A Draperstown school has enjoyed a ‘behind the scenes’ peek at The Irish News after winning a competition as part of the 2023 Young News Readers Media project.
Pupils from St. Eoghan’s Primary School visited the newspaper’s new home in College Street, where they had the opportunity to meet the editor and explore the new state-of-the-art offices and Q Radio studio.
To finish off the day, pupils visited the award-winning Interpress printing facility, where they saw first-hand how an edition of the paper – read by 150,000 people every day – is printed and prepared for delivery to shops across Ireland.
Around 6,500 pupils from more than 130 schools took part in the Young News Readers scheme, a cross-curriculum literacy programme run by The Irish News each year.
Aiming to introduce a new generation of readers to the power of news, children from primary and post-primary schools received weekly school editions of the newspaper covering important topics and issues affecting young people.
Now in its sixth year, the project sponsored by Fujitsu, EY, Exploris NI and St Mary’s University College aims to help teachers empower pupils to access, understand, analyse and participate in the news.
As part of the eight-week programme, which provided special lesson plans to support literacy skills and learning, schools were asked to submit weekly tasks of the week ranging from positive quotes to interviews with a positive person in their life.
In the final week of the project, pupils were asked to note their highlights of the 2023 project for a chance to win a Media Day at the new Irish News offices.
The Primary Five and Six class of St Eoghan’s Primary School, Draperstown was judged as the winner because of their commitment and enthusiasm throughout the project.
Elsewhere, Year 8 students from Aquinas Diocesan Grammar School in Belfast have also pledged to make a positive environmental impact after winning an environmental and sustainability workshop courtesy of digital transformation company Fujitsu.
The green-themed workshop is to be delivered by Eco Schools and Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful.
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