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Good afternoon, Newsrounders, Nel and Ricky here. We're live, it's | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
five, so let's take a dive into the biggest stories of the day. Coming | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
up, we'll meet Kurt, the dog whose hearing is out of this world. And | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Leah has getting up to her knees in fish to kick off a brand-new series | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
of Wild Five. But first to new rules about the | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
way your homework gets handed out. The man in charge of education in | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
England, Michael Gove, says that schools should have more of a say | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
on how many extra hours you do. It's after parents complained that | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
too much homework meant kids were spending less time with their | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
families. But as I've been finding out, the new rules don't | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
necessarily mean you'll have less to do. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Homework, the one word guaranteed to get a reaction. I don't like | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
homework at all. I only like it when it is creative. I like it | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
sometimes. For years, you have been asked to do a bit extra after class, | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
but in England the rules have changed. In the 1998, the Labour | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
government outlined the current guidelines that recommend it or | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
five-7 euros to one of homework per week. All that kids are expected to | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
do two and a half hours. So how would the new rules differ? The | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Government want their teachers to decide how much you do instead. The | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
change came about because parents complained that too much homework | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
meant kids were not getting enough time to enjoy family life. I think | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
that we do get too much in year six. No, I don't think we get enough, | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
because we only get one page per week. Who should decide how much | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
you do, teacher or government? think it should be the head teacher, | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
because the Government have more pressing problems than homework. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Northern Ireland and Wales already have different roles, and in | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Scotland teachers, pupils and parents decide on the amount of | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
homework together. But how do they make that decision? How do you | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
decide how much homework we have? In this school, we leave it to the | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
teachers to decide how much is realistic for each class and how | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
much they need to do. The changes are already in place, but that does | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
not mean you will get less homework. You could end up with more homework | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
than you bargained for. Well, you've been having your say | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
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Now it's time to kick off a special week of Wild Five reports. For two | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
months, Leah has been travelling all over the UK to seek out the | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
biggest stories from our coastline. Today she's looking at the problem | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
of overfishing, something that costs countries around Europe | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
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Fish and chips always tastes much better by the seaside, but what a | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
long we have been eating the same types of fish, and that is putting | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
the ocean and a lot of pressure. For years, fishermen caught | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
whatever they wanted, and as boats got bigger, so were the catchers. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
Overfishing makes it on to our card because popular species have taken | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
a big hit across Europe. That prompted Britain and other | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
countries in the European Union to get together and agreed limits on | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
how much should be caught. The limits stop fishermen being able to | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
catch whatever they wanted, and that in turn meant that numbers | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
have slowly started to recover. I have come to Newlyn harbour, where | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
fishermen have been changing the way they catch, making sure they | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
take just enough and not too much. Welcome aboard, let's go fishing. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
It is called sustainable fishing. Stefan used to catch cod and | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
haddock. Now he fishes to order and puts back the thing she does not | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
need. Today he is after herring and sardines. It is a lot different, | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
because we are targeting fish, rather than telling nets for miles | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
and scooping up different varieties that we do not want. This is very | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
targeted, that is why it is sustainable. His boat uses sonar | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
technology so it can identify what type of fish are in the water. If | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
he is at the sardines, he can see exactly where they are, which means | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
he does not waste time catching And then our biggest catch of the | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
night. So we have a 20 tan catch of herring in that that right now. We | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
only need about five, so we will take what we need and put the rest | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
Fresh of the boat, the skies will be sent to supermarkets, and they | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
could end up on your plate, but because of the big effort from | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
everyone here and how they are caught, it should mean there is | :05:32. | :05:41. | |
plenty more fish in the sea. Tomorrow she is looking for | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
dolphins off the north of Scotland. Now, we've all heard of guide dogs | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
for the blind, but what about dogs for the deaf? For the first time, | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
specially trained hearing dogs have been given to kids in the UK, and | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
it's making a big difference. Getting out of bed in the morning | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
can be tough, but 11-year-old James has a secret weapon. He's deaf and | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
can't hear his alarm. But his dog Kurt is always on hand to help him | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
out. He's one of the first kids in the country to get a specially | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
trained hearing dog for the deaf, and it's making quite a difference. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
I love my dog, and he's a very good boy. Kurt has been trained to | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
respond to certain sounds and commands, and that means he can | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
also help his mum out around the house. If I'm cooking downstairs, I | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
can call the dog. Kurt will go and get James, give him a nudge. James | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
will say, what is it? And he'll follow Kurt back down to me. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
most importantly, Kurt helps keep James safe. James can't hear things | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
like a smoke alarm, so when it goes off, Kurt finds James and lies down, | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
telling him that there is danger. Kurt is one of just 12 hearing dogs | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
helping kids in the UK. Kurt is my best friend. And it's clear that | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
James wouldn't swap him for the world. | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
What a lovely story! Finally, the latest PCs of nature making a big | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
splash, this is a classic in Argentina in South America. Huge | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
chunks of ice have been crashing into the sea, creating these | :07:19. | :07:25. |