Our reporters have just scraped the deadline and the news reports will be up online imminently…well done to all the Year 8s who took part, we are currently filming our anchor introductions…
Ryburn School have been back in touch, here’s what they’ve said:
It went well and we are now ironing out any last minute changes.
We are very excited to be featuring on BBC Radio Leeds this evening!
Lara has been monitoring our other schools’ progress as we act as the hub. She has been e-mailing Georgia at Wales High School, who has been telling us all about being ‘mardy’ (which apparently means being surly), Lara has been filling her in on ‘radgies’, but obviously we don’t have any radgies here at Marden…
Georgia from Wales High School in Rotherham has been in touch, here is what they’ve been doing so far today:
There are about 30 of us Y8 students and we are covering a range of stories. Have you heard about the High Speed Train? Will it affect you? One of our groups is creating a radio report about that.
Another girl is writing a whole newpaper article on her self about a recent single called ‘My Fight’. Others are writing about a local football/rugby arena being demolished and others are creating a TV report about our school dinners.
My group, however is creating a TV report on ‘How our School has Changed!’, you won’t be seeing me on camera though!!
Marden is acting as a Hub school, feeding information from other schools to the BBC vis our website. Ryburn School are currently working on their stories, here is what they’ve been getting up to:
We are full flow and our newsroom is very busy.
We are reporting today on:
1) School Events- including a visit from our Director of Children’s and Young People’s Services.
2) The new Orange Box Centre for young people.
3) What’s in our Food.
Our reporters are underway interviewing and getting footage for their news stories, which include:
1) The Young Americans recent Newcastle tour.
2) The recent budget.
3) Marden news – changing rooms in the school and Mindfulness…
4) A Science report on the Higgs Boson.
5) Sport – Six nations review and Callum McManaman’s horror challenge on Newcastle’s Massadio Haidara.
6) Weather report




