Today thousands of secondary school children across the country will become news reporters for the day for BBC School Report.
Here at Chailey we have a team of 14 Year 7 students and 3 Year 10 Media students working on the local and national news stories and throughout the day pictures will appear on our Blog showing their progress.
9.00 Mr Smith, Mr Lowe and Mrs Duck have a briefing with the students and discuss the structure of the day and the main stories to be filmed and reported on. A selection of today's papers are looked at to see what's in the news today.
10.00 Our reporters interview Jess Lloyd and Lindsay Willis from Universal Dance who are giving a demonstration and workshop on Street Dance for Year 7. The first photo shows some Year 7 students trying out the steps.
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| 11.00 Rosanna and Lily busy researching today's news |
11.45 The team assemble for a photo shoot. Filming and editing going well and we are mid-way to the deadline.
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12.45 Not much time left and some last-minute research taking place by our Year 7 reporters
Here is a report on the day by some of our Year 7 reporters
Thursday.19th March.
Not your normal day. Selected
Year 7 students had the opportunity to dip into the world of journalism. We
started off by browsing through today’s papers searching for catchy and interesting
headlines. In pairs or small groups we each chose a topic which we would delve
into throughout the day. We covered local and school news, interviewing members
of school or leaders of activities.
Our next job was to research and create reports and scripts
about our chosen subjects. We used the day's newspapers and online research for
this task. Each small group wrote and planned interviews with visitors, staff
and students.
Our first group covered Investors in Careers. Aislinn Goss and
Corin Beckwith interviewed Sue Whitaker about this topic. This was done in
incredible time as it was filmed 30 minutes after the reporting
team came together.
At 10.00 Universal Dance came in and led a hip-hop street
dance taster session for 25 Year 7 students, and stayed to be interviewed by
Rosanna Greenwood, George Goodyer and Lily Kianfar.
Following that Amelie Woodbridge-Cox and Ellen Pannett looked at
the 'Show Me' Aesthetics rehearsal.
Next up Barney Morris, Philip Payne and Matthew Cudby covered the
solar eclipse which is happening tomorrow, Friday 20th March. Barney and Philip
interviewed Mrs Thust ahead of the final day's Science Week events.
Sporting achievements and the Arts Award were covered by Sophie
Gander and Sophia Von der Beck, who interviewed Ms. Maynard and the high-flying
students, Bill Saunders in Year 9 and Ollie Hopkins in Year 10.
Comic Relief was covered by Chawana Mayenge and Daisy Buckenham,
who interviewed Mrs. Hickman about school and national fundraising.
There were refreshments provided for us, which included biscuits
which were very nice!
We’d like to thank the Year 10 Media Studies students Terry
Fordham, Jay Sinden, Ashley Bishop and Harvey Melvin-Harris for helping us film
and edit.
We all really enjoyed the day it was an amazing experience!
Report by Chawana Mayenge, Barney Morris, Corin Beckwith and
Philip Payne
