School Newsletter

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Citizenship: Coursework A

School Newsletter

During Year 10, I was part of the school newsletter team which consisted of around 6 students writing articles for the termly school newsletter, ‘News In Brief’. Each student was assigned a specific area of school life to focus on and write articles about. Areas of school life included: school community, sports, entertainment, school council etc. I was assigned to research and write about the ‘school community’ around our school. The team was organised by one our teachers, Mrs Harrison, and was headed by two students in year 11, who edited the page of the newsletter. Our team met roughly twice each term to discuss the type of articles we were going to write about, and once we had agreed that the articles were appropriate we went out to research the stories and collect images/photographs/quotes/comments. We were given a deadline as to when we had to submit the articles to the editors, and once our stories had been written, we then sent them to the editors via email who would comment, edit and then submit to be published in the newsletter.

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        Throughout the year, I wrote three articles about recent events and issues affecting our school community. An issue I researched was the school’s proposal to the council to move to another location in West Ealing. The reason for choosing this particular story was that I felt that hardly any of the students I talked to were aware of this failed attempt to relocate the school. I then asked a number of students if they felt that it was necessary to move the school to a single-site location because of the poor quality facilities we had. I took quotes, and included ...

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