingua Schools | Creative language-learning materials and workshops

Language Podcasting Summer School

This week Radio Lingua Schools has been working with 15-16 year old students from across Scotland at the S@S Accelerate programme, part of the Strathclyde University’s Innovative Routes to Learning project. The participating students signed up for a week of language-learning activities and over the past few days have taken part in challenges and debates, learned [...]

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Music and Time-lapse Photography

Pupils in P5 at St John’s Primary, South Ayrshire, recently challenged Radio Lingua Schools to support them in a project on the human body. The class had been learning about the parts of the human body including the functions of bones, muscles, organs and the skin, and their class teacher wanted to reinforce their learning [...]

Animated Storybooks with 5 Year-Olds

We recently ran a workshop with Primary 1 pupils in St Mark’s Primary in Irvine, North Ayrshire, which combined a range of curricular areas and allowed the children involved to create their own animations. Working with their teachers and teaching assistants, the pupils wrote pirate stories, and each child painted a picture linked to the [...]

North Ayrshire Mandarin Animations

Over the past few months Radio Lingua Schools has been working in conjunction with four North Ayrshire primary schools: Glebe, John Galt, Loudoun Montgomery and Castlepark on a Mandarin Animation project. Pupils in P5, P6 and P7 spent four weeks learning Mandarin Chinese using our One Minute Mandarin podcast course.
The pupils spent just five to [...]

The Animated Encyclopaedia

Over the next few weeks the children of P4 and P5 in St John’s Primary in Ayr will be taking part in a number of animation activities, leading to the development of the St John’s Animated Encyclopaedia, supported by Radio Lingua Schools. Currently P4 are working on animal habitats, and P5 are learning about parts [...]

Euroscola: reporting live from Strasbourg

Over the past few days Radio Lingua Schools has been supporting a group of Scottish students who are taking part in a debate today in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The Scottish students come from 26 different schools across Scotland and have been selected by Rotary Clubs around the country.
Euroscola days take place around 20 [...]

Projet Citoyen: Euroquiz

In November 2009, Radio Lingua Schools supported Projet Citoyen, an East Dunbartonshire initiative which aimed to raise awareness about European citizenship. With the help of a grant from the European Parliament, a group of sixth year students spent six days in Strasbourg finding out about the work of the Parliament. Radio Lingua Schools’ role was [...]

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Radio Lingua Schools provides award-winning language materials for primary, secondary and staff development, and pupil workshops combining language learning with creative digital technologies, helping participants to use their language skills with confidence.

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