Our Newsroom
Learn more about our junior curriculum Newsroom class and read some of the student work being created.
Our Newsroom class recently completed a Research Article. This assessment required students to select a topic or issue that was being discussed in the media. These topics were all related to a section you would see in a newspaper or on a news site. For example, health, politics, global issues, local stories and many more. The outcomes were amazing, and we wanted to share two pieces of student work with you.
What is Newsroom?
In Newsroom students learn about what the media and news is, how it works and how it affects us, influences us, and what we can do to become more critical in the way we consume it.
In this class students are learning about a wide variety of media concepts and developing the skills that will support a career in news media, advertising media or social media.
Media representations have a strong influence on how young people see themselves and how they imagine their future. As a school our job is to equip students with critical media literacy, an essential skill in the digital age. And this is why we have the new junior curriculum course Newsroom. The learning that occurs in our lessons enables students to understand the workings of our immediate world, and their place within it.
Alice Wilson, Newsroom Teacher