So it is right here. College Report Information Day 2013 is upon us – and about 1,000 faculties are due to participate, making the information that issues to them.
They’ll seem throughout BBC Information – on TV, radio and on-line and on regional information programmes.
The venture is now in its seventh yr, and is greater than ever. College reporters are in Canterbury to witness the enthronement of the brand new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, and we additionally return to the Olympic Park in London to look at the legacy from the 2012 video games. And there is extra – the BBC College Report web site has full particulars of the vary of matters being lined.
It’s all a far cry from once we started. A small staff began College Report with the purpose of giving youngsters the chance to make the information they thought mattered. Giving them hours of BBC airtime was nerve-wracking, but it surely proved to be a hit.
In that first yr – 2007 – we labored with 12- and 13-year-olds in 120 faculties. What I most bear in mind from that yr is seeing faculty reporters on the Six O’Clock Information and pondering that this partnership between faculties and the BBC had developed into one thing larger than we ever thought it may very well be.
Quick-forward to 2013 and we’re capable of attain even additional, each in geographical phrases and into the BBC’s output. We’ll be broadcasting dwell from Radio Foyle in Londonderry, and taking on the flagship Radio 4 programme Lady’s Hour.
There will even be a devoted College Report Reside channel accessible by the Purple Button. We’ll be updating a dwell information feed on our web site and our @BBCSchoolReport Twitter feed all through the day, so please comply with what our college reporters are doing and tell us what you assume.
Helen Shreeve is editor of BBC Information College Report.