Highfield Humanities College's TV station broadcasts a news bulletin to classes each afternoon through the school's interactive whiteboards.
Adam Leach, the 15-year-old who suggested the idea and the station's editor, said he wanted to get the school into the 21st century. "I'm into TV and while most schools have radio stations or newspapers, I felt 'we're in the 21st century now and should have a TV station'," he said.
The school provided just under £5,000 from its extended schools and gifted and talented budgets to buy the software, cameras and computer equipment needed to set up Highfield Humanities College TV. The six pupils involved in setting up the station, which started broadcasting at the start of the current school year, also took part in an NVQ Level 3 video-editing course in preparation for the launch.
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