Following their involvement in this year’s BBC School Report project, a class of Year 7s at Saltash.net Community School have visited the BBC’s studios in Plymouth.

The students were greeted by Assistant Editor to BBC Radio Devon, Emma Clements, before being seated in the editorial meeting room. Here they watched Spotlight broadcast live on TV, as it was being recorded just down the corridor from them.

When Spotlight finished, the students moved into the TV broadcast studio where presenter Justin Leigh, weather presenter, Holly Green and all the Spotlight crew were on hand to talk to them and answer questions about their jobs.

Of particular interest was the green screen, which is used to record the weather, and the students were given a crash course on how to use it by weather presenter Holly.

The students were then split into groups and given a full tour of the BBC newsrooms and radio studios, where they were given an introduction to the skills and tools used in radio broadcasting, and even given the opportunity to record something themselves.