Your pupil magazine can be used in a variety of ways, in order to meet the needs of your school. Whether you are aiming to celebrate your pupils’ writing, encourage writing for pleasure, or providing a real-life opportunity to write for purpose, your pupil magazine can be designed flexibly to achieve your goals.
Here are some ideas to provide a starting point for your pupil magazine.
Support Your English Lessons
As teachers, we know how it important it is to write for a real-life purpose. Watch your pupils’ engagement skyrocket when they realise their writing is live on the web, being read by thousands! At Pupil Magazines, we can help you to set up individual class pages on your site – so that every pupil gets a chance to have their work published for an audience.
An Intervention that Inspires
Are your pupils turned off by endless grammar and spelling tests and exercises? Looking for ways to boost demotivated and disinterested writers? Ignite their passion for writing through an intervention that has actual tangible outcomes. We all know that the strongest writers write more words, and the children who write the most words become the strongest writers – so break the cycle and encourage writing amongst your target children by giving them an opportunity to write for your pupil magazine!
Extra-Curricular Engagement in Writing
You might already have a team of budding journalists in your school. Let them flourish by giving them the reins of your pupil magazine, developing an ethos of ‘writing for pleasure’ in your school community. A perfect opportunity for pupils to take ownership and go ‘off curriculum’, picking the stories that they want to write, and telling them through their words.
Looking for something more bespoke? Get in touch and we can design to fit your personal specification.
What can we write about ?
Inspiration for content for your magazine is everywhere. Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Publish work written in class – giving children a chance to showcase their writing will motivate and inspire.
- Community engagement – want to let the world know how your school connects with the local community? Detail all of your community events, from Summer fetes to litter picking.
- Promotional articles – celebrate everything that your school does best: pupil achievements, sporting successes, fundraising updates – all of these can be showcased on your site.
- Pupil leadership – assign responsibility for parts of your online magazine to the leaders amongst your pupils, including your librarians, sports leaders and school councillors.
- Current affairs – address the SMSC aspect of your curriculum by offering children a chance to include their own current affairs articles on your pupil magazine.
How can we publicise our magazine?
Once your pupil magazine is up and running, you are free to share it with the world! Link to your pupil magazine from your website, to give an insight into all of your school’s achievements; publicise your site on social media, and make contact with real-life authors, educators and inspirational people; or use your pupil magazine as an alternative to a school newsletter, and email the link out to your parents each week.
And finally...
Presentation isn’t limited to writing. There is nothing stopping the children embedding a video of them presenting something…
Get in touch
If you have any questions about how you might implement this, how it works or how it would benefit your school, please do get in touch.