Currently, the media have a serious impact on the life of the younger generation. How to help your child not get confused in such a stream? A school newspaper will be a great option for a child to master the skills of information work.
Relevance
Creating a school newspaper is a responsible event, involvement in which allows you to develop communication skills, teamwork. In addition, such a lesson is an excellent educational tool, a good incentive to increase interest in the educational process. How is a school newspaper created? Schools try with its help to inform children and their parents about the most interesting events taking place in the life of an educational institution.
Work on regular news releases is associated with the direct participation of students in various social events, the consideration of serious social problems, the expression of their own point of view about the events taking place in the school.
Periodicals
The school newspaper is a periodical where materials about all current events are published. The volume of release is from 2 to 50 pages. Unlike other periodicals, the school newspaper can be issued once a week, per month or quarter. Different styles and genres in its design are acceptable. Most of the space should be given to journalistic works and operational information. For example, interviews, essays, in which there is a story about teachers, the best students of an educational institution, are popular.
The school newspaper is a great start for future poets and writers, correspondents. Such materials can be devoted to a public holiday or an interesting event organized in a particular educational institution.
Newspaper classification
They are usually divided by the frequency of release into daily, weekly, monthly options. For schools, the monthly option is considered optimal.
Depending on the scale of readers and the area of distribution, newspapers are divided into regional, district, local, large-circulation, and nationwide. Within the framework of the educational institution, the local version of the periodical is supposed to be published.
By the nature of the issue, such a publication is a mixture of entertaining, commercial, advertising look. The founder of the school newspaper is an educational institution, so the target audience will be schoolchildren, teachers, parents of students.
Useful Tips
The calling card of any publication is its name. It should be bright, memorable, unusual. For example, a school publication can be called:
- "For you and for friends."
- School BOOM.
- "Our friendly family."
- "Planet of our friendship."
In order to come up with a name for the newspaper, you can declare a contest at school.
Finally
The prototype of a modern newspaper were ancient manuscript books. Julius Caesar published The Acts of the Senate, and in 911, Jin Bao appeared in China. Much time has passed since those distant times, but the newspaper has not lost its relevance and relevance among readers.
In a school life filled with vibrant and interesting events, the print media is a great way to organize all events. At present, young publicists and poets, photographers successfully publish their print media in almost all Russian schools.
Quite often, children are engaged in issues of a school newspaper as part of continuing education. For example, a school for young journalists is being created in an educational institution, whose duties include the design of the layout, content, as well as the direct release of a school print publication.