Category: News
Date: 11.02.2005
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Twelve schools have reached the final stage of the Schools Question
Time Challenge.
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The UK-wide scheme, supported by the 大象传媒, BT and the Institute for
Citizenship, helps pupils develop their citizenship and
communication skills by producing local Question Time events.
The 12 finalists from across the UK now have a chance of producing
a special Question Time programme on 大象传媒 ONE in summer 2005.
The Challenge involves pupils staging their own debates based upon
the popular 大象传媒 ONE Question Time format.
The schools won their place in the final by applying for a free citizenship
education pack which helped them write a proposal showing how they would
stage their event with details of the panel they intended to approach,
topics to be discussed and who would chair the event.
The pack is also designed to support the citizenship curriculum and
helps improve pupils' speaking and listening skills through lesson plans
and other learning tools.
The 12 finalists will now make their proposed plans a reality by staging
their own Schools Question Time debate using a 拢500 grant from BT.
They will receive professional support by taking part in a Schools
Question Time workshop, as well as receiving advice from a 大象传媒 editorial
team.
Each finalist will then be visited by judges who will evaluate the
events and elect four schools as the Schools Question Time award winners.
By participating in the challenge, the schools will learn about citizenship,
contribute to stimulating discussions, improve their speaking and listening
skills and engage with members of the community.
Pupils from the four winning schools will collaborate with David
Dimbleby and the Question Time production team to produce a
real 大象传媒 Question Time programme.
David Dimbleby said: "There are few better ways of exciting young people
about the part they can play in democracy than giving them the tools
and letting them get on with it.
"Producing an edition of Question Time is as challenging a participation
in the democratic process as you could want, calling for an understanding
of the issues, a belief in open debate, and a practised ear for opinions
with which you disagree.
"What better recipe for understanding our society and its problems?"
The special edition programme will be broadcast in the regular time
slot on 大象传媒 ONE in summer 2005.
The 12 schools are:
