Journalism

From a good question to your own newspaper

What: Children investigate topics, write, photograph and work together on a publication.
Where: At the participating school or lesson location.
When: The groups, lesson days and times are listed with your school's activities.
Who: A specialist teacher from Skills for Kids.

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Programme

What story do you want to tell, and how do you find it? As journalists and editors, children discover how a newsletter or newspaper is created.

Questions and topics

Children come up with topics and practise interviewing.
Text and image

Writing and photography help to convey a story.
Creating a publication

Examples of magazines and newspapers provide inspiration for content and design.

Suitable for groups 5 to 8 (ages 8–12). The teacher adapts the tasks to the group.

Skills children practise here

Asking questions
Writing stories
Editing together

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