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BBC News School Report
Teachers across the UK have been using resources available on the BBC News School Report website to help their 11-14 year old students develop journalistic skills and become "School Reporters".
As part of the project, hundreds of schools will attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the largest interactive weather report on Thursday 11 March. Teenagers across the UK will take a temperature reading for their area at 9.15am and feed the data to the Weather Centre at BBC Television Centre.
The temperature readings will then be used to fill in a BBC Weather map for a special broadcast later in the day. Each school taking part has a temperature disc on the map which has been located using the coordinates of the school and the combination of the discs on the map will show the variation of temperatures across the UK.
The record attempt is part of this year's BBC News School Report – a project taking place on the same day to engage 11-14 year olds with news and bring their stories and voices to a wider audience.
This year more than 700 schools across the UK will make and publish their own news stories – on every topic under the sun – including the day's weather. Around 25,000 teenagers will take part, simultaneously creating multi-media news reports, to a deadline of 2.00pm and publishing them on their school websites by 4.00pm.
The BBC News School Report website will link to these websites and will also stream School Report Radio and School Report live for the day.
Many schools have enhanced their foreign news coverage by talking to other schools around the world, and for the first time schools in South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria and Kenya have been involved as part of a joint initiative with the British Council's Connecting Classrooms programme.
Students' reports will also be available on the BBC's Red Button service and there will be coverage throughout the day on the BBC's international, national, regional and local TV, radio and online services.
This is the fourth year for the Royal Television Society award-winning School Report project.
