Wimbledon junior reporters break the big stories (From Surrey Comet)

Wimbledon junior reporters break the big stories

6:00am Saturday 20th March 2010 in

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Young hacks at a Wimbledon school spent a day chasing scoops and grilling sources to mark a national journalism project - with one story making it on to national television.

The BBC’s School Report saw young people across the country pick up notepads and cameras to try out life as a reporter.

Budding journalists at Wimbledon High School were among those involved - with some even appearing on the corporation’s youth news programme Newsround.

A school spokesman said 20, 11 and 12-year-old children and a handful of older pupils had transformed a classroom into a newsroom for the event last Thursday, which saw stories uploaded on to a special school website.

Some junior reporters got a story by chatting with other schoolchildren in Zambia about their daily lives - and the conversation was later featured on Newsround’s coverage of School Report events.

Earlier this month pupils from the Mansel Road school visited the newsrooms at BBC Television Centre to see the professionals at work.

To read the young reporters’ stories visit wimbledonhigh.gdst.net/bbc-school-report.html.