BBC Practice News Day

Grade 10 students at Makassed Ali Ben Abi Taleb College were given the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience on 28 January 2012 by deciding it a Practice News Day. This day is one of the sessions that students were committed to do before arriving to the BBC News Day. Prior to that, using online lesson plans and materials, and with support from BBC staff and partners, the project coordinator, Miss Dounia Badereddine, helped students develop their journalistic skills to become School Reporters on that day.

In March, the school will take part in an annual News Day, simultaneously creating video, audio and text-based news reports, and publishing them on a school website, to which the BBC aims to link.

The News Day on 15 March 2012 is a chance for all School Reporters to produce the news on the same day- coming together with the BBC to form a single reporting team working to a single deadline. This day will see students reporting the news for real with an authentic audience, created by the BBC linking to the schools' websites where students' reports will be published. Coverage of the day will also appear on BBC programmes and services.

The British Council and BBC News School Report and schools around the world, such as Makassed ABAT, are working together an exciting opportunity for students to make and broadcast their own news stories with their Connecting Classrooms partners.
Thank you British Council, thank you BBC for offering this chance!!!