:00:00. > :00:07.You will member on Thursday the BBC held the annual School Report. --
:00:08. > :00:12.remember. Here are some of the best bits.
:00:13. > :00:20.One day every year BBC News gets bigger and younger. Ten years ago
:00:21. > :00:25.the BBC began an experiment with four schools and 30 students. It was
:00:26. > :00:33.called school report. -- School Report. Good afternoon and welcome
:00:34. > :00:37.to the BBC's School Report. Students aged 11 to 16 would get a chance to
:00:38. > :00:43.make the news their way. Could you give us a taster of your favourite
:00:44. > :00:48.rap? Everybody take a look at me, I've got street credibility. Schools
:00:49. > :00:55.across the UK would be turned into newsrooms. School reporters
:00:56. > :01:00.published stories on the website and across the BBC. What is your dream?
:01:01. > :01:05.I want to see every child going to school. Ten years on, it has
:01:06. > :01:11.involved more than 400,000 reporters for more than 2500 schools. We are
:01:12. > :01:16.all former school reporters and we will take a look at what's been
:01:17. > :01:20.going on this year. We are from a public school in Delhi. We brought
:01:21. > :01:25.this monitor at with us and it shows the unhealthy levels of pollution.
:01:26. > :01:29.We will look back at some of the highlights of the past ten years. My
:01:30. > :01:37.mum thinks you are like a modern-day Mr Darcy. We will find out what it
:01:38. > :01:42.means for some of those that have taken part. It felt so surreal to be
:01:43. > :01:53.working with BBC. This is the story of school report in year ten. For
:01:54. > :02:01.some of the 30,000 young people taking part this year, Newsday
:02:02. > :02:07.started like this. -- news day. I just got up and I am so tired! It is
:02:08. > :02:10.ten to 18 Warnie and I am waiting for a couple of school reporters who
:02:11. > :02:19.are meeting someone very special for breakfast. -- to eight in the
:02:20. > :02:25.morning. Good morning. It is an early start, but what are you doing
:02:26. > :02:28.here today? We are interviewing Chris Evans for the BBC School
:02:29. > :02:33.Report. Fantastic. It might be a silly question, but are you
:02:34. > :02:37.excited? Of course! We've been preparing questions for a good two
:02:38. > :02:43.weeks and we are ready to ask them and see if we can get some
:02:44. > :02:47.interesting answers. Today we have two top students joining the team
:02:48. > :02:51.behind the glass. Having said that, they are now in the studio. Good
:02:52. > :02:56.morning! How are you doing? We are fabulous. When we were speaking on
:02:57. > :03:02.the radio they told us there were over 10 million viewers, so that was
:03:03. > :03:09.a bit shocking. Around 150 school reporters were ringed by the two the
:03:10. > :03:16.BBC in London. It wasn't long before school reporters were getting down
:03:17. > :03:21.to work. In here is the editorial meeting for Radio 4's world at one.
:03:22. > :03:30.It is usually behind closed doors today we can go in. The CMA boss
:03:31. > :03:33.went on to... These students to write an editorial meeting about
:03:34. > :03:38.what stories should be in the programme at lunchtime. I found the
:03:39. > :03:45.meeting very interesting. It was a very nice experience and I like to
:03:46. > :03:49.do it again. School Report began ten years ago when the BBC invited four
:03:50. > :03:58.schools to take part in a broadcasting experiment. The BBC
:03:59. > :04:01.back in 2006, but it is still the case, was really concerned about
:04:02. > :04:04.young people not engaging with news and not getting the chance to find
:04:05. > :04:07.out about the world around them, current affairs. The thought was
:04:08. > :04:11.that if you could somehow engage them in schools it might interest
:04:12. > :04:16.them in news and current affairs and that might lead to an interest late
:04:17. > :04:20.in life. The essence of School Report is giving young people a
:04:21. > :04:25.voice and an audience. Dr Who makes a comeback... Students recognise the
:04:26. > :04:32.value of having a real audience and this is a huge motivating factor, so
:04:33. > :04:37.students take extra care because they know their bulletins, blogs and
:04:38. > :04:42.articles will be viewed and read by many people. Another good thing
:04:43. > :04:48.about it is developing student self-worth, confidence. For many
:04:49. > :04:53.school reporters over the years, having a voice has meant covering
:04:54. > :04:56.stories close to home. When the river burst its banks, over a
:04:57. > :05:05.quarter of the Somerset land was flooded. Despite 50,000 sandbags...
:05:06. > :05:12.And 62 pumps operating 24 hours a day, the force of nature was too
:05:13. > :05:16.strong to hold back. This is one of the most deprived areas of the UK.
:05:17. > :05:22.It is pretty rundown in places. Boarded-up shops and NT -- empty
:05:23. > :05:28.houses. There is nothing out of the ordinary for pupils getting the bus
:05:29. > :05:31.to school. These students happen to live on the other side and the
:05:32. > :05:40.school journey involves more than just a bus. Sometimes local stories
:05:41. > :05:44.produced by school reporters can capture national attention, as
:05:45. > :05:50.Raymond, who lives in Hackney in east London, found out when he was
:05:51. > :05:54.13 and the part in School Report. Some people do think of Hackney as a
:05:55. > :05:57.rough area, a bad area where there's a lot of crime, so I thought it
:05:58. > :06:03.would be interesting to talk about. As a young person in Hackney, how do
:06:04. > :06:07.you feel about safety? People don't feel safe and comfortable. I wanted
:06:08. > :06:12.to shed some light on the fact that crime wasn't that bad. Me living in
:06:13. > :06:17.Hackney, as a 13-year-old as a time -- at the time, it wasn't as bad as
:06:18. > :06:21.people thought. I am here with a former gang member who is now a
:06:22. > :06:25.youth worker and is trying to make this a safer place. Showing young
:06:26. > :06:28.people that there's more to life than what they see around them, in
:06:29. > :06:32.terms of all of the negative influences. The local story went
:06:33. > :06:38.national when Raymond appeared on the today programme on Radio 4. We
:06:39. > :06:45.are joined by one young man who has been taking part, Raymond. Can you
:06:46. > :06:50.explain the problem how difficult the problem is? Crime in Hackney
:06:51. > :06:54.isn't really bad. If you get involved in it it is hard to get
:06:55. > :06:58.out, but if you might do business, choose the right friends, it is all
:06:59. > :07:04.right. The whole experience was amazing, having that experience at
:07:05. > :07:09.that age. -- mind your own business. Because of that I've considered
:07:10. > :07:13.going into media in the future. On news day this year more than 1000
:07:14. > :07:20.schools across the UK took part. The BBC in Salford have had around 75
:07:21. > :07:26.school reporters. BBC radio Manchester... This is probably one
:07:27. > :07:29.of the most important buttons. Back in London, these students are
:07:30. > :07:36.speaking to schools all over the country. With help from some friends
:07:37. > :07:38.from Radio one. I am hearing the news gathering area at broadcasting
:07:39. > :07:43.house in London. It is incredibly busy. We have students calling from
:07:44. > :07:50.all over the country and students are also visited by a very special
:07:51. > :07:55.guest, Greg James. Hello, Greg. How are you finding things today? Me and
:07:56. > :07:59.Adam are very busy. We are calling some schools to find out how they
:08:00. > :08:06.are getting on. We're calling on particular school. How is it going?
:08:07. > :08:11.We're through. Just finding out how they are getting on, our students
:08:12. > :08:14.are getting involved. We have another student. What have you been
:08:15. > :08:18.doing with the phones? I've just been finding out some information.
:08:19. > :08:24.Have you found any interesting stories about schools? On school got
:08:25. > :08:27.a visit from the BBC Radio. They called into congratulate them for
:08:28. > :08:35.what they were doing, which was a nice surprise. Five floors up in
:08:36. > :08:41.school reporters are driving their desks at radio one Xtra. How did you
:08:42. > :08:48.find that? Controlling the buttons at the beginning? That was easy! On
:08:49. > :08:56.a scale of one to ten, how easy? Nine. So are you saying everyday I
:08:57. > :09:06.do an easy job? Sort of. Students also report about their own lives.
:09:07. > :09:09.Hello. We are teenagers in 2013, but we think it would be easier to be a
:09:10. > :09:16.teenager in the 1980s rather than now. No one told me about a costume
:09:17. > :09:20.change! Today we are asking the question, how could he first century
:09:21. > :09:24.teenagers are affected by body image issues. We are more likely to forget
:09:25. > :09:26.our school books they am as Khare. But is our fixation with image
:09:27. > :09:43.harming our self-esteem? What psychological effect does
:09:44. > :09:49.selfies have on young people? Positive and negative. Most young
:09:50. > :09:56.people like taking selfies. But as long as they aren't taken too
:09:57. > :10:01.seriously. We've been reporting for BBC School Report. The question many
:10:02. > :10:05.school reporters ask is can young people live above social media? Is
:10:06. > :10:08.not much research on the effect social media is having on young
:10:09. > :10:13.people, what we want to see what all this screen time is doing to our
:10:14. > :10:21.brains. So, we decided to go cold turkey for one week. When the BBC
:10:22. > :10:26.approached us, I was very excited. This is the first day. I'm quite
:10:27. > :10:35.unsure about what I should replace the time I use social media with. I
:10:36. > :10:40.think my stress is going to grow and get bigger. Only three out of nine
:10:41. > :10:43.of us lasted the whole week. I think I felt disappointed in myself,
:10:44. > :10:49.because a lot of my friends did go the week. I couldn't do it. But
:10:50. > :10:55.don't think young Gursel is a test with social media, as School Report
:10:56. > :11:00.revealed. In Kenya were visited. We go back to the good old days of
:11:01. > :11:08.letter writing. I am writing to a friend of mine. Just as a hello,
:11:09. > :11:15.because it has been a long time. The story was broadcast on BBC world and
:11:16. > :11:19.their World Service. That introduction to the School Report
:11:20. > :11:23.back in 2010 wasn't exactly global news. I did a story about my dad
:11:24. > :11:26.winning a competition to go on England football bus. Looking back
:11:27. > :11:33.on it, I think, why on earth did I pick that? But it didn't hold her
:11:34. > :11:39.back. Far from it. Lauren is 19. Now she works as a broadcast assistant
:11:40. > :11:43.at the BBC in London. I am back at William Howard school, the one they
:11:44. > :11:47.left three years ago, the meat and students were taking part in BBC
:11:48. > :11:54.News school report. How do you experience your -- how do you value
:11:55. > :11:58.your experience the School Report? That's the reason why I wanted to
:11:59. > :12:03.join the BBC. It gave me insight into what it was like to work for
:12:04. > :12:06.such a big News Corporation and it was School Report that help me
:12:07. > :12:11.decide that I wanted to become a journalist. BBC journalist Jane Hill
:12:12. > :12:15.has been involved with School Report from the start. One of the young
:12:16. > :12:21.people I spoke to say, I am enjoying the writing, but I am also really
:12:22. > :12:25.enjoying having a go at all of the equipment and machinery. She said, I
:12:26. > :12:28.would never have a chance to even look at this machinery and try to
:12:29. > :12:33.learn understand how it works. I thought, that's fantastic! Just
:12:34. > :12:37.because I am a journalist I can't assume everyone wants to write or
:12:38. > :12:41.broadcast for a career. Baby P want to go into the technical side and be
:12:42. > :12:46.a sound recordist, or a cameraman. -- maybe they want. Over the year,
:12:47. > :12:50.school reporters have done a great job. At the height of the Arab
:12:51. > :12:56.Spring students interviewed students in Tunisia. Hello. Can you describe
:12:57. > :13:03.what it was like being at home when the revolution was happening? It was
:13:04. > :13:12.really scary. Guns fired, pupils are very afraid. They just want
:13:13. > :13:19.democracy, but it was very horrid. Equality.
:13:20. > :13:29.There are school reporters all over the world reporting stories to a
:13:30. > :13:35.global audience. Hello, we are students at a school injuries.
:13:36. > :13:41.Unique of Jewish -Arab coexistence. We want to show you how it works.
:13:42. > :13:47.Follow us. In this class, one teacher speaks in Hebrew and the
:13:48. > :13:53.other in Arabic. It helps to remove barriers and create friendship from
:13:54. > :13:56.an early age. Coexistence is a daily challenge, but the alternative is
:13:57. > :14:01.worse. The story of one extraordinary teenager who has a --
:14:02. > :14:05.inspired many around the world gave one reported the opportunity to
:14:06. > :14:10.travel to the UN. The story begins at a school in Birmingham. Holly was
:14:11. > :14:14.in year nine when she became interested in a Pakistani girl who
:14:15. > :14:19.was shot either Taliban after campaigning for girls to be
:14:20. > :14:24.educated. I started looking at who she was and what she had done. I
:14:25. > :14:27.came across the blog she did and it is great to see that from an early
:14:28. > :14:32.age she was an advocate of female education and the right to equality.
:14:33. > :14:36.And so after that we started getting more interested, started writing
:14:37. > :14:43.reports on staff and then BBC School Report got back to us and said we
:14:44. > :14:46.could get involved. She got the chance to go to New York to report
:14:47. > :14:51.on a speech Malala was making at the UN. Every girl, who raised their
:14:52. > :15:03.voice for their rights. Wholly interviewed Gordon Brown, the
:15:04. > :15:06.UN special envoy to education. What is education Mata? Because it is the
:15:07. > :15:12.only way people can do to themselves. Straight after the
:15:13. > :15:20.interview, we met Malala right after her speech, we were in awe at the
:15:21. > :15:26.opportunity. Holly even reported live from New York. That was quite
:15:27. > :15:33.some speech today, were you in the audience? Yes, we were. We thought
:15:34. > :15:39.it was really good, and there were a few of us watching. She said quite a
:15:40. > :15:45.few inspirational quotes, like the peaceful and love everyone. I felt
:15:46. > :15:52.quite privileged that I was one of the people to be able to see her and
:15:53. > :15:56.hear her voice and speak. This year, students are covering another World
:15:57. > :16:05.News story, the war in Syria. And they are doing it in their own way.
:16:06. > :16:09.We have been linking up with children in Syria who have had to
:16:10. > :16:12.leave their homes because of the conflict. We have suffered from any
:16:13. > :16:21.problems during the last few years. We have become friends with students
:16:22. > :16:24.in Damascus as part of the project. We find that their lives are very
:16:25. > :16:27.different from ours. They told us that when they come home from school
:16:28. > :16:31.they say goodbye to their mothers as if they will never see them again.
:16:32. > :16:35.They keep having to move homes and schools and don't have proper books
:16:36. > :16:40.like us. I have changed three houses in different places, so I have
:16:41. > :16:42.changed three schools. Armed with insights into the lives of young
:16:43. > :16:46.people in Syria they took their questions to the international
:16:47. > :16:48.developer and secretary. Young people in Syria don't have enough
:16:49. > :16:55.desks and chairs or access to technology. What is the UK doing to
:16:56. > :16:59.help them? One thing the UK has really been focused on is trying to
:17:00. > :17:02.get children back into school. School report sometimes throws up
:17:03. > :17:09.moments you would never see anywhere else. They can be revealing. Why
:17:10. > :17:12.anti- wearing a tie? 51% of the pictures on the internet of you
:17:13. > :17:32.don't have a tie on. They can be spontaneous. How am I doing? , I am
:17:33. > :17:43.feeling great! They can be unexpected. We will be reporting on
:17:44. > :17:47.love your toilet week in school. We will get it right, I don't know
:17:48. > :17:52.where this microphone is going. Or they can be downright weird. I was
:17:53. > :18:06.wondering, could you give us a taster of your favourite rap? It was
:18:07. > :18:11.a strange question. After the video went viral, I thought I was famous,
:18:12. > :18:17.everyone will know about it. Public Enemy, Tinie Tempah, they are all
:18:18. > :18:23.great. My dad is probably still more thrilled that I am, he keeps talking
:18:24. > :18:27.about it two years on. In 2012, events in the UK caught the
:18:28. > :18:30.attention of the rest of the world. School reporters were there again to
:18:31. > :18:35.cover the story. The Olympic flame arrives in the UK this evening on
:18:36. > :18:39.board a special flight from Athens. This is the actual tarmac where the
:18:40. > :18:43.Olympic flame will land. It will be travelling for 70 days around the
:18:44. > :18:50.entire UK. It felt so surreal to be working with the BBC. My gosh.
:18:51. > :18:56.Fantastic access, you have spoken to everyone who is important! Did you
:18:57. > :18:59.enjoy that? Yes, it was great to see everything behind the scenes and see
:19:00. > :19:04.the preparations we were talking about. I never had much confidence,
:19:05. > :19:09.so to look at myself talking at the camera, that footage was then going
:19:10. > :19:19.to be on the news, I was really quite proud at the same time of
:19:20. > :19:25.being weeded out. A lot of reporters cover the Olympics, some even
:19:26. > :19:28.interviewed athlete. Since you joined the academy, you haven't
:19:29. > :19:32.really live the life of a normal teenager. I think you miss out, you
:19:33. > :19:37.make some sacrifices. You miss out on going out on the weekends and
:19:38. > :19:41.things, but I am completely happy with missing those little things to
:19:42. > :19:50.be in a position I'm in now. For one school reporter, the Paralympics...
:19:51. > :19:54.This is my best friend Charlie. He has cerebral palsy, and first got
:19:55. > :19:57.involved in the project when he and his able-bodied friend told their
:19:58. > :20:02.story of playing wheelchair tennis together. I think it has been really
:20:03. > :20:06.good, was not only can Abbey play with me, she can come to my world
:20:07. > :20:12.and see what tennis does for me and how much I enjoy it. When the
:20:13. > :20:19.Paralympic Games began, Charlie was chosen to be the official school
:20:20. > :20:21.report blogger. It was absolutely amazing, because I haven't ever done
:20:22. > :20:27.anything like that before, and because I was quite young I felt
:20:28. > :20:35.like I had quite a big sense of responsibility. That wasn't all. We
:20:36. > :20:40.do want to hear from Charlie... He then shared his experiences on five
:20:41. > :20:43.live. Hi Charlie, good to see. You have cerebral palsy and use a
:20:44. > :20:50.wheelchair, so how have you found this event? It has been great, to be
:20:51. > :20:53.honest. It has done a lot for disabled people and disabled sport,
:20:54. > :21:02.and I hope a lot stems off from these games. I am really proud. I
:21:03. > :21:08.think subconsciously, it has made me want to get involved in journalism
:21:09. > :21:12.as I have got older. It has a really positive effect on me. One of the
:21:13. > :21:17.most important jobs of a reporter is holding the powerful to account.
:21:18. > :21:23.School reporters have a long history of asking tough questions. In 2007,
:21:24. > :21:27.School reporters had a chance to ask questions to Tony Blair. Thousands
:21:28. > :21:30.of children my age have died in the war in Iraq. This is too high a
:21:31. > :21:37.price to pay for getting rid of Saddam Hussein? Just before I came
:21:38. > :21:42.here I was speaking to the PM in Iraq. What he would say is that the
:21:43. > :21:47.people who are doing the killing are small minority and they have to be
:21:48. > :21:52.stopped. In 2012, the DJ had the kind of day political reporters can
:21:53. > :21:56.only hope for. You'll make it was really the fracking date. Good
:21:57. > :22:04.afternoon. She got to talk to all three main party leaders. One after
:22:05. > :22:09.another. My school is a terrible place, with cracks in the walls
:22:10. > :22:16.covered with paper and last week we flooded. What are you going to do
:22:17. > :22:21.for Rascal and many others? We are going to spend money on new capital
:22:22. > :22:25.and new buildings for schools. It sounds like yours is a deserving
:22:26. > :22:30.case and perhaps I will have to look at your particular school and see
:22:31. > :22:34.what the plans are. A year later, she followed up the pledge. I
:22:35. > :22:38.received a letter from the PM to verify that our school has been
:22:39. > :22:42.placed on the priority school building programme. Despite this,
:22:43. > :22:48.one year on, our school hasn't changed. I felt proud that I have
:22:49. > :22:54.managed to get to where I was, that I managed to represent the school in
:22:55. > :23:00.a way and to get a voice for the students in the school. Now, the
:23:01. > :23:03.school is being rebuilt. In 2013, School reporters met a leading
:23:04. > :23:09.politician and dared to ask a question on everybody's lips. Do you
:23:10. > :23:15.want to be PM? I am very lucky to be Mayor of London. And then another
:23:16. > :23:24.school reporter asked him. What do you want to be? What you want to be?
:23:25. > :23:28.What is this? I felt a bit awkward, because I asked him twice that he
:23:29. > :23:34.didn't answer. Until he finally got an answer. Genuinely, of course I
:23:35. > :23:39.do. To get that out of him was a really big accomplishment for me.
:23:40. > :23:47.You should be on Newsnight. He should be on Newsnight! This year at
:23:48. > :23:52.the BBC students are putting the finishing touches to their news
:23:53. > :24:00.bulletin. Before they know it, it is two o'clock. This is BBC News School
:24:01. > :24:05.report, I'm Matthew. Welcome to the BBC News School report 2016. The
:24:06. > :24:08.headlines. The Duchess of Cambridge meets School reporters in
:24:09. > :24:12.Edinburgh, we will be what it was like to work it a real royal. School
:24:13. > :24:17.reporters all over the UK are publishing their stories. Fer we
:24:18. > :24:20.have had approaches from Brussels city working with us in the last two
:24:21. > :24:25.years, part of a project funded by the football league called female
:24:26. > :24:31.football development. Some people have families who work in Canada. My
:24:32. > :24:35.father is an electrician who gets most of his work from the plant. It
:24:36. > :24:39.is not a very nice place to work at the moment because everyone is a bit
:24:40. > :24:44.worried for their job. Waking up in the morning is not easy for most
:24:45. > :24:52.teenagers. We usually stay up late, so are we really getting enough
:24:53. > :25:00.sleep? We are reporting from BBC News School report.
:25:01. > :25:04.I am here in the newsgathering area and as you can see, all the students
:25:05. > :25:08.have gone home and that is it for School report 2016. You have been
:25:09. > :25:12.watching the highlights from ten years of school report. To find out
:25:13. > :25:13.more about the project, go to BBC