Learning Local on KCLR

Learning Local S01E10: Online Safety, Help with CAO choices, Mindful learning, Backstage at a school play and Advice for 6th class pupils.

In the final episode of this series of Learning Local we celebrate Jessie Buckley’s big Oscar win by going backstage at St. Kieran’s College and Loreto Kilkenny’s recent joint production of Across the Barricades. We get details of a free, online cyber-safety & digital health talk. First years offer advice to 6th class students who may be starting to feel a little anxious about their transition to secondary school. We get tips that may help us to be more mindful as we learn and we hear about a website that provides help with CAO choices and picking subjects for Leaving Cert . With thanks, as always, to Kilkenny Carlow Education and Training Board.

Learning Local S01E09: Advice ahead of the Foreign Language Orals and Kilkenny Steiner School

On this week’s episode of Learning Local, teachers answer your questions ahead of the Leaving Cert foreign language orals, which are coming up at the end of March. We hear about Kilkenny Steiner School’s alternative and holistic approach to learning, arm you a few phrases that can be used as Seachtain na Gaeilge continues and we find out about upcoming Taster Days that are happening in Carlow College. With thanks to Kilkenny Carlow Education and Training Board.

Learning Local S01 E08: Irish Oral Advice, Third Level Options through Irish, Compulsory Irish for Leaving Cert and An Irish Oral at Junior Cycle?

The Irish language takes centre stage on this week's episode, as we celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge, on Learning Local. We get tips from a muinteoir Gaeilge, ahead of the upcoming Irish orals. We hear student voice on Irish being a compulsory subject for Leaving Cert, and we get feedback from students who have chosen to study their degrees through Irish. MEP Cynthia Ní Mhurchú talks us through career opportunites in the European Union for those with Gaeilge, we meet three TY students who are lobbying for the introduction of an Irish oral for Junior Cycle.

Learning Local S01 E07: Overcoming Literacy Challenges and STEM Racing Ireland Competitors

On tonight’s programme, we hear the story of Brian O’Donnell who, aged 45, reached out for support with reading and writing. He shares how life-changing taking that first step proved to be. We’re also joined by Deirdre Geoghegan Regional Literacy Coordinator with Kilkenny Carlow ETB who highlights the local supports available for adults who would like to strengthen their literacy, numeracy and digital skills. And we meet students from two local schools, who are taking part in the exciting STEM Racing Ireland competition, a competition which challenges students to form a Formula One team, design, build and race a fast and efficient F1 style miniature car that’s powered by compressed air. Anna Duggan and Dearbhla Convery from Loreto Kilkenny are on a team called Fusion Force and Dylan Kearney and Harry Jenkinson from Presentation De La Salle Bagenalstown are on Burnout Motorsports. They fill us in on the competition, their projects, their fundraising and the rest.  As always, Learning Local comes to us with the support of KCETB. You can get in touch with the show on una@kclr96fm.com

Learning Local S01E06: A Whole School Move: Presentation Kilkenny and A Tour of the Mayfair Library

On this week’s episode we're out and about with thanks, as always, to KCETB. First stop is Presentation Secondary School in Kilkenny who moved into a brand-new building in September last. Pupils and staff give us a sense of what’s involved in such a move, and share how they’ve settled in. Then we’re off to Mayfair Library to take a tour of their beautiful building and learn more about their many resources, and services, that support local learning.