high school – Ifeoluwa Siddiq Oyelami

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:

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….”.

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)” →

This is an excerpt of a speech I gave at St. Mary College Suleja during a sensitization programme of the NYSC Suleja local govt. Mass literacy club. You may consider one or two points as an advice to your students or brethren.

5 things to do in Secondary School

As contained in the national policy of education (2004); secondary education shall raise a generation of people who can think for themselves, respect views and feelings of others, respect the dignity of labour and live as good citizens.

Actualization of these goal of secondary education is indeed a no-no for many secondary school leavers whether in the urban or rural -set of dependent, playful and lazy teens. But… I got some tips you may use in beating this otherwise challenging task and maybe blaze a trail in some endeavours too.

Here they are:

Continue reading “5 things to do in Secondary School” →