bbc news school report
My name is Dhamen and I am part of the BBC News School Report team for Villiers High School. This year me and many others were lucky enough to
be involved with this amazing project. Each week, after school we worked together to find and research news stories; rewriting them to meet our deadline! The world of journalism and news is all about deadlines! You also need to understand who your target audience is and be impartial at all times. Being part of the School Report not only helps improve our English and journalism skills, it helps us to express ourselves through what we are doing and to understand ourselves and our capabilities even better.
The Big Day when hundreds of schools go ‘live’ is in March, and the day is action packed from start to finish! From finding the stories, to writing them, being in control of the camera and being a reporter. There were some ups and downs but we as a team worked very hard and everything worked out in the end; as all our stories and news were excellent; Even if your work comes out blue or the sound doesn’t happen or even if your computer breaks down last moment (like what happened to Mohite), we went through all that. It was a fantastic experience and we learnt about each other quite a lot too. Good luck to the team next year! Let’s see if you do as well as we did!
BBC School Reporter Dhamen Khanna
“When the earthquake occurred I was at my house listening to music and then I ran out shouting and yelling ‘Jesus’. I was afraid and I thought it was the end of the world.”
Alex, 12, tells us about his experience of the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. “After the earthquake, my house was destroyed, I lost my brother. He died. Three days later, I came to my school to stay there. Every day I have a lot of fun with my friends playing soccer and watching TV.
I accepted Jesus as my saviour and I read my Bible every night before I go to bed. One day when I was in class they called me to participate in an interview with some children in London, I was so excited because I’ve never done anything like this before.”
I say to Miss Sherrie, my teacher: “Thank you for this interview. I was happy after that and they asked me for my name, where my family live, and then my age and other questions like why I came to this school. They asked a lot about the situation, about the earthquake”.
haiti
International week by Mohite My message to everyone is….SAVE YOUR WORK!! Read on!
I was presenting for my film all week and those who helped me were Nitesh and Dhamen (camera men). It was very frustrating because we had to do lots of work like, charging the cameras and remembering the schedule, writing intros and outros, missing lessons, breaks and lunch which made me sleepy but in the end I feel I became more responsible, independent and self-confident. The biggest challenge for me was when I had to edit my film footage down from 1 week’s worth of filming to just 30 seconds! Then my computer crashed at home, and I thought all was lost. But, amazingly I managed to do it on the actual BIG Day at the CLC. That was on top of going back a 2nd time to the TV Centre at White City to be interviewed by Gabby Logan on her radio show!
It was a hectic, busy week with lots of effort gone in by all members of staff and students. Thank you. By Mohite Navinchandra.
These photos were all being taken simultaneously while the children were chatting to each other.
Mohite at BBC studios - London
Alex and Bernaldo in their school playground in Port-au-Prince - Haiti.
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