Countdown to 成人论坛 News School Report News Day
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| 16:10 UK time, Friday, 21 January 2011
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It鈥檚 just nine weeks to go until Thursday March 24 鈥檚 鈥楴ews Day鈥 when schools across the UK turn their classrooms into newsrooms and thousands of 11 to 14-year-olds become 成人论坛 School Reporters, producing real news for a real audience.听
We鈥檙e in our fifth year and we鈥檝e worked with over 1000 schools, placing 成人论坛 mentors in many of them, supporting and encouraging students to engage with news.听
Yesterday was a 鈥楶ractice News Day鈥 听for the schools taking part and we gathered stories and updated a . School Reporters covered a wide variety of stories including the dangers of texting while walking, how teenagers are stereotyped by some shop assistants and the new changes to education.听
I spoke to Daniel, 15 from Bolton School Boys Division during the day to get an update from his school. 听He's a on the project, "It was chaos at first because of network issues, we had people fixing software all around us but in the end it did get fixed... I like the rush to get it all finished in time and think through the consequences if something doesn't work." As well as the challenge of finding the facts on a story, that's exactly why 听鈥听it's authentic. On News Day every school taking part publishes their news on their website and we link to them all from an .
School Report helps the 成人论坛 fulfil its public purpose听to 鈥渟ustain citizenship and civil society鈥. It does this in three ways: by engaging young people with news, by bringing their voices and stories to a wider audience and by sharing some of the 成人论坛鈥檚 public service values such as fairness, accuracy and impartiality since so many young people are distributing their own content now. 听
Yesterday Education Secretary Michael Gove announced听听that he would review England's national curriculum. School Report has been designed to work with any level of ability, any group size, and with any of the curricula in the 4 nations of the UK so I鈥檓 confident we鈥檒l stay relevant whatever the review finds.听
Registration for this year鈥檚 News Day is closed but 听or try out our . On our website you can find out more about what we do and see the content produced at .
Let me know what you think by commenting below.
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Helen Shreeve is Editor of 成人论坛 News School Report
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