BBC School News Report

27th March 9.00 - Our Year 7 reporters and Year 10 Media students pose at the beginning of the day and show off their press badges

9.30 - Our reporters meet with Mr Smith and Mrs Duck to discuss the plan for the day and select the stories in the news and papers to be covered 

10.00  - Sam and Nathan display the plan of the stories our reporters will be covering.  Scripts are being prepared ready for the filming and stories researched and written for the news stories.

World Theatre Day - today is World Theatre Day and Phoebe and Annalise conducted a lively and interesting telephone interview with the organisers in their Paris office about the significance of the event.   One of their questions was about the value and importance of drama being included in the curriculum in all schools.  

Here is the first of our news stories reported by Keelan, Archie and Marley, Year 7 BBC School Report reporters:

Bayern Munich win Bundesliga in record time

Bayern Munich have retained the Bundesliga title in record time, after beating Hertha Berlin 3-1 

Bayern Munich won the league with 7 matches remaining. Bayern are unbeaten in the league since 2012. However this season has been a revelation with summer signing Mario Gotze being a key playmaker in the team. Our correspondent Keelan was sent out to interview Year 7 fellow student Dan who said: “because of their form and improved squad, Bayern will easily retain the Champions League trophy.” He then added “Lewandowski will come into play when he moves from Borussia Dortmund to Bayern Munich this summer for £30,600,000, also Phillip Lahm was their best player this season as he played in centre midfield, left and right back.”

This season Bayern have played twenty-seven games, won twenty-five, drawn two, so therefore lost zero.

Pep Guardiola has had lots of praise for his win from players and club members, including Javier Macherano who said: “he is another thing entirely; living football is contagious.” Pep has successfully managed Bayern this season and it will be interesting to see if this outstanding team can continue their amazing run.

Kate, Chloe and Tiger report on the fire at Millais School in Horsham:

Tragic Millais fire

Horrific facts have been revealed after a tragic fire in a West Sussex school.

On Thursday 20^th March, at 3pm, fire broke out. The flames swept across Millais School, on Depot Road, Horsham. A 16 year old girl has been charged with arson with intent to endanger life. She is being held in custody by Sussex police.

Millais School is a school for girls aged 11-16. It was judged as outstanding by Ofsted. Unfortunately, the fire destroyed the entire top floor of the school.

The Headteacher, Leon Nettley, was happy with how the pupils and staff reacted to the blaze.

“The pupils have responded magnificently showing great determination to carry on as normal and support each other and the staff.”

He is also concerned with the implications this fire could have on the education of the students.

 “We remain very focused on our core purpose of ensuring continuity of education for the pupils in the school, particularly all of the Year 11 students building up to their GCSE examinations this summer.”

However he was also traumatised by the event.

 “We were all deeply shocked and saddened by events last Thursday but very relieved that the pupils and staff were evacuated quickly and efficiently to a point of safety.’’

Sam and Nathan report on the secret hoard of art recently discovered:

Cornelius Gurlitt: one lonely man and his hoard of stolen Nazi art

Cornelius Gurlitt hoarded more than 1,500 woks of art, some stolen from Jews in Nazi Germany, for more than half a century. The BBC’s Steve Evans was given exclusive access to the high-security storage depot where the 238 treasures he stored at one of his homes, in Austria, are being held.

Imogen predicts a hot summer:

The scorching summer!!!

Britain could be in for the hottest summer this July. Scientists believe that the low-range indications show that this summer will be BOILING! Experts say that May to August will be beautiful, hot and sunny. Parts of the country will be like July’s heat wave all over again with temperatures reaching 28c. A professional forecaster states that heat temperatures can be broken easily!!! But on the other hand it can be very dangerous because you can very badly sun burnt and dehydrated. It can even get to such extremes that no one is allowed to go outside. So be ready this summer to put your sun cream and hats on as this will be a record baking hot, boiling summer.

1.30 pm -  Two of our Media Studies students, Alisha and Lottie, busy filming

2.30pm and our Year 7 reporting team hold up today's headline news
and celebrate a good day's work as young BBC School Reporters

Some comments by our Year 7 reporters at the end of the day:

"I really enjoyed working with my friends and being professional"

"I really enjoyed the BBC School Report; I learned new skills and I also feel more confident- especially when making phone calls to a different country" 

"I really enjoyed it. It was one of the best experiences in my life"

"It was really nice working with other people and it was a great opportunity"