Podcasting in the Classroom

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Podcasting Made Simple, Powerful, and Inspiring for Every Student

When podcasting is integrated into the classroom, learning transforms. Lessons become more dynamic, more creative, and more connected to the real world students experience every day. Podcasting develops literacy through purposeful communication, builds confidence by giving every learner a platform, and strengthens collaboration through teamwork and shared ownership of ideas. Crucially, it equips young people with the digital fluency and media skills that prepare them for higher education, future careers, and life beyond the classroom.

At One Stop Podcasts, we partner with schools to unlock this powerful potential. Through immersive student workshops that spark imagination, professional CPD programmes that empower teachers, and whole-school podcast projects that elevate student voice, we ensure podcasting becomes a lasting part of your learning culture. Combined with bespoke studio design and equipment support, we deliver everything your school needs to embed podcasting with confidence, clarity, and measurable impact.

Why Schools Are Turning to Podcasting

Podcasting isn’t a passing trend or novelty. It’s here to stay as a powerful educational strategy and tool that drives real, measurable outcomes. It equips students with transferable skills in communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and digital literacy, while giving teachers a dynamic tool to enhance curriculum delivery, boost engagement, and evidence progress in meaningful ways.

  • Students find their voice and grow in confidence.
  • Literacy, oracy, and digital skills improve across subjects.
  • Teamwork and problem-solving become everyday practice.
  • Schools demonstrate innovation, careers alignment, and community engagement.

Podcasting also connects directly to Ofsted frameworks and Gatsby Benchmarks, helping schools evidence both quality of education and future careers preparation.

Choose the Right Approach for Your School

No two schools are the same. Each has its own culture, curriculum priorities, and vision for student development. That’s why our Podcasting in the Classroom programme offers four carefully designed pathways, giving you the flexibility to choose what works best for your staff, your learners, and your community.

Student Workshops & Taster Sessions

Ideal for introducing podcasting in an accessible, engaging way. These sessions show students how to plan, record, and share their first podcast. Whether it’s a short taster or a structured half-day/full-day workshop, learners leave with new skills, greater confidence, and a tangible piece of work they can be proud of.

Empower your teachers with the confidence and skills to embed podcasting across subjects. Our CPD goes beyond technical know-how, focusing on classroom application, literacy development, creativity, and cross-curricular integration. Staff leave with practical strategies they can use immediately.

Take podcasting to the next level with a school-wide series. From planning and branding through to recording and publishing, we guide your staff and students step-by-step. These projects showcase student voice to parents, governors, and the wider community building pride, visibility, and a culture of creativity.

For schools ready to invest in a long-term resource, we provide bespoke studio design, equipment installation, and training. Working closely with your IT team, we ensure your studio integrates seamlessly with existing technology. The result: a dedicated space that inspires students and gives them the tools to produce professional-quality audio.

At One Stop Podcasts, we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all. Whether you’re exploring podcasting for the first time, want to embed it across the curriculum, or are ready to build a lasting creative hub within your school, we’ll help you choose the pathway that delivers maximum value and long-term impact.

Student Workshops

Hands-on learning experiences where students become podcasters for the day.

  • Ideal for primary, secondary, and sixth form.
  • Students plan, record, edit, and share their own podcasts.
  • Builds oracy, literacy, teamwork, and confidence.
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Teacher CPD and Train-the-Trainer

Empower staff to deliver podcasting confidently across the curriculum.

  • Perfect for INSET days, CPD sessions, and teacher development programmes.
  • Teachers learn equipment, editing, and pedagogical strategies.
  • Builds sustainability — staff can run podcast projects independently.
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School-Wide Podcast Projects

Take podcasting beyond the classroom with your own school podcast series.

  • Tailored support from concept to launch.
  • Engage students, parents, governors, and community with regular episodes.
  • Establishes your school as forward-thinking and innovative.
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Studio Design, Equipment & Support

Professional podcast studio spaces and learning environments designed and installed for your school.

  • From single microphones and compact kits to podcast production suites and full broadcast-standard studios.
  • Fully integrated with your school’s IT systems.
  • Includes staff & student training, resources, and ongoing support.
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Proven to Meet Educational Priorities

Ofsted – Quality of Education

Embeds literacy, creativity, and digital skills in a structured, measurable way.

  • Podcasting is not an add-on; it directly supports the delivery of a broad and ambitious curriculum. Students practise essential literacy skills such as planning, drafting, scripting, and editing spoken and written content.

  • Creativity is fostered through branding, storytelling, and audio design, encouraging students to think critically about audience and purpose.

  • Digital skills are embedded at every stage, from recording and editing to publishing and distributing audio content. This aligns with Ofsted’s emphasis on preparing young people with future-ready technical competencies.

  • Clear evidence can be produced through podcast outputs, scripts, and reflective exercises to demonstrate progression and achievement.

Develops student voice, confidence, and resilience beyond the classroom.

  • By recording and publishing their own work, students gain confidence in speaking clearly, presenting ideas, and expressing opinions in a professional format.

  • Collaborative podcasting tasks build resilience as learners navigate deadlines, problem-solve technical issues, and work as a team to create high-quality outcomes.

  • Podcasting nurtures self-expression, supporting mental health and wellbeing by giving students an authentic platform to be heard.

  • This contributes to Ofsted’s personal development judgement by strengthening communication, teamwork, and self-belief in real-world contexts.

Gives learners meaningful exposure to modern media and industry practices.

  • Students gain first-hand experience of a cultural form they regularly consume—podcasts—by learning how to create them professionally.

  • They are introduced to industry-standard tools and workflows, demystifying pathways into the creative sector.

  • The process equips learners with transferable knowledge about media ethics, representation, and the social responsibility of publishing content.

  • This widens horizons, particularly for students who may not otherwise have access to cultural experiences connected to digital and creative industries.

Demonstrates clear pathways into media, journalism, marketing, and broadcasting.

  • Podcasting is an active and growing sector, with career opportunities across broadcasting, journalism, PR, media production, project management, marketing, branding, technology and creative industries. 

  • Our workshops highlight these routes explicitly, helping students understand the relevance of skills they are developing to real-world roles.

  • We provide examples of employers, industry trends, and success stories, linking student activity directly to future opportunities.

  • This contributes to schools’ compliance with the Gatsby Benchmarks, supporting statutory careers guidance duties at Key Stages 4 and 5.

Connects learning across English, Media, Humanities, Science, Computing, PSHE, Music and the arts.

  • English: Enhances literacy through planning, structuring, scripting, and presenting podcasts. Students practise persuasive language, storytelling, and oracy.

  • Media Studies: Provides hands-on experience in content creation, audience targeting, and narrative techniques, linking directly to assessment objectives.

  • Computing: Develops technical competence with IT, digital audio tools, file management, and online publishing.

  • PSHE/Citizenship: Encourages discussion of contemporary issues, social responsibility, and student voice in a safe and structured framework.

  • Music/Performing Arts: Introduces sound design, recording techniques, and the creative use of music to enhance audio projects.

This cross-curricular reach makes podcasting a versatile tool for enhancing teaching and learning across multiple subjects.

Why Schools Partner With One Stop Podcasts

  • Deep expertise in both education and professional podcasting
  • Tailored programmes for KS2 through KS5
  • Hands-on approach where students and staff actively engage, collaborate and create
  • Clear impact on Ofsted and Gatsby priorities
  • End-to-end support from workshops and training, to equipment and studios

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