WHIZZkids from Dorchester hit the airways after winning a competition to promote online safety for youngsters.

The Prince of Wales school pupils spent a day with Clyde Broadcast planning, producing and recording a radio show.

The Year 2 children won the prize after creating a video with a ‘safe surfing’ theme in the South West Grid for Learning Trust (SWGfL) contest.

Teacher Gary Spracklen, who is also school ICT co-ordinator, said: “The children loved the radio experience day.

“It was a wonderful opportunity for the children to engage with the subject of e-safety through a new and exciting medium, radio.”

The SWGfL is a charity set up by 15 councils in the South West to provide schools with safe, secure and reliable broadband internet connectivity, resources, services, help, support and advice.

Staff from the Clyde Broadcast company visited the school where they worked with the children to create the radio show.

Nigel Vernon Dier ran the workshop on behalf of Clyde Broadcasting to create the radio show.

It was just one of the school’s prizes for winning the competition with their safe surfing video.

Pupils Beatha Dalgleish and Lauren Crane, both seven, came up with the internet surfer theme.

They enlisted the help of Year 4 pupils Lauren Welch and Emerald Rymer, both nine, to record their entry. They also won goods for the school.