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Sonic Postcards is a unique and innovative project that enables pupils from across the UK to explore and compare their local sound environments through the exchange of sound postcards with other schools via the internet. The project focuses on the impact of sound on our lives, and the possibilities for creativity through the manipulation of sounds with technology. As with an ordinary postcard it offers the opportunity for people to exchange information about their local environments providing windows into a variety of places, lives and cultures from urban to rural.
The project is aimed at young people in Primary, Secondary and Special Schools aged between 9 and 14 years, from a number of regions around the UK including Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Over the course of three years we hope that approximately 3000 students, 96 schools and 336 teachers will take part in the Sonic Postcards project. The project is free to participating schools.
Sonic Postcards links a number of curriculum studies at Key Stages 2 and 3, including music, geography and ICT, as well as English, citizenship, history, science and art, and is pertinent to key government initiatives for e-learning and for the environment.
Phil Hallett
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