Student radio with a community pulse.
MAKING MEDIA works like a guided school radio room: students ask direct questions and guests turn school experience into practical insight. The result is earnest, accessible audio about how young people understand their school, their choices, and their community.
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MAKING MEDIA is a student-interview podcast shaped by school radio energy. The format is direct, friendly, and easy to follow. A rotating group of student hosts welcomes a guest, sets up the topic, and asks the kind of questions a younger student might actually have. The recent episodes are rooted in Australian school life, with conversations from Iona College in Geelong and St. Columba's College in Melbourne. Wellbeing is one of the strongest threads. Mr. Millard explains the Push Up Challenge as a way to start mental health conversations, not just a fitness event. Mary Holmes describes student services, counselling support, confidentiality, sleep, technology breaks, eating well, and the wider picture of student wellbeing. School pathways also get careful attention. Anthea Sholl and Kirby Reynolds talk through VCE, VCE vocational major, electives, ATAR pathways, applied learning, trades, work, and traineeships. Leadership episodes focus on culture-building in a new school, from house mascots and sport participation to Pulse check-ins and shared identity. Damian McHugh speaks about becoming Iona's Foundation Principal, building a Catholic school culture, and acknowledging First Nations people and Wadawurrung custodianship. The arts episodes bring a different kind of energy. Miss Kay and Eliza make performing arts feel like both a creative outlet and a serious training ground for confidence, teamwork, and project skills. Columba Live broadens the feed with science, teaching, cooking, social media, bullying, burnout, and public attention. Chloe Peek's interview is especially candid about online trolling, privacy, and using attention to support Dolly's Dream. The show is not slick media commentary, despite the title. It is closer to a living record of students learning how to interview adults, name hard topics plainly, and connect school activities to bigger questions of care, identity, and future direction.
Made for: MAKING MEDIA is for listeners who enjoy student-led conversations about school life, wellbeing, leadership, pathways, and school community culture. It especially suits families, educators, and students who want accessible interviews rather than polished studio commentary.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the student question style: plain, earnest, sometimes repetitive, but consistently useful. The show turns school-specific guests and events into broader conversations about support, belonging, identity, and future choices.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Student-led interviews make leadership, career choices and project coordination legible through concrete conversations about school and working life.
MAKING MEDIA builds episodes around live, question-led conversations from Iona College and other community settings. Student presenters move quickly from broad subjects to practical decisions: school leaders discuss participation and culture, a teacher explains VCE subject…
A school radio mic makes house mascot choices feel like your business, even after graduation.
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A school radio conversation shows how push-ups can open a wider mental-health conversation.
Wellbeing sits at the centre of this Iona Live interview, as Mr. Millard, head of the Push Up Challenge, talks about exercise as a way to make mental health easier to discuss.
Drama is presented as training in expression, teamwork, and the practical habits behind school performance.
An Iona Live conversation from Geelong presents performing arts as something larger than a stage hobby. Miss Kay, a drama teacher and producer, and Eliza, a student and cast member, frame drama as a school subject that supports expression, wellbeing, morale, and a welcome break…
Student leaders steer a brisk live conversation about mascots, wellbeing, and school identity.
Iona Live frames a school radio hour around student leadership at Iona College in Geelong, moving neatly from house mascots to wellbeing, identity, and sport.
A live conversation about burnout, public scrutiny, and turning a wedding dress into a fundraiser.
Chloe Peek's live chat with Cleo tracks the strain of building a social media presence while holding down a full-time job in the energy industry.
A school arts conversation that makes a clear case for drama as practical training.
The segment treats performing arts as a real part of school life, not a side activity. Miss Kay frames creative expression as something that can support wellbeing, culture, morale, and chances beyond the usual school routine, while Eliza brings the student view with a clear…
A clear, practical primer on VCE choices, careers counselling, and keeping future pathways open.
VCE subject selection is framed here as more than a timetable exercise. In this Iona Live interview, Miss Scholl explains how the Victorian Certificate of Education generally runs across Years 11 and 12, why choices can shape later options, and where the VCE Vocational Major…
School leadership notes and a firm case for public schools
Clear thinking about education’s next turn.
Steady counsel for school leaders.
This episode of Iona Live features an interview with VCE student Kirby Reynolds and teacher Miss Scholl from Iona College in Geelong, Australia.
This episode features an interview with Dane Calleja, principal of Ave Maria College in Melbourne, discussing his journey into educational leadership, his passion for teaching, and the influences that shaped his career.
This episode features an interview with Jessica Mansur, Head of Innovation at Mallesons, discussing her 20-year corporate career journey from university internships to leadership roles at Deloitte and beyond.
This episode of Iona Live features an interview with drama teacher Miss Kay and student Eliza O'Brien, discussing the importance of performing arts at Iona College in Geelong.
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This episode features an interview with a teacher and student discussing the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) program, including its structure, goals, and different pathways.
This episode features an interview with Damian McHugh, principal of Iona College, discussing his journey from leading other Catholic schools to founding and establishing Iona from the ground up.
This episode features an interview with Mary Holmes, the social worker at Iona College, discussing the student support services available, including counselling, community groups, and referral systems.
Iona Live opens with house identity.
Cleo kicks off Colombo Live live from High Point Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Australia, with April, Nora, Olivia, and Amelia alongside her.
This episode features an interview with Dr.