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How large is your mobile telephone bill? Rich Person you ever felt uncomfortable about some of the textual matter messages you receive?

And what's the mental attitude of those in authorization to the usage of mobile telephones when we should be working?

All of these inquiries have got probably been asked in business offices across the state - but they were also the issues investigated by pupils at Marden High School in Tynemouth as their part to the BBC's School Report project.

They started by carrying out a study of mobile telephone usage at their school.

Of the 920 pupils, aged between 11 and 16, responses came from 519, and only three did not have got their ain mobile phone.

Advanced group

This was also a very advanced grouping of telephone users. They were asked whether they had text, photos, pictures or music on their phones, and 460 said they had all four.

I was getting awful messages from a male child I gave my figure to - but it stopped when I confronted him

Survey uncovers textual matter bullying

We then sent three squads of two pupils out to look into each issue. They were helped by others who operated cameras, some of them using mobile telephones to movie portion of the report.

The first squad concentrated on cost. They establish that ,while most students were only disbursement between £5 and £10 a calendar month on their mobiles, a few exhausted as much as £40.

One girl, Katy, told the squad that her £40 measure was not unusual.

And conjecture who's paying the bill? Two one-thirds said it was Mum and Dad, though a few had to lend if they went over a cost limit.

Bullying texts

The study had shown that about a one-fourth of students had received bullying texts, and the squad investigating that issue establish that two pupils willing to speak about it.

Stephen told them: "I was getting awful messages from a male child I gave my figure to - but it stopped when I confronted him."

Kayleigh had gone to see her caput of twelvemonth with her silent after getting insulting messages from an aged male child - and the blustery had quickly stopped.

Our squad concluded that children needed to cognize that they could take action against the mobile bullies.

The concluding issue the Marden High School news squads confronted was what instructors thought of mobile telephone use.

The Head Teacher Saint David Stainthorpe had told us that there was a school policy effectively banning Mobiles from the premises but "if we had a hunt we'd happen 1000 telephones amongst the 920 pupils."

The instructors were asked to listing their concerns and they had plenty - from "happy slapping" and the sharing of expressed mental images to inappropriate videoing of teachers.

Firm stance

Deputy caput Joan Leonard Bloomfield said, that when confronted with illustrations of abuse, "It's very of import that the school takes a very house stance and stairway in quickly."

But this school is a specializer mass mass media college - as the Head sets it "our specialism is the originative usage of digital media" - and instructors are beginning to believe about ways of using mobile telephones as an educational tool.

In one class, pupils filmed an life on a mobile phone. And of course of study during the filming of their school report, the students made great usage of mobile phones, filming some of the shots you will see in their study for the Six Type O Clock News.

So what had they learned?

Rosie told me that while instructors seemed to believe there was more than bad than good about mobiles, she thought they were very utile for keeping in touching with parents.

Her friend Katie agreed that she'd experience lost without her telephone , and then there was a chorus from their neighbours: "I couldn't dwell without my phone".

On 13 March 2007, 100s of schools are making and broadcast media their ain video, audio and text-based news with the aid of the BBC via the School Report project.