SHERBORNE RADIO

SHERBORNE QATAR RADIO

S HER B O RN E

QA T AR

“If you wish to build a ship, do not divide the men into teams and send them to the forest to cut wood. Instead, teach them to long for the vast and endless sea”

- The Little Prince

Passion projects inspire pupils to discover, and through that discovery they find lifelong learning strategies that not only boost attainment across subjects, but serve to produce thoughtful, industrious, and reflective people. Sherborne Qatar Radio was simply about handing over the creative control to pupils and putting their learning in their own hands. Selfishly, we grown-ups get to shed our ‘teacher’ label and become ‘guides’ ‘facilitators’ ‘critical friends’ and that is the gift these talented, able and committed pupils gave to us.

An authentic pupil led, pupil created and pupil produced work of passion, is the gift they give to the school. (Teacher Support Team)

Sherborne Qatar Radio is a team effort, ably led by Sofia Rouzier-Spinks and Syed Muzammil Abedi in the Green Team and Henry Kakkad and Muna Faisal Fahad Al Thani in the Blue Team Muzammil is the Green Team’s deputy show manager: “Sherborne Qatar Radio is a unique and original idea led by the hard work and determination of Sherborne pupils. Sherborne Qatar Radio creates stories from all aspects of the world and makes it into one 20-minute podcast for everyone to listen to and learn from”.

For Henry, the Blue Team show manager, the show represents the pupil voice:

“We cover all things which pupils are interested in and news from around the school, with pupil performances where they can express themselves and show off their talents.”

…and it is not just the final product that is part of the projects learning:

“All of this is met by a large pupil-led team working for days to create a perfect podcast with engineers, writers, editors, and many others putting in countless hours of effort and showing their perseverance through this fantastic journey. Not only has this made pupils feel connected in times of distress but it has made every pupil who has worked on this project become better team members and leaders.”

Green Show manager, Sofia, agrees about the benefits the show has had:

“During the long months of the pandemic, this radio has not only brought people together, it has given the pupils something to look forward to. Each department in the radio has contributed all their efforts to create these podcast for people to enjoy and they should all be very proud of themselves.” As far as Muzammil is concerned…this is just the beginning:

“This Year we have achieved 4 podcasts, each one building on the other and we hope next academic year we can release even more podcasts and hopefully even better ones! “