We have felt that this project has been extremely successful because we have raised the children’s attainment in literacy. We have achieved this through a creative and stimulating approach which engaged all the children from the outset. It became apparent that by removing the barriers to literacy, such as writing, and using multimodal means of learning, the children began to grow in confidence in their own abilities. Having a real audience and end product to aim for, the children found real purpose for their learning. Expectations of the children and their work were always at a high standard. Moreover, the process to which the children were working towards was always achievable, and subsequently focused their learning journey.
It was intended that the children would set up the school’s radio station in the forthcoming term, as experts. All the children expressed an avid interest in launching Diverse FM. However, we have recently heard that the head has decided to defer the setting up of the school radio station. JW and the children are still behind the project and we eagerly await to hear the progress from the school.
Having liaised with JW it is clear that the children have made excellent progress within literacy. JW has spoken to the children’s English teachers who said that the students have ‘increased in confidence in their contribution in terms of speaking and listening’. The feedback from JW is great to hear and that the project has had a profound effect on their continuing learning journey.
We are now looking forward to celebrating the success of the project at the University presentations on the 25th May alongside our peers’ creativity projects. It will be great to see the children once again and to share with them our success. Although this is closure on the project for us, it is exciting to know that the children will help to launch the school radio station.
© Sophia Koiston, Oliver Hughes and Helen Goodall 2010
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