Thousands of students from 800 schools reported the news for the 2011 BBC News School Report Day

On the 24 March more than 30,000 pupils from around the UK turned their classrooms into newsrooms as they made the news for real as part of the BBC NEWS School Report. Children from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland made the news, live on BBC Television, Radio and online.

The RSSCSE worked with the BBC NEWS School Report team on the annual event that aims to interest young people in news of all sorts, by giving them the chance to make their own news.

The RSSCSE team and the BBC News School Report team worked with schoolteachers and pupils to design, write and produce an online survey comprising 29 questions that were of interest to school children aged 11 - 16. Over 320 of the BBC News School Report-registered secondary schools took part in the survey. After completing it, some of them reported on the results live as part of the BBC NEWS School Report day that was transmitted  from the new BBC studios at MediaCity, Manchester, on 24 March. Neville Davies and Kate Richards took part in the transmission at the studios by helping pupils to interpret the results from the survey.

 

 

 

 

 

The electronic survey, compiled and hosted by the RSSCSE, ran for 6 weeks and was completed by over 24,000 children aged 11 to 16. It gave a unique insight into the daily lives, fears and aspirations of a generation of young people in the BBC News Report registered schools. As well as interpreting and commenting on the survey results the RSSCSE also provided teaching resources based around the survey responses.

For the day of the live School Report, two members of the RSSCSE team travelled to Media City in Salford to be interviewed and assist schoolchildren during the live reporting. The event was widely covered by the BBC and generated great interest both nationally and regionally.

For the RSSCSE it was a chance to raise statistical awareness amongst school children and highlight the importance of using real data to inform, instruct, plan and make decisions.

You can view video clips and audio from some of the live recordings made on the day at the BBC NEWS School Report home page.

The 2011 BBC News School Report survey results, with pictures, can be viewed at the 2011 BBC News School Report survey.

You can download a PDF copy of the 2011 survey report from here