CHILDREN at a Ramsbottom school turned their classroom into a newsroom to help celebrate 10 years of BBC School Report.

Students from Woodhey High School, in Ramsbottom, took part in Newsround's morning meeting and interviewed one of the presenters on March 10 at MediaCity in Salford.

The tenth year of the BBC School Report was marked with around 30,000 students across the UK joining the BBC in a news broadcast.

Youngsters aged 11 to 16 reported on all the news and sport important to them in 2016.

James Harding, director of BBC News said: “Every year, School Report’s News Day brings thousands of new young reporters to the BBC.

“We hope these young newshounds will discover a little about the nature of the BBC and its place in the wider world; in return we benefit from the wonderful range and energy of their interests.

“They learn what we do; we learn what we must do to capture the imagination of a young and vibrant audience.

“The message to our school reporters is clear, your BBC needs you.”

Highlights at MediaCity included students taking part in a computer coding workshop using the brand new BBC Micro:bit and students seeing how the BBC home page works and getting a chance to live edit a section.

Last year more than 1,000 schools across the UK took part in the award-winning project. Students reported on a range of issues, from social media addiction to why dancing is not just for girls and how Muslim women can wear the hijab. Some even interviewed leading politicians.