BBC School Report marked its tenth anniversary this week.
The initiative from BBC News helps 11 to 16-year-old students develop their journalistic skills.
I joined a group of wannabe hacks at Queens Park High School, Chester, to brainstorm ideas for print- and video-journalism reports.
Check out some of the work from the day here.
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Just time to fit in another workshop for schools before Christmas.
It was, in fact, a return trip to Overleigh St Marys Primary School in Chester to run another media writing workshop for Key Stage 2 (KS2).
The focus this year was news (factual writing) vs. blogs (persuasive writing) and we based our stories around a space theme with the hook of Major Time Peake blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS) on December 15.
Amongst the topics we discussed:
By the end of the morning we had a Newsround-style opportunity to read out our stories with the final versions to go live on the school website shortly — check back for details.
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I went back to school last week.
Well, sort of. Last Thursday marked BBC School Report Day, the day designed by BBC Learning to help schoolchildren make their own news reports.
The project is aimed mainly at secondary schools but I joined a colleague at Horn’s Mill Primary School in Helsby to run a news-writing and media-literacy workshop for year six pupils [pictured above].
The day-long project took a cross-curriculum approach and was based around the class’ set text, King Kong.
The class worked in pairs to research, structure and write a series of news reports about New York City.
After the morning editorial conference, we draw up a news list [pictured below].
Here are some of things we talked about:
Here are a selection of the comments from the learners on the day:
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