oakwood Summer 2011 - Oakwood Park Grammar School

presenter rob wasequally impressedon the radioMUSIC, money and the media were amongst the many topics us@oakwood reporters quizzed presenters from a local radio stationabout when they visited school.Breakfast presenters Rob Wills and Nic Fletcher from Kmfm Extracame straight from their show The Extra Big One, to give us a talkand workshop on radio presenting and production.They filled the team in on the new station, how to get into jobs inradio and the media, and about the industry itself.Year 7 reporter Cameron McIntosh said: “It was interesting to learnall about what goes into producing a radio show.“Normally I wouldn’t listen to radio but kmfm extra has persuadedme to listen to more.“The media is certainly an industry I’m interested in for a futurecareer so it’s always useful to hear from people who work in theindustry.”He said: “It was brilliant visiting the guys at Oakwood and was reallygood to chat to students who knew about radio.“Oakwood has been one of our best schools yet as the studentswere really interested and engaged with what we had to say.”Earlier in the day we took part in ashorthand master class to keepbrushing up those journalistic skills!mr dwinell takes musicHERE is one of the many sketches done of MrDwinell by some of the primary school children heteaches. Each week Mr Dwinell visits different primaryschools offering a variety of music and literacyenhancement, mostly to key stage 2.For Music he introduces the pupils to basic rhythmrecognition, a steady sense of beat and theinstruments of the orchestra. For more advanced orable groups, the pupils work with ‘boomwhackers’something different to the pupils,in content and presentationand other class instruments to perform a variety ofensemble pieces.to local primary schoolsFor Literacy Mr Dwinell displays a number of hisphotographs of animals for the children to respondto. The results of a morning’s work are very often thebeginning of exceptionally insightful poetry.Mr Dwinell said: “By offering something differentto the pupils, in content and presentation, the classteachers have the rare opportunity to view their ownclass learning from a different adult. The pupils canrelate to the visiting teacher with a ‘fresh start’ andoften display engagement in a new and special way.”The ‘portrait’ of Mr Dwinell shown here came from yr3 at Brookfiled Primary.