I made a class newspaper with my teenage students today and it was absolutely fab!
I gave them some sections of the paper, but you could do anything you wanted.
I had: Teacher interviews, Group leader interviews, City profile, things to do, excursion and activities, class profile.
You could make it more serious depending on the age and ability of the class.
I assigned two people to be the editors, they had to assign the pages to the other students and one person needed to be a photographer. I gave them a disposable camera and had it developed at lunchtime.
I’m going to bind the original copy to show to other classes as an exmaple, but I photocopied each student a copy to take home with them so they have a permanent reminder of their time here.
Maybe this would be a good creative project for your class to work on?
This is such a good idea! I did it last term with my students who are usually not very excited about class. In between the classes, I copied it and gave them to the students, and they seemed more impressed by the fact that I would do that than anything else I did all term!!
Thanks for sharing!
Hi there!
Thanks for stopping by to have a look. The kids loved it when I gave them their own individual copies. I think it’s great because it gets them using so many skills and they don’t really seem to view it as “work”. They were really enthusiastic about it and it paid off as they produced a great piece of work.
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