:00:00. > :00:22.Coming up shortly, Jim Naughtie talks to the Pulitzer prize-winning
:00:23. > :00:24.writer Siddhartha Mukherjee in Meet the Author.
:00:25. > :00:26.Today marks the annual BBC News School Report.
:00:27. > :00:28.It gives 11-16 year-old students in the UK the chance
:00:29. > :00:31.to make their own news reports for a real audience.
:00:32. > :00:32.An increasing number in that age-range struggle
:00:33. > :00:34.with feeling unhappy, self conscious, according
:00:35. > :00:36.to a special survey carried out as part this year's School Report.
:00:37. > :00:38.Bryony MacKenzie caught up with Jordan Stevens,
:00:39. > :00:46.from the Rizzle Kicks, who started his own social media
:00:47. > :00:52.campaign to get young people talking openly about mental health.
:00:53. > :00:54.# Mama do the hump mama do the hump hump, mama.
:00:55. > :00:57.# Won't you please let me do the hump hump...#.
:00:58. > :00:59.He found fame with a hip-hop duo, Rizzle Kicks, now Jordan
:01:00. > :01:04.is being asked tough questions by school reporters about the tough
:01:05. > :01:16.Have you or someone close to you experienced either mental
:01:17. > :01:18.health issues or the stigma attached to that?
:01:19. > :01:22.In school during my GCSEs I got diagnosed with ADHD.
:01:23. > :01:27.I was always the hyper kid, I got told to calm down all the time
:01:28. > :01:30.and it is the most infuriating thing for someone who cannot calm down.
:01:31. > :01:38.Jordan began his own social media campaign to get young people talking
:01:39. > :01:45.Becoming like famous gives you all this kind of stuff,
:01:46. > :01:49.you know, and I was able to afford a flat and these kind of things that
:01:50. > :01:52.people are like working day in day out to try and get but the reality
:01:53. > :01:58.is that does not compensate for any kind of emotional stability,
:01:59. > :02:01.in fact, it can often contribute to quite poor emotional stability.
:02:02. > :02:07.According to a School Report survey, half of all pupils admit to having
:02:08. > :02:09.negative feelings, but do not ask for help.
:02:10. > :02:12.Being in Year nine, sort of changing as a person,
:02:13. > :02:15.it is a way to control change and it was something that
:02:16. > :02:18.Florence developed anorexia when she was 14.
:02:19. > :02:22.The reason I did not come out and say what I had been
:02:23. > :02:24.through and what happened was because people did not
:02:25. > :02:27.understand where I was coming from and, you know, it took a lot
:02:28. > :02:31.of guts for me to say I had a problem and also I was in denial
:02:32. > :02:34.because I was embarrassed and I thought that it was not normal
:02:35. > :02:39.and it was not something that was OK.
:02:40. > :02:41.Jordan wants his message to reach primary aged children.
:02:42. > :02:45.To just remove the idea that it is kind of like some taboo,
:02:46. > :02:47.to be open about how you feel and your mentality is,
:02:48. > :02:56.Giving help to those who need it even earlier.
:02:57. > :02:59.The survey commissioned by BBC School report to assess how teachers
:03:00. > :03:02.and students feel about mental health provisions suggests that half
:03:03. > :03:05.of young people who experience negative feelings do not ask
:03:06. > :03:08.for help - and a third of 11-16 year olds do not feel confident enough
:03:09. > :03:23.People cannot see mental health. It does not surround you like a bubble.
:03:24. > :03:29.If you have a broken leg, you can show somebody an x-ray and they will
:03:30. > :03:35.go, oh, yes, you have a broken leg. The mental health is so personal and
:03:36. > :03:39.so scary and so, you know closed. People keep it to themselves. It is
:03:40. > :03:43.something embarrassing, weather or not there is a stigma around it, you
:03:44. > :03:47.do not feel as though you functioning the way a normal human
:03:48. > :03:52.being should, and that is something in is scary in its often people do
:03:53. > :03:55.not publicise that. Just because someone has a mental health issue,
:03:56. > :04:01.does not make them different, but similar. They do have a difference,
:04:02. > :04:06.but we are all human beings. And we all have our own opinions and our
:04:07. > :04:10.own attitudes and just because someone has OCD or mental health
:04:11. > :04:17.issues, it does not change that person massively. Mental health is
:04:18. > :04:21.not an issue we find easy to talk about. Most of the time, we don't
:04:22. > :04:28.say anything at all and often, suffer the consequences. Here at our
:04:29. > :04:32.school we found a way to tackle this. We've introduced a scheme
:04:33. > :04:36.called what's on your mind which it sees supervising pupils giving
:04:37. > :04:39.lessons mental health younger pupils. I think it is much better
:04:40. > :04:42.when it is young people talking about mental health to other young
:04:43. > :04:48.people. I believe that if this is delivered the way... In this way, I
:04:49. > :04:54.would have taken a much more seriously. We've been doing
:04:55. > :04:58.presentations and slide shows and we made them interesting, trying to get
:04:59. > :05:03.the attention of the pupils. I thought it was a good method, as the
:05:04. > :05:08.pupils can see it as well as hear it talking about it. It is hoped the
:05:09. > :05:14.programme will show the younger children it is OK to talk and open
:05:15. > :05:19.up about problems they may have. You learn our box -- all all been taught
:05:20. > :05:24.by your peers. If it's a teacher, you just think it's their job,
:05:25. > :05:27.that's what they are supposed to do. It is helping so many people on so
:05:28. > :05:32.many levels and I think it's a positive thing. It is very forward
:05:33. > :05:35.thinking. It is a great idea that we've got the seniors and the
:05:36. > :05:39.workshops, because they are making a big difference. It is allowing
:05:40. > :05:42.junior pupils to get to know the seniors a bit better and gives them
:05:43. > :05:46.another option off, I'm not quite ready to tell a teacher yet, but I
:05:47. > :05:53.may be ready to speak to a senior pupil. There are older people to
:05:54. > :05:56.talk to, not a parent, a teacher or a friend, just somebody what
:05:57. > :06:01.otherwise disconnected from. You can sit quietly and speak to them and
:06:02. > :06:04.that is a great way for people to be able to overcome or begin to
:06:05. > :06:09.overcome the mental health problems. Perhaps if there were more
:06:10. > :06:10.initiatives such as this suffering in silence would be a thing of the
:06:11. > :06:12.past. School reporters also got the chance
:06:13. > :06:15.to ask for advice from TV doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken
:06:16. > :06:25.about issues that Many young people have told us
:06:26. > :06:33.another big issue is a body image and be gay teenager is about time
:06:34. > :06:38.your body is starting to change. How do people feel about their
:06:39. > :06:42.appearance, happy, green for OK a read if you're a bit worried about
:06:43. > :06:44.your appearance. How do you feel about your appearance? Green for OK
:06:45. > :06:58.and read if you're a bit worried. You don't always feel good about the
:06:59. > :07:02.way you look, sometimes we have good days and sometimes bad. What do we
:07:03. > :07:08.make of that and of body image? Is that difficult for teenagers? It is
:07:09. > :07:16.extremely difficult. When your body is changing you do not know what you
:07:17. > :07:20.will look like as an adult, I would say even talking about body image,
:07:21. > :07:24.there are probably people here who wants you raise that topic and they
:07:25. > :07:28.say, though if I think about it, I can dredge up a lot of things I do
:07:29. > :07:37.not like about my body, my weight, the fact I'm losing my hair, and the
:07:38. > :07:42.floors they can see merit in me. -- they can see reflected in me. I've
:07:43. > :07:44.made a number of television programmes about weight loss and
:07:45. > :07:51.have dealt with patient is keen to lose weight. And I always notice
:07:52. > :07:56.that no one will love you any more or like you anymore when you lose
:07:57. > :07:59.weight. A lot of the blues the way to realise that life didn't get
:08:00. > :08:03.better the way they thought it would. Weight loss is only one body
:08:04. > :08:08.image issue, but it is the most dominant. If you are thinking about
:08:09. > :08:13.weight, trying to lose it, it is good to be fit and healthy, it is
:08:14. > :08:17.good to have control of your life and losing weight does involve
:08:18. > :08:21.controlling what you do and taking command of what you do. But it is
:08:22. > :08:24.not good to associate those things with your value as a person.
:08:25. > :08:26.Students' well-being was near the top of the list of concerns
:08:27. > :08:31.Students from Tor Bank School in Dundonald, County Down,
:08:32. > :08:33.have been revealing how completing their emotional
:08:34. > :08:42.well-being "five-a-day" keeps them happy and healthy.
:08:43. > :08:56.We are here at our school today for BBC News School Report to find out
:08:57. > :09:01.how we keep our emotions healthy. Our feelings need five a day to be
:09:02. > :09:14.healthy. Those are: taking time to relax makes us healthy. Sometimes I
:09:15. > :09:21.feel happy, grumpy, sad and angry. Talking about your feelings and
:09:22. > :09:29.talking about how we feel every day helps. Helping people makes us feel
:09:30. > :09:49.good. Going outside keeps us healthy.
:09:50. > :09:55.Goodbye! We are all happy and healthy.
:09:56. > :09:57.Another one of the issues being looked at by this
:09:58. > :09:59.year's School Report, is online and cyber bullying.
:10:00. > :10:02.According to the NSPCC, the number of incidents has gone up
:10:03. > :10:06.With the explosion of social networking -
:10:07. > :10:09.is it something students and schools are well enough prepared for?
:10:10. > :10:14.School reporters at St Patrick's College in Maghera have
:10:15. > :10:43.We are going to look at the issue of cyber bullying. What is that? Here
:10:44. > :10:49.we have been learning about cyber bullying. That is any form of
:10:50. > :10:54.bullying which takes place online through smartphones or tablets.
:10:55. > :10:58.Unfortunately, it is rife in our technology driven era. Let us find
:10:59. > :11:08.out more about this issue and the impact it has on the lives of young
:11:09. > :11:12.people today. There can be no doubt that a child will feel both
:11:13. > :11:17.physically and emotionally vulnerable if they become a victim
:11:18. > :11:21.of online bullying. Cyber bullying is a seriously scary issue. The
:11:22. > :11:25.question remains though, do you people really know what to do if
:11:26. > :11:31.something goes wrong? Do not respond or retaliate. Tell a trusted adult,
:11:32. > :11:39.a parent or your favourite teacher. A body 's or destructive actions are
:11:40. > :11:47.about the run problems. Never delete any communications. Remove or block
:11:48. > :11:54.the person. Do not forward a message to anyone. What rules can cyber
:11:55. > :11:59.bullying play when it opens -- can schools play when it often happens
:12:00. > :12:04.outside of school? 56% of young people have admitted to witnessing
:12:05. > :12:08.an incident of online bullying. So we are focusing on that and asking
:12:09. > :12:11.all pupils and young people to stand up to it and even if it is not
:12:12. > :12:19.happening to you, to have strength of character to say it is wrong.
:12:20. > :12:21.As part of this year's School Report, the BBC
:12:22. > :12:24.director-general, Lord Hall, was grilled on a number of subjects
:12:25. > :12:27.Twelve year-old Alex, together with 14-year-olds Yusuf
:12:28. > :12:33.and Rima asked him what his main challenge, as DG, was.
:12:34. > :12:40.The task I've set myself or the organisation is to reinvent what the
:12:41. > :12:44.BBC does, so it appeals to people of your age group and people older than
:12:45. > :12:52.you as well. I profoundly believe the BBC can do that. Have you chosen
:12:53. > :12:57.a new Doctor who were yet? And would you choose another new race or
:12:58. > :13:00.gender? No, not checked and I'm forbidden to say anything about
:13:01. > :13:06.anything to do with who the next Doctor Who might be! Where you are
:13:07. > :13:14.set to lose the Bake Off? Yes, I was very upset. Would you consider
:13:15. > :13:21.moving more BBC channels online like BBC Three? Yes, we learnt a lot from
:13:22. > :13:25.BBC Three, what works online and what works on a conventional
:13:26. > :13:30.environment. I would be careful about moving more channels online.
:13:31. > :13:34.But we know your generation consumer stuff on whatever device you want
:13:35. > :13:41.when you want it. Where do you see the BBC in ten or 20 years? I want
:13:42. > :13:46.to be great programme makers, to continue to be great programme
:13:47. > :13:51.makers and as much in people's lives as we are now, and that means you
:13:52. > :13:57.thinking the BBC is an important part of my life and also, I want us
:13:58. > :13:59.to be recognised globally, not just in the news through the World
:14:00. > :14:03.Service, but also in terms of the programmes we make.
:14:04. > :14:05.It's not just news that Schools have been researching
:14:06. > :14:08.They've also been taking on being presenters
:14:09. > :14:26.Hello, you're watching BBC News and now on score report news day, my
:14:27. > :14:30.colleagues Peter and Ryan from wyvern Academy in Darlington can
:14:31. > :14:35.bring you the latest sports stories. The Cheltenham Festival is underway.
:14:36. > :14:41.There have already been two races and our sports reporter can tell us
:14:42. > :14:46.more. The school reporters working behind the scenes and so we are
:14:47. > :14:48.literally behind-the-scenes here of BBC sport, which you will know and
:14:49. > :14:52.love and if you're paying attention, you will have a spot of the present
:14:53. > :14:56.this afternoon have been a bit younger than usual. I'm not be rude,
:14:57. > :15:00.it is true, because they are here now. Ryan and Peter, you've just
:15:01. > :15:05.presented our afternoon bulletin, how was it for you? It was very
:15:06. > :15:10.nerve-racking building up to it when they said you will be on the BBC
:15:11. > :15:13.News. When you got in there, it was just you and the autocue and it was
:15:14. > :15:18.a lot easier, but the build-up was terrifying. You've got all the
:15:19. > :15:22.technical jargon, you've come all the way from Darlington for this to
:15:23. > :15:29.Salford and of the been an interesting day? Was it like? It was
:15:30. > :15:32.different. I didn't expect it, so it was interesting and quite
:15:33. > :15:36.nerve-racking as well, but then it was weird, you can't forget your
:15:37. > :15:42.nerves when you are in front of the camera. That makes you sound like a
:15:43. > :15:49.natural legs and you two did it this morning. Ever enjoyed it? What you
:15:50. > :15:53.do it for a living? I think I might, actually. It has been interesting.
:15:54. > :15:58.I've certainly learned how to pronounce the names of more rugby
:15:59. > :16:03.players. That is a skill for life! Did you enjoy it? Yes, interesting
:16:04. > :16:06.to see how it works behind-the-scenes. You watch it but
:16:07. > :16:10.never realise what it is like to be sad event at the camera and what
:16:11. > :16:16.goes into making it. Timmer, you are the pro who normally does this. You
:16:17. > :16:19.are worried for your job? Yes, I'm looking forward to going home. I'm a
:16:20. > :16:25.bit worried they will take my job sooner. Simon is much more trouble
:16:26. > :16:30.than me and they were very good, when they? So relaxed and it's
:16:31. > :16:34.weird, even in the four I was also they have been with us, they have
:16:35. > :16:37.learnt a lot and they now seem to have disappeared as well!
:16:38. > :16:39.We'll leave you tonight with a spoken word piece
:16:40. > :16:41.from Success, who's 15 years-old and from London.
:16:42. > :16:44.She said she wanted to portray a very important message about life,
:16:45. > :16:46.and how even in times of trouble we must stay resilient,
:16:47. > :16:51.face and conquer our obstacles to better ourselves.
:16:52. > :16:57.It is a crazy game, but you take it in your stride and for anybody here,
:16:58. > :17:01.that is going through dark times, well, I was there once, but now I
:17:02. > :17:06.shine. Life is like a game as you flow with it and the guys you roll
:17:07. > :17:11.with it. Anything you are going to do, you can get through. You are
:17:12. > :17:16.given this life because God chose you. I was going through the
:17:17. > :17:19.motions, overwhelmed and invoked with emotions and Sally got to a
:17:20. > :17:26.time where I can now understand the things I went through was part of
:17:27. > :17:31.God's greater plan. I put myself with positive energies and I started
:17:32. > :17:36.seeing the movements. I put myself around good people and good vibes
:17:37. > :17:39.and started seeing improvements. And loved all the people that make me
:17:40. > :17:44.smile, because they bring me joy and they make all of this worth the
:17:45. > :17:48.while. And thank you to those who were there when I was down, I was
:17:49. > :17:52.falling so quick I almost hit the ground. But I didn't, because I
:17:53. > :17:57.realised who I am, I stopped using the word cannot and use the word can
:17:58. > :18:02.be. I realised once you bring things into existence, you put in the we
:18:03. > :18:06.can show your persistence. You start seeing results. See faults, because
:18:07. > :18:09.I know how it feels when you know and you cannot smile, but our
:18:10. > :18:15.feeling is just for now and it only lasts a while, because sooner that
:18:16. > :18:18.they will, when you will finally see that to a lock-up in this you will
:18:19. > :18:21.need to find the key and that lies within you within the depths of your
:18:22. > :18:29.mind, dig deep and see what you can find. Believe in yourself and surely
:18:30. > :18:33.you will succeed and I continue to say this for as long as I live. It
:18:34. > :18:43.is not about what you take from this world, but about what you give.