Here are two of our reports from today’s News Day, one on the use of Twitter at Marden and our Sports reporters give us the lowdown on the fortunes of Newcastle and Sunderland, and the weekend’s Manchester derby.
All finished here at Marden, we are now watching over and evaluating our eight news reports, and we’ve made it onto the live school report feed for the third time. Well done everybody!
We’re all done and dusted here, with just rendering of projects required before we watch them back and upload them to our website. And we’ve been clocked once again on the BBC School Report Page!
Mrs. Bloomfield has just taken the weather reporters David, Alex and Chris down to the Boating Lake in Tynemouth, whilst the rest of the team are just finishing off their reports ahead of the 2pm deadline.
It’s lunchtime now but that hasn’t stopped our enthusiastic reporters. Ben’s group are interviewing Mrs. Glover about their Science report, whilst Adam has already bagged 8 interviews, including the headteacher Mr. Morris, for his group’s report about Takeover Day.
Mrs. Robson is delighted with the effort so far on news day:
“I’ve been really impressed with the tenacity and initiative shown by the Year 8 students, organising interviews with staff and students, evaluating the newsworthiness of stories and the vast improvement in their filming and editing skills.”
…and here’s Lara and Ceren filming their introduction as news anchors.
Our reporters are out and about. Here’s Chris and Alex braving the cold to interview their fellow classmates about the weather.
An impromptu round of applause breaks out in the Media Studio here at Marden as we discover the BBC website has picked up on our editorial ideas already – excitement building here on News Day.
UPDATE:
We’ve had our editorial meeting and here are some of the reports that we are looking to cover today:
1. Weather – A frozen lake has been discovered underground in Antarctica, and we’re facing a bit of a freeze here in Cullercoats as well!
2. Sport – Both the North East teams have been struggling during this season’s Premiership campaign; Sunderland won last night, but will Newcastle sell one of their star Senegalese strikers in the transfer window? Also, the debate about racism in football rages on…
3. Nelson Mandela – A global story about the former South African president’s condition as he remains unwell in hospital.
4. Suicide of nurse – The story surrounding the recent Royal pregnancy has been overshadowed by the tragic suicide of a nurse following a radio station’s prank phone call; what are Marden students views on how this story has developed?
5. Twitter – Do you use Twitter? Emily, Lucy and Olivia are looking to report on the impact the social networking site has on our lives here at Marden.
6. Takeover Day – Just one of the many exciting events that we have had recently here at Marden, we were also recently visited by former Newcastle United player Robbie Elliott, who cycled around Europe for the Bobby Robson Foundation.
