The radio workshop of the Rosa Parks college in Lézignan-Corbières was this Thursday, April 2, 2026 in Carcassonne to record a broadcast in the premises of the Francas association.
“Value the civic attitude, develop critical thinking and promote media education.” A whole program that can’t do any harm in these times. It was in the Francas premises, at 10 rue de la République, the aptly named, that around twenty students from the Rosa-Parks college in Lézignan-Corbières engaged in this invigorating practice this Thursday, April 2.
Microphone in front of their mouth, headphones on their ears and relevant questions were on the program. For two years, middle school students from the Lézignan establishment have participated in radio workshops, once a week in the CDI studio, accompanied by a host from the Francas association. Students of 3eSegpa and Ulis, but also the Medical-Educational Institute of Pépieux, are part of this great civic and inclusive adventure.
This Thursday, April 2, they recorded a column on journalism and the right to information, after having created a sidewalk microphone in downtown Carcassonne on the theme “How do people get information today?”. They were then able to speak with a journalist from the local print media and went to meet journalists from France 3.
All this will feed into their series of programs and podcasts published on the educational radio Magma des Francas and the college’s web radio, Parks Radio. You can find interviews, round tables, chronicles, descriptions of works, music and sounds, analyses. Around current events, a discussion or a question, the group explores a theme over several weeks in order to understand how the world works and to share their expressions. Games to develop oral expression, breathing, volume of voice such as articulation or rhythm, but also support and collective research work, reading and writing of broadcasts, are the daily life of these radio workshops.
An approach which falls within the framework of the interministerial Cité éducative label, recalled the college’s librarian professor, Sophie Landais-Marcoul. “It restores confidence through the production of writing and oral interventions”she rejoiced this Thursday. To supervise these apprentice reporters, she was accompanied by Johana Hug, teacher from Ulis, Bernard Thomas and Raphaël Bonval, teacher and specialist educator at the IME in Pépieux, as well as Céline Pech, AESH.
