Cardinal Griffin Radio: English Podcast

Hi all,I am very pleased to announce that, finally, Episode 4 of the English Podcast is now live.In this installment, Simon Rawlings (Year 11) reads and discusses his poem 'Expectations' and the revision guide is for Simon Armitage's poem 'Kid'.You know, it's great to see so much talent in Cardinal Griffin. Hearing Simon's amazingly good poem, as well as the 42 entries for the lyric writing competition, shows that there really is a lot of amazing talent in our school.Thanks to all those that entered the competition. The deadline for entries has now passed and the results will be published on this blog on Friday 6th March.Until next time, enjoy the podcast.Mr Webster

Hi all,I'm pleased to announce that Episode 3 of the English Podcast is now available either from this site (stream from the player at the bottom of this post or right-click and 'Save as' on the title of this post) or via iTunes.In this week's podcast:Calling all poets and lyric writers! Enter the amazing lyric/poetry writing competition and win a £10 iTunes voucher and get the chance to record your lyrics as a vocal to my song! The competition is open to all pupils in the school and the closing date is Friday 27th February. Listen to the podcast for more details.Revision guide to Simon Armitage's 'My father thought it bloody queer...' for the GCSE English Literature exam in May.To hear the song you'll be writing lyrics for, you can click here to go to my MySpace page.Get your pens out and get writing poetry people!Mr Webster

Hi all,I'm very pleased to announce that Episode Two of the English Podcast is now available. To access it, you can either:Stream directly from here by clicking the 'Play' button at the bottom of this postDownload by right-clicking on this blog's title and selecting 'Save as'Download via iTunes (search for 'griffin radio')Subscribe via iTunes or by clicking the 'Subscribe' button on the right-hand side of the screenIn this week's episode, you will find a feature about Gothic fiction (very useful for Year 7 and my Year 10 group but very interesting to anybody) and a revision guide for Simon Armitage's poem 'November' for Year 11 GCSE English Literature.Click below to play the podcast.Enjoy,Mr Webster

Hey folks!I am very pleased to announce that the very first episode of the English Podcast is live!This first episode serves as a welcome to the podcast but also contains a revision guide to Simon Armitage's 'Mother Any Distance...', which is one of the key poems from the AQA Anthology for English Literature (i.e. it's a poem that you may be asked to discuss on the Literature exam paper at the end of May). I hope you find it useful - it's a walkthrough of the poem together with a discussion of what it all means, plus there are some questions for you to think about as well.For those of you that are interested, the music is provided by Muse and M83 and the Mr. Men. This week's show is brought to you by the letter 'M'!In the next episode, which should be much longer, there will be a slot where I answer your questions about anything to do with English, so I need your questions. You can either send them by e-mail, add them as a comment to the blog or drop them in to my room. There will also be a discussion of seve