Welcome to Oak Mag Radio Network (OMRN), the collaborative radio station from Oakington Manor and St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Junior School.
St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Junior School is located in Willesden Green. Over the years we have been involved in many ICT based collaborative projects, locally, nationally and internationally. We have worked on many such projects, with one of our most successful being the work we have done together on this radio station, OMRN. We hope you enjoy listening and become a regular visitor.
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Spotlight Feature
The London 2012 is fast approaching and the OMRN team at Oakington were fortunate enough to have some top class Olympians visit their studio and to talk to them first hand about their sport as part of the Black History Month celebrations. The team first met Ade Orogbemi, the Team GB paralympic basketball champion who talked frankly about his disability and the challenges he had to face whilst growing up. His inspirational presentation and demonstration of his wheelchair basketball skills left both staff and pupils in awe of his amazing skills. Ade's visit was followed by a visit from Onochie 'Larry' Achike, World and Olympic triple jumper who also inspired pupils and staff by showing them what his personal best of 17.30m triple jump looked like using a very long tape measure. His message to the children was that becoming a world and Olympic class athlete, wasn’t just about jumping the longest distance or running the fastest time. It was about education, making sure that homework was completed, studying hard, listening to teachers and being disciplined. All the skills needed to become a world class athlete.
Forty children were privileged to be chosen to spend an hour in a coaching session, where Larry taught them some drills and techniques of triple jumping. He hopes to come back to the school after the London 2012 Olympics to show off any medals he may win. We will all be rooting for him on OMRN. Our last celebrity athlete to visit our studios was former junior 100m & 200m sprint champion, Lloyd Stapleton. Lloyd's career began in the early 1980s when he discovered his love for running and was soon spoted and trained to run for various clubs until his moment came for Junior World Championships (under 20's). He competed from 1984 – 1990 and held various championship titles, collecting over 20 medals and trophies during his career. Injury forced Lloyd to give up his athletic career before making it to his fist Olympic games. Today, Lloyd still runs on the track regularly but no longer competes however, particpates in a number of martial art forms. |
Editor's Pick
Simone Aspis is a disability rights activist and a self-employed consultant and trainer. She has lived in the London Borough Brent for 10 years and is well known in the local community.
Simone has stood as a candidate in three previous elections. In the Greater London Authority elections last May, she was the Green Party's constituency candidate for Brent and Harrow and gained 9% of the vote.
Simone has campaigned on inclusive education for disabled people. She is a member of the Green Party and has contributed to Green Party policy making in a number of areas. Last autumn Simone presented the Channel 4 program "Your Voice, Your Vote", which looked at how the voting system could be made more accessible to people with learning difficulties.
Simone recently visited our studio to talk to the team at OMRN about raising awareness for the work she does with her campaign group, 'The Alliance for Inclusive Education' and the work her colleague Vincent Cox does in Brent. Listen to this very interesting interview on Channel 1.
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