Year 2 pupils at Burgess Hill School for Girls joined hundreds of schools across the country in a bid to break the world record for the largest interactive weather report.
The girls joined in with the BBC News School Report as part of their Geography topic on The Local Area. They took temperature readings at 9.15am on Thursday 11th March and emailed them to the BBC to be included in a special broadcast.
Eleanor Holdcroft, a Year 2 pupil said, ‘We were surprised to see that it was only seven degrees Celsius – it felt much colder!’
Each school taking part has a disc on an interactive weather map which will be used to show the variation of temperatures across Britain.
To create a new record more than 250 schools needed to send in their temperatures and the BBC believe this target was reached and are waiting for the Guinness World Records to give their official verification.
The activity aims to encourage children to develop journalistic skills and engage with the news. BBC Forecaster, Carol Kirkwood, commented on the event on the BBC Breakfast programme saying, ‘The weather is the one thing in our lives which changes on a daily, even hourly, basis. It's hugely interesting and lots of fun.’
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| Year 2 pupils with their thermometer |
12/03/10
