here.When school closures were on the cards earlier this year, bosses at Salford's MediaCity studios knew that would likely be the case.
But, like the schools themselves, they had limited time to prepare for what's been their biggest ever education initiative. Yet despite the short notice, they managed to pull together a mammoth 1,800 lessons on BBC Bitesize Daily Online, with famous faces including the likes Sir David Attenborough, Jodie Whittaker and Jesse Lingard, only too happy to get on board.
In fact figures released just this week, as the summer term comes to an end, show that a record number of parents, kids and teachers turned to the BBC for home schooling support.
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