The Irish News Young News Readers Media Project

13th Jun 2023

Primary 5 & 6 have really enjoyed participating in the Young News Readers Literacy Project between March and May this year. This is a fantastic Literacy project aimed at children aged 8-12. The pupils loved taking part in the lessons each week and participating in the weekly tasks.

Some of the activities and tasks we took part in:

Learning about how a newspaper works
Learning about trusted news sources like The Irish News versus “fake news”
Interviewing family members or friends who have had a positive influence on our lives
Learning to use newspaper terminology like by-line, caption, etc.
Creating our own captions for photographs
Making Wellbeing Wishes by coming up with one thing we can do each day to improve wellbeing
Writing our own news articles
Participating in Earth Day activities by making pledges to help protect our planet
Seeing the power of positive thinking by creating compliments
Designing a newspaper advertisement for our school
Increasing self-esteem by creating personal fact word clouds

We hope that our participation in the projects ahs helped to develop and grow awareness in our pupils of the important tant role newspapers can play in our lives.

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