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National Hospital Broadcasting Campaign

Hospital Broadcasting Week 2008 starts on Saturday 29th March to Sunday 6th April 2008

Organised by Hospital Broadcasting Association their aim is to highlight the importance of hospital radio ~ a vital part of the communication network within hospital's wards.

If you're due a visit to hospital or would like to get more involved with your own local station you can find deatils on who to contact through here ~ Local Hospital Radio Stations

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Another great opportunity to swap the role play corner equipment and introduce your own Radio Station !

Personal Social & Emotional Development

:star: Radio Listener - Request sheets
Use these Activity sheets to collect your children's radio requests ... tear the bottom strip off & leave them with the activity !!

:star: What effect does a hospital radio station have ?

Talk to the children about how they think listening to the radio would help patients to feel better.
How would they be feeling if they were in hospital - Lonely, Sad, Bored, Fed up, missing people and things at home ?
Would listening to music and people talking make some of those feelings go away?

Mathmatics

:star: Have SONG POLL Chart !
Take votes on favourite songs, rhymes or poems and build charts to examine number.

Communication Language & Literature
:shootings Make play lists and take song requests!
:shootings Turn circle time into mini 'Radio interviews'
Have each child come up in turn and say their name, how old they are and why they like their Preschool.

Knowledge & Understand of the World
:star: Information Technology
Record the children playing instruments and allow them to play back.

:star: History
:shootings Look at music play equipment through the ages ..
Radios
Turntables & vinyl records
CD players,
Mini discs
MP3 players

Physical
Dance alongside patient requests ..

Creative
:star: MUSIC
Experiment with different types of musical intruments and keyboards.

:star: ROLE PLAY
:shootings Make a radio station in your home corner !
Include cds, cassette players, karaoke machines, radios and microphones, headphones ... table, chairs pens & paper.
An ON & OFF AIR sign
Telephones

:star: CRAFT
:shootings Make radio station recievers with junk modelling boxes & tubes.

:star: COOKING ~ snack time foods
:shootings Small liquorice red & black circles/wheels
:shootings Microphone Ice Cream cones !!

:shootings Make a Mixing Console

SWEET
Rectangular biscuits as the mixing console base !

Sweets for the buttons, knobs & dials: chocolate buttons/drops, grapes, raisins and cherries.

Icing sugar & water ~ mix to a paste and spread over the biscuit to stick the 'buttons in place.

SAVOURY mixing console
Use crackers as the base.
Cream cheese as the 'glue !!
Cucumber chunks, halved cherry tomatoes, carrot pieces and apple chunks.

Talk about how the buttons and switches on a mixing console makes the sounds & voices mix together .. they make certain instruments sound louder & quieter than others.