What is BBC News School Report?
Students presenting and recording the news. BBC News School Report gives 12 and 13-year-olds around the UK the chance to make their own news at school and to broadcast it via the internet. Using lesson plans and materials from the BBC News School Report website, and with support from BBC staff, teachers help students develop their journalistic skills and become School Reporters. Then on 22 March 2007, 100 schools around the country will take part in BBC School Report News Day – creating news reports and publishing or broadcasting them on their school website. Eventually every secondary school in the country might want to take part but 2006/2007 is a pilot year. Working to a deadline, students taking part in News Day will use reports they have prepared in advance and reports produced on the day – just like BBC journalists. They can cover local news stories from their schools and communities as well as national and international stories. Schools can choose to make news on TV, radio or on
