Hollybrook Academy - Speaking Up For Ourselves: Recent Episodes
Matthew Cavanagh
A limited podcast series to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Hollybrook Academy, an Additional Support Needs school in Glasgow, Scotland.Pupils, teachers and support staff talk about life, learning and work in our school community.
Episode 2 of the Hollybrook Academy - Speaking Up for Ourselves. Some of our S5 and S6 talk about what they've learned from their time at Hollybrook and how they feel about moving on.
The pupils talk about what they think are the important lessons for who they've become as young people over the years that they've been attending the school.
Hollybrook is an Additional Support Needs (ASN) Secondary school in Glasgow, Scotland for pupils with learning disabilities to learn in a special context outside of mainstream education. One of the major focuses of the work of the school is emotional intelligence which is reflected in this conversation.
In this first episode of the Speaking Up for Ourselves podcast our S1 teachers, Jill Skelton, Michael McBride and Joseph Glen talk about their work in teaching our S1 pupils. This year we have been thinking about changing the way that pupils make the transition from Primary School to Secondary School.
At a difficult time in their lives, particularly given the challenges of COVID-19, we decided to give our new pupils more time in the one classroom with a single teacher to try to make this transition more straightforward. Jill, Michael and Joseph talk about how they see this going at the halfway point of the first year.
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Trailer for a new limited podcast series celebrating the life and work of the Hollybrook Academy community as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary.
This podcast series will launch on 19th January 2022 - the 50th Anniversary of the school being opened. It is produced by Matthew Cavanagh, a teacher in the school who has been recording conversations with some of the people who belong to the school.
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