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In this latest episode of the ‘…In Conversation With’ series on The Millfield Way Podcast, meet Millfield’s seasoned Director of Swimming, former Millfield student and Olympian, Euan Dale. 

After joining Millfield from a small rural town in Scotland at 11 years old in 1997 with dyslexia, Euan thrived at Millfield and went on to study Accounting and Finance at Loughborough University, while also swimming full time. Euan is one of Millfield’s Olympians, after competing at the 2008 Olympic Games. He joined Millfield as an Assistant Coach in 2010, where he now gives those same opportunities to current swimmers at Millfield as Director of Swimming.

The Millfield Swimming programme is designed for students from every year level of the school, and is recognised as one of the top clubs in Great Britain. The programme has six full time coaches and is equipped with the most impressive training facilities of any school in the country, with a 50m Olympic pool built to FINA/AASA standards.

Millfield participates in a host of local, regional and national swimming competitions. We continually produce international, national and regional champions year on year. Along the way, swimmers learn lifelong skills such as effective time management, dedication and goal setting – all of which transfer to successful adult life.

Millfield has produced 24 Olympians in its short history and has had a swimmer at every Olympic Games since 1968 including champions like Duncan Goodhew, Mark Foster and most recently, James Guy.

Learn more about Swimming at Millfield: http://bit.ly/2VTcvSN

In this episode, we chat to Millfield Prep Director of Boarding Carl Bingham, houseparent Menna Close and boarding pupils Eva, Alannam and Ale, who talk all about life as a boarder at Millfield Prep School and answer some frequently asked questions.

This latest episode of The Millfield Way podcast features three Sixth Form students, Jami, Waris and Tom, who are all international students who board at Millfield. They discuss their academic and social lives at school, including how their international upbringings help them to make friends and their interests in learning more about the local Somerset community. 

In this fourth episode of The Millfield Way, Year 9 students Grace and Frankie ask Sixth Former Ellie about insights into boarding, academics, balancing time, opportunities, mixing with day and boarding students and friendships at Millfield. 

Gathering in our Year 9 Girls Boarding House, Acacia, the girls discuss life at Millfield, including what they've been up to so far and what they are most looking forward to. Ellie explains the boarding programme at Millfield, how she balances her sport and academics, and what she loves about studying BTEC Art and Design. 

In this third episode of The Millfield Way Podcast, listen in on a conversation with Dr Ceri Fiddes, Assistant Head (Academic), and Millfield's new Deputy Head (Academic), Alexandra Haydon. 

Alexandra joins Millfield from St Mary’s Calne, Wiltshire, where she was a Senior Teacher and Head of Science, with responsibility for part of the teaching and learning portfolio, as well as leading on the school's co-curricular programme, partnerships with local schools and STEM & Innovation. In 2017, Alexandra led St Mary's to be the first independent school to gain the Platinum Science Mark. With an MSc in Learning and Teaching from University of Oxford, she has published research on promoting students' questions in class and is currently studying for a part-time doctorate in Education at University of Bath.

In this episode, Dr Fiddes and Mrs Haydon explore the academic programme at Millfield and discuss what drives them in education. They reveal plans for a new reporting process, the introduction of Breakfast Clubs and an innovative ban on prep during half-terms for pupils in Years 9 and 10. 

Alreet! A bit of a hard-hitting episode from the outset this week.

Craig Hilton, the Manager of the Salvation Army's Swan Lodge Lifehouse in Sunderland, and Deb Fozzard, Director of the Sunderland Connect Network, joined us in the studio to talk addiction and homelessness in Sunderland.

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Speak Up Sunderland is a weekly podcast, proudly made in Sunderland and about Sunderland!

Our hosts are Betty Ball and Stevie B, with music by Timecrawler 82, and our producer is Jay Sykes.

Follow our journey on Twitter - @SpeakUpSun, on Instagram - @SpeakUpSunderland, or join us on Facebook!

Or, come meet us in person! We're live at the Peacock for our debut public recording, on Wednesday 16th January 2019, 7pm - 10pm. Have a drink, a natter, meet other listeners, and share your stories about Sunderland.

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If you, or a loved one, are in need of any of the public resources & support services discussed in this episode, please follow the links below;

Swan Lodge Lifehouse (Salvation Army)

Wear Recovery

Sunderland City Council

Oasis Community Housing

Sunderland Foodbank

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland!

Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland!

Today, our hosts meet Robyn & Eddie from the band Picnic - based in Sunderland, they're a seven piece jazz / alternative / pop ensemble, and their music is going from strength to strength.

Join us as we chat origins, passions, industry realities, the Sunderland vs. Newcastle scene, and what's ahead for these rising stars on Sunderland's music scene.

Follow our journey on Twitter - @SpeakUpSun.

Featuring music by Timecrawler 82.

Produced by Jay Sykes.

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland!

Join Betty Ball & Jay...  I mean Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland!

Join us, and let us "envelop" you in the "warm, moist" sounds of this episode as our friends pick 5 locations each in Sunderland, to have their photos taken.

This is the first of a two-part episode; next week we'll be meeting with Sunderland-based photographer Ryan Booth, and racing around the city with Ryan's lens.

Follow our journey on Twitter - @SpeakUpSun.

Featuring music by Timecrawler 82.

Produced by Jay Sykes.

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland!

Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland!

A few weeks back, writer Glenda Young got in touch with us over Twitter.  She's recently signed a three-book deal with Headline Publishing, and is due to release her debut fiction novel "Belle of the Back Streets' in November.

The books are based in Ryhope, where she was born, so Glenda offered to take us on a tour of her village.  How could we not jump at the chance?

Find out about the vicar who promoted physical violence, what happened to Ryhope's long-lost train stations, and what makes Ryhope such an interesting place to set a series of 3 novels.

Follow our journey on Twitter - @SpeakUpSun.

Featuring music by Timecrawler 82.

Produced by Jay Sykes.

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland!

Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland!

Last week, we visited the opening of the Northern Spire bridge; connecting the two areas of Pallion & Castletown together across the river Wear.

After just over three years of construction over the past three years, the bridge was opened to pedestrians on Tuesday August 28th.  We met with visitors to the bridge, and two counsellors behind the scenes:

• Cllr. Graeme Miller, Leader of the Sunderland Council
• Chief Operating Officer for Economy and Place Les Clark

Follow our journey on Twitter - @SpeakUpSun.

Featuring music by Timecrawler 82.

Edited by Jay Sykes.  A Jammy Audio production.