Episodes
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Tomato Tomato
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Again we have a conversation with a couple of our older students, looking at very different takes on the pandemic lock-down and quite a different set of interest out side of school, come a long and learn something more about members of our community. After all that is it soccer or football?
Friday Jun 12, 2020
'Bottle' up that enthusiasm!
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Are you a collector? Maybe you're about to be inspired! This time we talk to some of our younger students and get a pretty clear picture on how divers our school community is! Join us as we go down the rabbit hole of collecting bottles fixing old engines and riding the waves on a kite!
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
All for one and all for one's self!
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
The students today have yet another spin on recent events, listen along as we workout if we are 'doomsday preppers' or not and then we head off to the world of make believe Japanese anime and back to to earth again. Come along we get a glimpse into some more members of our school community and what makes them tick.
Friday May 29, 2020
A different look at teamwork
Friday May 29, 2020
Friday May 29, 2020
This time we speak with students who are keen 'gamers'. Working from home has created internal conflict when your leisure space becomes work space. We do get a different look at gaming as our students explain the many layers to the gaming experience and how teamwork is a big a thing as anything else when gaming.
Thursday May 21, 2020
Teaching ... That's not how you do teaching!
Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
This time around we speak with one of MHS's senior teachers, we share experiences at home and at school. Spending time looking at the monumental changes that have taken place with teaching at Macksville High and how this has made us value the personal nature of 'face to face' classroom teaching.
Thursday May 14, 2020
Wait, what? Still training!
Thursday May 14, 2020
Thursday May 14, 2020
This time we spend some time with students we determine to be 'elite athletes'. Pretty much any way you define 'elite athlete' our guests measure up. The big question is how has CoVid impacted on them, their goals and training. How do you keep your focus when those goals you had have, at least temporarily, been put on hold. Join us as we talk about these things with a pair of MHS's leading sports people.
Thursday May 07, 2020
Getting back to it!
Thursday May 07, 2020
Thursday May 07, 2020
After weeks of abnormality there is a light at the end of the tunnel for students coming back to school. In this episode we speak with some year 12 students who have just come back to school for the first time in weeks. We talk to them about their experiences of the last few weeks, how things have changed for them and maybe how they are feeling about the the future, there is even a dose of parenting advice in there too!
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Who's Teaching Whom?
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
In episode 3 we speak with a parent and student to explore the experiences they have had with the lock-down and remote learning. It turns out that everyone is learner in this new education world. Students teaching parents, parents teaching students teachers teaching parents as well as students and teachers learning how amazing our families are when it comes to rising to a challenge!
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Anzac 2020
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
A special out of series podcast where students from Macksville High School give short accounts of the significance of Anzac Day 2020. With everyone in 'lock-down' with no opportunity to remember Australia's service men and women collectively this has been a very different Anzac day for the community. The podcast crew make a few calls to some of our students to get an idea of what Anzac means at this time.
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Starting Term 2 2020 @ Macksville HS
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
After a 'crazy' end to term 1, everyone is rested after holidays going nowhere so what next? In this podcast we speak with principal Erica Lyne to get an idea of how term 2 will kick off.... in a nutshell 'not normal' is the simple answer but as we go into week 3 we hope to see some students returning to school, if only in year groups! This is 'mk2' of episode 2 after new information came to hand.