Sundee Radio 89.9 FM is a charity initiative setup by DJ Raffy Murphy to encourage school students to get involved in making discussions.
Why Sundee Radio?
Do you have a creative innovative school with students that are eager to learn new and exciting ways of communicating? Do your students want to create talk shows, radio drama, book reports and discuss issues that matter to them in a non-confrontational format?
Do you want to create a promotional drive to celebrate your school’s achievements and news, broadcasting in real time, to your school, families and the community?
Whether it is discussing important issues or sharing the music they love, radio gives your students a voice within their school.
Benefits of School Radio
Radio helps schools and academies supplement learning, to meet the National Curriculum standards in ways that you may not realise, such as:
Empowerment
Inclusion
Confidence
Speaking & listening
Literacy
Teamwork
Vocational skills
Is your school aim ‘to be the radio station that connects the curriculum of your school and delivers it to the outside world?
Sundee Radio… it’s all you need
Happy, connected schools, academies, colleges and universities enjoying creative broadcasts playing out to parents, families and communities.
Radio is powerful and gives the youngest children a reason to write, speak and a way to share their work.
Children do a lot of growing and developing between the ages of 3 and 9. At 3, children are moving out of babyhood and into childhood. They have rich imaginations, may have strong fears, and love to play physically. As they move through the preschool ages and into school ages, they become more independent and confident about trying new things. Cognitive and language development change dramatically through these ages, as children go from asking the same “why?” questions repeatedly to being able to tell stories in sequential order and enjoying jokes and riddles. Whatever your role in a child’s life (teacher, parent, or other caregiver), there are some ways to make learning productive, fun, and enjoyable for the both of you.
Do you believe that digital storytelling is important in education?
Are you looking for a creative, critical, and powerful way to help your students?
Would you be interested in a list of free digital storytelling tools?
Why It’s Story Time?
Educators have long known that the arts can contribute to student academic success and emotional well being. The ancient art of storytelling is especially well-suited for student exploration. It’s Story Time is accessible to all ages and abilities. No special equipment beyond the imagination and the power of listening and speaking is needed to create artistic images. As a learning tool, It’s Story Time can encourage students to explore their unique expressiveness and can heighten a student’s ability to communicate thoughts and feelings in an articulate, lucid manner. These transcends the experience to support daily life skills. In our fast-paced, media-driven world, storytelling can be a nurturing way to remind children that their spoken words are powerful, that listening is important, and that clear communication between people is an art.
Why It’s Story Time?More Reasons…
Gaining Verbal Skills
Becoming verbally proficient can contribute to a student’s ability to resolve interpersonal conflict nonviolently. Negotiation, discussion, and tact are peacemaking skills. Being able to lucidly express one’s thoughts and feelings is important for a child’s safety. Clear communication is the first step to being able to ask for help when it is needed.
Imagination
Both telling a story and listening to a well-told tale encourages students to use their imaginations. Developing the imagination can empower students to consider new and inventive ideas. Developing the imagination can contribute to self-confidence and personal motivation as students envision themselves competent and able to accomplish their hopes and dreams.
Passing On Wisdom
Storytelling based on traditional folktales is a gentle way to guide young people toward constructive personal values by presenting imaginative situations in which the outcome of both wise and unwise actions and decisions can be seen.
Curriculum Ideas Exchange
Do you have some interesting ideas about how to use storytelling in the classroom? Please share it with us!
Design a storytelling activity or lesson plan for classroom use featuring a story or a folktale theme.
To encourage student’s speaking and listening skills
To support one or more curriculum areas such as
Language arts
Social studies
Math
Science
Art/Music/Drama
Please describe your activity or lesson plan and share it! The best ideas submitted will be posted and credited. Please e-mail your ideas to raffybustarga@sundee-edu.com
How to Use Positive Discipline Techniques
Learn how to use this type of discipline to manage behavior problems
Positive discipline techniques can be very effective:
Positive discipline is one of the five main types of discipline that can address a variety of behavioral problems. However, many parents wonder, does positive discipline really work? Before jumping to any conclusions, it is important to educate yourself on some of the important principles of positive discipline.
Build a Positive Relationship
Proponents of positive discipline recommend that caregivers spend quality time with children each day to build a healthy relationship.
This quality time can include playing, talking, and simply enjoying one another’s company.
During this quality time, it can be beneficial to talk to your child about the feelings he experienced throughout the day. For example, ask him when during the day he felt the saddest and when he felt the happiest. Then, share the same about your day. This provides an opportunity to learn about one another and build a strong foundation for the relationship while also teaching about feelings.
Use Encouragement Liberally
Positive discipline focuses on encouragement over praise. Instead of praising kids for a job well done, encouragement focuses on a child’s efforts, even if there isn’t a successful outcome. Encouragement should celebrate a child’s improvements while motivating him to keep trying.
Encouragement can help kids recognize their full potential. It also teaches them to be more independent as they will begin to see what they are capable of doing on their own.
The key is to encourage kids in a way that makes them feel appreciated and recognized, as positive discipline is based on the belief that all kids need to feel a deep sense of belonging.
Modeling how to handle mistakes is an important part of positive discipline. For example, when you make a mistake with parenting, acknowledge it and apologize to your child.
This teaches kids the importance of taking responsibility for their own behaviors and shows the importance of learning from mistakes.
