School Recruitment

The School’s Out programmes, broadcast between 1600 and 1800, Monday to Friday, afford S4 to S6 students a unique opportunity on British Independent Local Commercial Radio to present their own radio programmes.

The programmes are designed specifically for a teenage audience, whilst giving presenters the opportunity for personal development and to acquire media skills. The service is looked upon favourably by prospective employers and by University selection panels, and can be regarded as community service for the three levels of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.

Certain members have proceeded to follow successful careers in broadcasting. School students are currently being recruited for vacancies that will occur when their sixth year colleagues will leave school in the summer of 2012. Broadcasts can be conducted live from the stations based at Arbroath, Montrose, and Stracathro.

Training in music radio production consists of seven 2 hourly sessions, which include control desk operation, microphone technique, an appreciation of voice production, and programming techniques. Thereafter there are practice sessions during which the first programme is composed, which will be pre-recorded. The presenters proceed to programming which can be live or pre-recorded, depending on availability, in order to gain experience prior to transferring to present a School’s Out programme whenever the opportunity arises.

The commitment throughout is to present a programme once a week and schools are agreeable to allowing students to leave classes slightly early in order to conduct programming.

Contact should be made with Malcolm J B Finlayson, Managing Director, Radio North Angus Ltd, Rosemount Road, Arbroath, Angus DD11 2AT, e-mail: info@radionorthangus.co.uk.