In which Hannah is a reporter for Sky

Sort of...!

She and her best friend were booked into a workshop at the Sky Skills studio, where the children get the opportnity to research, write, direct, produce and film their own current affairs report. In preparation for this, all attendees were given the chance to choose a topic from the long list of options, things like animal rights (Hannah's first choice), the idea of "celebrity" in our culture, natural disasters, global warming etc. In the end the topic chosen was not anywhere on her list of choices, The World of Money.

We were given some questions to research including finding out what GDP was and how much pocket money children in our family got and what proportion of that they saved and what they spent. We came to the conclusion her oldest cousin is quite odd. He is 18 and earns £100 a month as a tennis coach and claims he saves £95 of that! On the day, children were allocated roles to play in one of four groups. In studio 1, they shot the  introductory segment, studio 2, where Hannah was, filmed an indepth report, studio 3 interviewed an eyewitness and studio 4 interviewed an expert.

Hannah was initially given the role of scriptwriter which panicked her completely  as writing is not something she enjoys, but in the event, another child in their group didn't turn up so they all wrote the script together and Hannah became the reporter. I've yet to see the finished film, but apparently it was good. One of the Sky Skills staff came up to Hannah afterwards and told her that she and the actual Sky presenter who had worked with them thought she was really good. She does, I must say, have a definite stage presence and a love of an audience!

Meanwhile, best friend's mum and I went to Syon Park and had coffee....it's a hard life!