BBC News School Report gives 11-14 year-old students in the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience. On March 26^th 2009 Sunderland Schools will be preparing a news broadcast as the final part of the BBC School News Report Project. Pupils will become involved in finding, gathering, writing, assembling, ordering and broadcasting news.  They will record interviews, use video and green screen technology to record their reports from the Video Studio in the CLC @ St Roberts. Students from the University of Sunderland will be providing valuable support on the day of the event. More information here

On 26 March 2009, schools will take part in a 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.

During News Day 2008 students and their work featured on News 24, Breakfast News, the One O'clock and Six O'clock News, Newsround, Radio Five Live, Radio 4, 40 local radio stations, 12 regional TV stations, BBC Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and many local and national BBC websites.

The School Report website also became a TV channel and a radio station streaming pupils' news reports and coverage of school-based activities throughout the school day. It was also available on the BBC's red button service.