From the views generated by my previous article, I discovered many people (I guess teachers) are curious about secondary school press club. Thus, they search this online daily. Consequently, I decided to share a more beneficial post on this.

11 years ago, I joined my secondary school press club. That was a decision that would influence me a lot. We were just like any other high school students, but as a teacher now, I agree we did awesome things.

Basically, our activities were student-centred, and some of those beautiful activities includes:

1. Weekly news report:

These were some paragraphs from notable newspapers read in front of the assembly by two students on a chosen day of a week, then it used to be Wednesdays. My school was a boarding school, and mobile phones were contraband. But thanks to the press, the students were as updated as any other citizen. We would make orders for newspaper every week, extract basic and relevant items to draft our “national news”. Then, the “local news” were reports of news worthy activities and policies in school. We would start with “Headlines for this week are….”.

2. Press board (wall-gazette)

This was a glass covered board on which we attached news materials and interesting short articles. Continue reading “Press club in my secondary school (Nostalgia)” →