What is the name of the school newspaper to make it the “visiting card” of an educational institution? How to choose material for publication? We will try to find answers to these questions, to prove the relevance of this area.
Where does school life begin?
In order for the guys to be interested in communicating, being in the walls of their own school, they try to organize their "printing houses". The main assistants in this intellectual activity for high school students are teachers of the Russian language and literature. It is they who, at the very beginning of their work as a journalist, can offer children topics for a school newspaper.
We come up with the name
“As you call a ship, it will sail.” This expression can be applied in our case. Therefore, it is so important that the name of the school newspaper is bright and memorable, attracts the attention of both children and school teachers. For example, such an interesting name as “School Boom” will be relevant, vibrant, original. A newspaper with such a big name will want to not only see, but also read carefully. I do not like? In this case, you can come up with a different name for the school newspaper, for example, "I'm a journalist!" The choice depends on the personal preferences of the children, the orientation of the educational institution, as well as on the creative imagination of the beginner “sharks of the pen”.
Theme of work
Is the name of the school newspaper coined? In this case, you can safely proceed to thinking through its layout. Previously, schoolchildren had to manually print basic materials on sheets of whatman paper, spending a huge amount of free time on it, but now the procedure has been greatly simplified. It is enough to choose your favorite computer program, choose the appropriate design option, font size and option, and you can proceed with the procedure for recruiting the next school graduation. If you wish, you can not only use some texts, but also supplement them with illustrations, photographs, drawings. Of course, small crosswords, psychological tests will be interesting for students and teachers.
Not only the name of the school newspaper, examples of which we cited above, but its content is important. We offer some options for directions that can be considered in separate issues. If you plan a special issue for the professional holiday of teachers, in this case, you can come up with material in the form of interviews with individual teachers. Among the questions asked by him, special attention can be paid to the choice of a profession, as well as satisfaction with one's work.
In order to make the newspaper not too serious in content, the material is “diluted” with verses written by schoolchildren for their teachers. The New Year’s number is surely supplemented with bright and unusual wishes, a comic horoscope of compatibility between teachers and schoolchildren, New Year's puzzles. If you wish, you can even come up with a quiz, the winners of which can be both teachers and children. The award ceremony can be held on the New Year tree, using the newspaper as a real source of information.
Conclusion
Any educational institution in which there are creative and active schoolchildren tries to create their own newspaper. In some comprehensive schools, all the initiative comes from high school students, they themselves come up with the name, layout of the newspaper, its content. In other schools, a separate teacher is appointed as the director to direct the newspaper. He selects a team of high school students, teaches them the basics of journalism, controls the work. Whatever version of creating the school press was chosen, in any case, the newspaper helps to monitor sports and intellectual events taking place in the school, make announcements of events, and talk about serious and necessary moments.