Four schools have won the Schools Question Time Challenge for 2005. Two pupils from each school will work alongside David Dimbleby and his production team to produce a special edition of Question Time on 30 June.
The winners are:
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Bede College, Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees
- Ilford County High School, Essex
- St Teilo's CiW High School, Cardiff
- Whitby Community College, North Yorks
 |  If last year is anything to go by it will result in a really stimulating edition |
Students from the winning schools will first get together with the Question Time team in May to begin preparations for this year's Schools Question Time.
They will be doing the research for the programme as well as taking on important production roles.
David Dimbleby said he was looking forward to working with them.
"Working with the normal production team they take the lead in all the key decisions about the programme.
"If last year is anything to go by, it will result in a really stimulating edition which will highlight younger people's concerns and interests and which our viewing audience of all ages will enjoy."
The students will decide who goes on the panel, which questions to choose on the night and the age range of the audience.
The special edition programme will be broadcast in the regular time slot on BBC One in June.
The four winning schools were chosen from a shortlist of 12 finalists who each held their own local Schools Question Time event in March.
| 2005 FINALISTS Bede College, Billingham Archbishop Temple, Fulwood, Preston
Southlands High School, Chorley, Lancashire Whitby Community College, Prospect Hill, Whitby Adams Grammar School, Newport, Shropshire Ilford County High, Barkingside, Ilford City and Islington 6th Form College, London Merchant Taylors', Northwood, Middlesex Poltair Community School, St Austell, Cornwall St Teilo's CiW High School, Penylan, Cardiff Knox Academy, Haddington, East Lothian Hamilton College, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire |
The challenge, supported by the BT Education Programme and the Institute for Citizenship, allows pupils to learn about citizenship, contribute to stimulating discussions, improve their speaking and listening skills and engage with members of the community.
This year's challenge was launched in October 2004 and invited schools to apply for a free citizenship education pack which helped them write a proposal showing how they could stage their own Schools Question Time Challenge event.
From the entries, judges chose 12 finalist schools which were each given a �500 cash grant and professional support to stage their event.
A team of judges from BT, the Institute for Citizenship and the BBC visited each event and the four winning schools were chosen.
Schools Question Time Challenge is an initiative in active citizenship supported by BT, the Institute for Citizenship and the BBC. It is a three-stage process which firstly offers schools a free resource pack to support directly the teaching of citizenship in the classroom, secondly consists of the Challenge - to put on their own Schools Question Time event - and thirdly the chance to work with David Dimbleby and his team on a real Question Time.
Curriculum based work sheets based on speaking and listening, enquiry and debate, teamwork and critical self analysis form the basis of the pack. Schools which put on a Question Time style event in their own school and, in so doing, demonstrate that they have taken the citizenship lessons of the pack to heart, can send students to become David Dimbleby's production team on Schools Question Time.
Schools Question Time will be broadcast on BBC One at 2235 BST on Thursday, 30 June, 2005.
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