The MHS Podcast: Recent Episodes
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MHS podcast to support the Macksville NSW School community. Informative content for everyone, featuring interviews with members of the school community.
This podcast we speak with the careers team at MHS. These people are working hard behind the scens to help students map out a path after school and even while they are at school. Is it time to change careers for you?
We speak to some yr11 students about their experiences of the pandemic and the impact on school and life.
We speak again with students with great, innovative, ideas for new products. Where do these great ideas come from!
This is a new style of podcast for us, we speak with students 'in the wild'! We pull out the mics and have a chat to some of our yr10 ingenious students while on a field trip and we finish up with Micklo telling one of the local stories. This turns out to be an interesting insight into our current students and local history.
We speck with Ricky, parts of our school community working to encourage indigenous language take up in school around the region. After specking with Ricky for a bit you soon realize that there is so much you don't know about this community minded individual, come along for what has to be only part 1 of what may end up as a series in its own right!
This cast we speak with three students about a senior assessment task. Sounds pretty dull... hang on while we explore 3 minds full of great ideas. Those venture capital firms listen up to these great ideas!
The role of the school counselor is often a bit of an unknown. It turns out students have long understood the role and have been using the counselling services at a steady rate for a long time. So lets listen as we get a better understanding of the counselor does at school and what we can do to help when someone we know is finding it tough.
Looking back its been tumultuous 8 months. It really seems like the end of 2019 has been forgotten. This podcast we chat with members of our school who remember pretty clearly the end of last year. But there is a bit of depth to this trio that's unexpected.
This week we speak to 2 of our most interesting staff members. Massive back stories have made these staff popular with staff and students alike. The other side of a big back story is experience ... just how many languages is it that you can speak?
Schools in smaller communities are a mix for sure, but what happens when mum or dad or worse still both mum and dad work at school... can you ever escape the ever watchful gaze? We talk to some of our younger students about this conundrum.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
Macksville High School's very first podcast. Featuring a discussion about the impacts of events towards the end of 2019 and the end of term 1 2020. How a student of the school has found the transition from normal school to remote learning in the midst of the 2020 COVID-19 lock-down. What issues have there been and how have these been overcome.