Imagination in Education: Recent Episodes
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Intelligent, joyful, useful, visionary talk, interviews, insights about using our imagination in education. Produced by the staff, pupils,and students of Liverpool College through LCPress We bring you guests from every walk of life and every background who share their personal experience of school and the impact that experience has had in their lives. They also share their dreams and hopes about how schools could become even better.Read about us at www.lcpress.org.uk
In this first part of the Music Scholar podcast, Mr Harvey gets to chat with some of our students in the Senior Phase of Liverpool College about their role as a Music Scholar and what being a Music Scholar involves and their musical education at LC.
Lewis Harvey gets to chat with Aimee McDonald, a Teacher of Chapter 4 in the Prep School. Aimee discusses with Lewis about her journey, time and experience at Liverpool College!
Lewis Harvey gets to chat with George Chalmers, a Teacher in EYFS whilst also having to balance the roles of being the Dean of Chapter 1 and Geography Subject Lead.
Lewis Harvey chats with Foundation Director of the Liverpool College Foundation (LCF): Ric Thompson about his, journey, time and experience at Liverpool College.
Mr Harvey asks questions to children in Chapter 5 about their time and journey in the Prep School!
Ken Siviter, OL joins us on this week's episode of LC Radio as he discusses with Mr Harvey about his time and journey at Liverpool College.
Henry Cartwright, OL (2007-2016) chats with Mr Harvey about his fond memories and time at Liverpool College.
Mr Harvey continues interviewing students of the Liverpool College Prep School. This time he gets to chat with students in Chapter 6 about their time and journey at Liverpool College.
Mr Harvey gets to chat with the 2024 Primary Prefect Team as they get to discuss about their role as a Prefect as they continue to represent the Primary Phase at Liverpool College.
Adam Pepper is well-known for visiting Liverpool College delivering workshops with the staff and students of LC, he works with them on whatever topic they’re studying in history or geography. Adam enjoys sharing his passion for filmmaking and cinema. Adam used to be an actor and director, and he is now a Primary School teacher and the owner of Silverscreen Primary.
Robbie Newton is our Health & Safety Officer as well as being our Contingent Commander of the Liverpool College Combined Cadet Force (CCF). We get to listen to Robbie as he tells us how he operates and balances his two important roles within Liverpool College.
Claire Robinson, our former Primary Maths Coordinator. Lewis Harvey gets to chat with Claire about what she's currently up too, her passion for maths and together we reflect on her time at LC.
After being nominated by Mr Brimage in the previous episode, Mx Roberts is next in line on the guest list for LC Radio!
Mr Harvey interviews Mx Roberts, a LSA and a 1 to 1 in the Primary Phase who has worked at LC for 3 years! Mr Harvey discusses with them about their time and their role as a learning support assistant in the Prep School!
But who will Mx Roberts nominate to appear next on LC Radio?
Tune in to find out!
In this week's episode of LC Radio, Mr Brimage interviews Mr Harvey and in a bizarre twist Mr Harvey interviews Mr Brimage - our new Primary Sports' Coach and long time friend!
Interview 1: Elliot Brimage interviews Lewis Harvey, an LSA in the Primary Phase as well as being the Assistant College Organist and being the Host of LC Radio, Lewis also attended Liverpool College as a pupil himself. Listen to the man with many roles and how he finds to balance them amongst his main busy duties and priorities down in the Prep School.
Interview 2: Lewis Harvey chats with Elliot Brimage, our new Primary Sports' Coach who teaches P.E. lessons and Games lessons across the Primary Phase from Reception to Chapter 6, while also taking certain children out to Fixtures. Prior to his new role as Primary Sports' Coach, Elliot trained to be a teacher under the Schools' Direct Programme and now we listen as he gets the opportunity to reflect on his LC journey!
Welcome to LC Radio!
LC Radio is a podcast series where I, Mr Harvey, your host, an LSA in the Primary Phase get to have interesting discussions with former and current members of staff, students and parents of the Liverpool College community. We get to listen to the stories that all our guests share and tell about their journey and their time at LC.
This is LC Radio!
Primary I.T. Lead and Chapter 4 Form Tutor: Dave Atkinson speaks with Lewis Harvey about his childhood, his own education and his role as form teacher & being the Primary I.T. Lead!
Formerly the Vice Principal (Education) of Liverpool College, Alison Haynes talks with Lewis Harvey about the transfer to becoming the 18th Principal of Liverpool College.
Elliot Atkins: kind, thoughtful, intelligent, warm, prepared, inspiring, patient, and committed. An exceptional educator.
Here the man speaks with Lewis Harvey and you get to listen!
Brian, formerly head of expressive arts at LC, meets Lewis Harvey for a conversation about art, school, his career and his current interests. This is a chance to peak into the mind of one of the College's great characters. Utterly unique.
Roger Peach is an OL who continues to support the College as a volunteer, website editor, archivist and philanthropist.
LC Press' Lewis Harvey interviews his dad, Tim Harvey, music educator, music innovator, jazz performer, organist, former head of music at Giggleswick School, Liverpool College and Kings School Chester and all around great guy.
Mr Stamper is a pre School legend who plays guitar, all sorts of sports, and makes sure that Liverpool College continues to educate the whole person, not just the intellect, through a magnificent LC+ programme.
Sarah Doran is a Liverpool College legend. A teacher in the prep School for more than 20 years, she is also the innovative and passionate director of the Wilton Scholars, a programme for pupils across the College funded by the Foundation which seeks to inspire and develop academic and professional excellence.
As Hans Broekman prepares to leave Liverpool College after 16 years as principal, Lewis Harvey asks some questions about his time at the school. This is the first episode of the second seasons of Imagination in Education.
In this episode, Zia Chaudry, MBE, DL, talks about his life as a British Muslim and discusses common misconceptions of Islam. In dialogue with Sixth Formers at the College, he educates and encourages for respect, study and understanding and a rejection of Islamophobia in all its forms.
Dwayne Fields loves the outdoors and he loves adventure. And he excels at both. His family emigrated from Jamaica to Britain where Dwayne adjusted to a new culture, including the experience of exclusion and racism, and a new experience of the outdoors. He is an inspiration to many young people to aspire to be their best no matter what their background or circumstances, to stand up for justice and dignity for all people and to enjoy the challenges and rewards of outdoor pursuits. His inspirational life story thrills the pupils who helped make this podcast.
Kate Scott, Inclusion Mentor at Liverpool College gives tips to parents and pupils on how to keep well during lockdown. She shares her experiences of supporting people unique reactions and attitudes to the reality of "Covid school" and how we can support and accompany each other at this time.
Poet and teacher Henry Marsh reflects on the nature of creativity and the way schools both encourage and discourage creativity. He reads his award winning poetry and explains the impulse that made him write poetry.
We discuss what school is like for someone who is a born entrepreneur. Martin Bramley describes his journey from school to success as an entrepreneur. He provides insight and wisdom about the character traits he developed, at school and in life, and the key traits every entrepreneur must develop to be succesfull.
Anna Rothery is currently Lord Mayor of Liverpool. In this episode, she tells us about her own education and about the passion for learning that kept her going. Ms Rothery is the first black Lord Mayor of Liverpool. She describes her own experience of growing up black in Liverpool including inspirational intervention from teachers concomitant with harrowing racism, and displays her passion for public service and bringing people together in pursuit of equality for all.
Gill Ridley faced a unique challenge when the lockdown was announced. With three young children at home, she had to simultaneously teach them and her 29 6-year old charges in Year 1.
Gill describes how she went about doing this, what she and the parents and pupils learned, and how we can make our homes the best possible schools.
Professor Atkinson, Professor of Computing and Dean of the school of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computing at the University of Liverpool, describes how her own educational journey led her to become a researcher in computing and artificial intelligence.She discusses the key skills schools should teach their pupils in order to participate actively in a world where computers and artificial intelligence play a big role. She also discusses the possible impact of AI on the world of employment.
Nick Crofts, Director of Aspire Liverpool, describes his own education at a large Liverpool secondary and reveals to us how difficult it is for a child in Liverpool to get to Oxbridge. He reveals the obstacles which keep young people from applying and how Aspire Liverpool helps Liverpool students get a place at a top university
Kim Johnson, MP for Liverpool Riverside, describes what it was like for her at school. She comments on her experience growing up as a black girl, her ambition, education and her journey to Westminster. On the way, she makes clear her vision for her work as an MP and for Liverpool.
Lord Adonis, academic, teacher, journalist, policy maker, former schools minister, former transport minister, fervent European and high-speed rail advocate and author of a new biography of Ernest Bevin, joins the podcast for a conversation about his own experience of school, his choice of history as a subject, his passion for improving schools as instruments of justice and transformation and shares experiences in the corridors of power at the center of government.
Peter Francis joins the podcast to tell us about his own education, his work as warden and director of the Gladstone Library. He addresses head on the controversies currently swerving around the legacy of this Victorian giant of British politics.