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CHARLES EDWARD BROOKE NEWS BROADCAST
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All Year 8 students at Charles Edward Brooke Secondary School in Lambeth have been involved in BBC School Report, working with their English and Media Departments on the skills needed to become a BBC journalist. Out of the whole year a group of 12 students were chosen to represent the school with a TV broadcast on School Report day.
On 5th March the students came for a practice run. The group was split into 3 groups, presenters, the technical team and reporters, with each preparing part of the final broadcast. It was a very useful day, with students learning the skills to run the technical side of filming and recording both live and as roving reporters. Naturally on the day the technology of broadcasting to green screen threw up some new problems that hadn't gone wrong before, but the students worked incredibly hard and well to make sure the final broadcast went smoothly. They were a credit to their school.
The school has a lot to broadcast, having had visits from Huw Edwards from the BBC and Millie Murray, children’s author, to the school, as well as being part of a panel of young people going to Downing Street to interview Gordon Brown.
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Meeting Gordon Brown
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Charles Edward Brooke students were among those invited by the BBC to go to 10 Downing Street to interview the Prime Minister. Several School Report teams interviewed other political leaders, including David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ian Paisley, but Lambeth students joined others from a few schools around the country to grill Gordon Brown about the environment, climate change and education.
The students recorded their visit for the school records, and school staff have been busy putting together a report for School Report day which you can see here. The BBC have broadcast footage of the visit on both their website and on national news, so keep an eye out for the official BBC broadcast on young people finding out what it's like to be in No 10.