MacMillan AcademyYou are in: Tees > School Reports >  Page compiled by students at MacMillan Academy for BBC School Report. BBC School Report 2009 based itself on Teesside, at Middlesbrough's MacMillan Academy, where students had been preparing a series of news items for broadcast.  Read the report prepared by the students.  "It was actually quite hard. We had to plan out and structure all the questions."  "My favourite thing is doing the research for the sports."  "We interviewed the manager of HMV and asked him how the recession has affected him."  "It's very interesting to see what kids' views on news are."  "We've learned that you don't have time to plan stuff. It all just comes to you."  "I was interviewer and, in that, I had to interview people who knew about the recession."  "That involved going out to interview people like Steve Cram and Alison Curbishley."  "If you just ask them anything, they don't know what you're going on about."  "We had to interview the education officer about how the recession is affecting pets."  "I'm a camera woman and director and I tell them where to stand and stuff."  "We've been out interviewing Robert Peston about the recession and people thinking he's caused it."  "We've been trying to think of the links and the interviews."  "It's important to know about what's happening with the Sports Cup funding."  "I've learned that people in Africa aren'tgetting stable food."  "It was quite hard at first, but ocne you learn it's really fun."  "I've seen how much hard work it is. I'm a presenter, so I'll be on the screen."  "When you see it, they actually put a lot of work into it."  "Ours might be going on the local news on the TV."  "You get put on the spot sometimes, but you just have to go out there and do it."  "My favuorite thing has been when we went to the Riverside Stadium to trail the BBC news team."  "I had to carry the camera around and record sounds." You are in: Tees > School Reports > |
