Welcome

Burnage High School’s Media Arts college status is rapidly opening many exciting new doors for its Students. One of these is the setting up of our own Community Radio Station. Broadcasting regulations allow Schools and Community groups to apply for what amounts to legal airwave time from one day to one month (for as many as three times a year).

Burnage Media Arts College launched BMC Radio 106.1 on Monday 14th January, 2008. Our first broadcast period lasted until Monday 28th January. The whole enterprise was a great success. BMC Radio is produced to entertain, to educate and to communicate with the Burnage, Levenshulme and Longsight communities.

December 2008 saw Burnage Media Arts College’s second radio broadcast.  Our License ran from the 10th to 18th December and in that time we put 47 students on air, twenty of whom took part in our first BMC broadcast in 2007. The remainder were trained over a two Week period and delivered their first shows. One of the highlights was a show presented by 8S - a group of pupils who need additional support. They took part in our training programme, learning valuable skills in short script writing and presentation, and pre-recording a show which was broadcast on the last day of our license. You can listen to this on our ‘downloads’ page. In fact, a wide range of shows is available for your listening pleasure, addressing teenage spending power, the value of end results, an interview with Ben Zoezee (Head Boy), a feature on World Aids Day, Film reviews and lots more.

The exciting News for 2009 is that BMC Radio will be using our facilities to train more students and enable them to pre-record shows and upload them - effectively transforming this website into an Internet Radio Station, allowing more Students to become involved in this innovative project.

Broadcasting means much more than glamorous DJ's, monotonous playlists or cliquey closed-shop employment policies. Broadcasting is something we all do all the time. Through training in multi-media platforms, EBC allows young people to develop the way they express themselves, empowering them with self assurance and confidence whilst promoting skills increasingly important to our modern lifestyle. Our training provides media and ICT access and training, and will be a exciting source of social innovation and practical, 'joined up' outcomes combining social enterprise, creative content production and skills for the digital economy.

BMC Radio projects are designed to give students the opportunity to be creative and express their views and opinions on the kind of issues that really matter to them: music, relationships, schools, sports, health and lifestyle, environment, and politics; and will give access to new voices in the school and community, encouraging diversity, creativity and participation.

This Radio station helps enhance School cohesion, giving students a sense of ownership of their School lives and providing a platform for discussion of issues both in and outside School; and helping to create essential links between the School and the Community.  The project can make a significant contribution to a Citizenship program for young people, who have the opportunity to develop understanding of the National Curriculum Program of Study, personalized learning and dynamic ways to present themselves and their work.

For more information, requests, dedications (and of course to register your support) please contact us through the website.