So it is right here. Faculty Report Information Day 2013 is upon us – and about 1,000 colleges 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 12 months, and is larger than ever. Faculty 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 Faculty Report web site has full particulars of the vary of subjects being lined.
It’s all a far cry from once we started. A small staff began Faculty Report with the intention of giving youngsters the chance to make the information they thought mattered. Giving them hours of BBC airtime was nerve-wracking, however it proved to be a hit.
In that first 12 months – 2007 – we labored with 12- and 13-year-olds in 120 colleges. What I most bear in mind from that 12 months is seeing faculty reporters on the Six O’Clock Information and pondering that this partnership between colleges 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 in a position to 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 up the flagship Radio 4 programme Girl’s Hour.
There may even be a devoted Faculty Report Reside channel accessible via 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 observe what our college reporters are doing and tell us what you assume.
Helen Shreeve is editor of BBC Information Faculty Report.
