Cranford Review
June / 2015
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hursday 19th March 2015 was TI Day 6 at Cranford Community College. Students across the school worked on a range of targeted projects which included a group of fifteen year 9 students who joined the world of journalism and broadcasting and became young reporters for the day. This is the second time the school has undertaken the challenge to take part in the BBC Schools Report programme which provides students with an invaluable opportunity to experience the rigours and stresses of journalism in the age of 24 hour news. Work produced and published was transmitted across the world through the BBC news website. It is this form of first-hand experience that leads to fires being lit and careers being forged. The key focus of the event is to encourage students to take responsibility for their deadlines, manage their time, work as a cohesive and considerate team and to self-direct their learning. This was not simply a one-day affair, preparations were been made over the six weeks leading up to the day during WFactor with a dedicated team. The tasks required of the team were completely new to a great deal of the students and included: the creation of news agendas, investigating the facts, writing reports, informative speeches, perfect autocue scripts and then preforming the pieces live to camera, editing footage, constructing websites all whilst meeting the four o’clock deadline. Though the skills acquired and lessons learnt are all important, it is events such as these that build the community atmosphere that is so crucial to Cranford’s continued success and gives the students a real insight in to what it is really like to be part of the real world of work. Luke Stannard (Media Studies Department)
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