On Thursday 15th March pupils from all year groups from Prior’s Field School will be joining up with around 1000 schools across the UK making the news.
The pupils are taking part in BBC News School Report, a BBC project to engage 11-16-year-olds in the news.
Ex-teacher and BBC News presenter, Huw Edwards, is lending his support to the project.
He says: “I'm involved because I want to give young people the chance to make the news themselves, and I want to share the principles of good journalism.”
Over the past few months the students from First to Sixth Form have been working hard, training to be top journalists, carrying out interviews and producing reports.
Ms Kervin comments
‘Students at Prior’s Field have their own Girls Allowed Radio Station and have been working hard all year to prepare for this event. In recent months they they have interviewed high profile visitors to the school, such as Carol Ann Duffy, authors Peter Hall and Samantha Mackintosh and explorer James Hooper.
On Thursday at 2pm girls will be broadcasting their news, covering the stories of the day as well as their special report on events around the school. Year 11 student Susannah Whitmarsh attended the People Power conference in London and interviewed some high profile speakers there about the power of the individual to change our planet. Lydia Ferguson in year 8 interviewed the Lower Sixth Religious Studies group following their visit to Aushwitz and year 7 pupil Kiki Rusak and Eleanor Wilson prepared a piece on the newly refurbished tuck shop.
Lydia Ferguson and Bella Rusakcommented: ‘It’s been great fun. Our favourite bit so far has been preparing the vox pop sound bites that the BBC might use on the day.…’