Podcasting in the Classroom
Transform Engagement and Learning with Podcasting in the Classroom
One Stop Podcasts Podcasting in the Classroom programmes combine professional podcast production with education-led delivery to help schools use podcasting with clarity and purpose. Built around safeguarding, curriculum alignment, and real classroom experience, our work focuses on confident communication, student voice, and meaningful learning outcomes rather than one-off activities. Whether supporting teachers through CPD or delivering structured workshops with students, we make podcasting feel calm, accessible, and genuinely valuable within education.
What's Podcasting in the Classroom?
Podcasting in the Classroom is a structured learning programme, not a one-off workshop.
Students are guided through a clear and creative learning process that includes:
Research and idea development
Planning and scripting
Recording and editing audio
Reflection, evaluation, and teamwork
The emphasis is on learning outcomes, communication, and confidence, not simply producing content.
Educational Outcomes
Schools and Trusts use Podcasting in the Classroom to support:
Oracy and spoken language development
Literacy, planning, and critical thinking
Student confidence and self-expression
Collaboration and teamwork
Engagement and motivation
Cultural capital and enrichment
Careers awareness and digital skills
The programme aligns naturally with English, Humanities, Media, Music, PSHE, and Careers across KS2 to KS5 and FE.
Delivery Models
Delivery is flexible and shaped around your setting.
Options include:
Half-day introductory workshops
Full-day intensive sessions
Multi-week programmes delivered on site
CPD and Train-the-Trainer delivery for staff
We prioritise working with your existing equipment and adapt delivery to age, ability, and curriculum context.
Safeguarding and Professional Practice
All delivery is:
DBS-checked
Safeguarding-aware
GDPR-conscious
Age-appropriate and professionally structured
Clear expectations, boundaries, and communication are established before delivery begins.
Who is this Programme For?
Podcasting in the Classroom is suitable for:
Primary schools
Secondary schools
Colleges and FE providers
Multi-Academy Trusts and Trust-wide delivery
Programmes can be delivered at class, cohort, or Trust level and scaled strategically over time.
Next Step
A short, no-obligation conversation to explore outcomes, delivery options, and whether a pilot is the right next step.
Train-the-Trainer Podcasting in the Classroom CPD
Practical staff training for oracy, literacy, confidence and pupil voice
Podcasting can be a powerful classroom tool when it is used with clarity, structure and purpose.
Our Podcasting in the Classroom CPD sessions help teachers explore how podcasting can support speaking, listening, writing, collaboration, curriculum engagement and student voice, without needing a professional studio, expensive equipment or advanced technical knowledge.
This is practical, education-focused CPD designed to give staff the confidence, ideas and classroom-ready tools to use podcasting in a way that feels manageable, meaningful and genuinely useful for pupils.
Why podcasting?
Podcasting gives pupils a real reason to communicate.
It helps them plan, question, listen, speak, explain, reflect and respond with purpose. The value is not only in the final recording. Much of the learning happens through discussion, research, scripting, rehearsal, collaboration and reflection.
Used well, podcasting can support:
- Oracy and spoken communication
- Literacy and writing for audience
- Curriculum understanding
- Confidence and self-expression
- Collaboration and independent learning
- Pupil voice and reflection
Why CPD first?
Many schools are interested in podcasting but are not yet sure how to make it work in practice.
Our CPD sessions give staff simple structures, realistic examples and classroom-ready ideas they can adapt to their own subjects, year groups and pupils.
This is not a technical audio production course.
It is a practical teacher confidence session designed to make podcasting feel possible.
Why now?
The end of the academic year is the ideal time to explore, prepare and plan for September.
If your school is too busy to run a full pupil-facing podcasting project before summer, CPD offers a practical first step. It helps staff identify how podcasting could support existing priorities across oracy, literacy, enrichment, transition, curriculum engagement and pupil voice.
What the CPD covers
The session can include:
- How podcasting supports communication, confidence and learning
- Practical classroom podcast formats
- Curriculum and enrichment use cases
- Planning a podcast-based activity
- Supporting pupils with speaking, scripting and questioning
- Low-tech classroom recording approaches
- Managing pupil roles and group workflow
- Reflection, assessment and evidence of learning
- September implementation planning
CPD options
Twilight CPD Session
A focused 60–90 minute introduction to using podcasting as a classroom learning tool.
Half-Day CPD Workshop
A practical workshop helping staff explore, plan and design podcasting activities for their own classrooms.
Full-Day INSET / Development Day
A full training and planning day helping schools build podcasting into curriculum, enrichment, transition or pupil voice activity.
Why One Stop Podcasts?
One Stop Podcasts combines professional podcast production, creative audio expertise and real educational experience.
Founded by Craig Burgess, an experienced educator, lecturer and audio specialist, One Stop Podcasts helps schools use podcasting with clarity, structure and purpose.
We do not believe schools need to become production studios.
We believe podcasting works best when it helps pupils communicate more clearly, think more deeply and take pride in what they have to say.
Start September with clarity
Interested in podcasting, but too busy to run a pupil project before summer?
Start with staff CPD.
Use this term to prepare, build confidence and plan a realistic approach for September.