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Newtown scholars launch newspaper 15.06.10

A GROUP of enthusiastic young students from Scoil Cholmcille in Newtowncunningham took their first steps into the world of publishing yesterday when they launched the school’s first ever school newspaper.
Students from Ms Mulligan’s sixth class had worked on the full-colour 20-page newspaper - Scoil Cholmcille Newtown News (SCNN) over the past number of weeks with well known journalist, Liam Porter.
Newspaper editor Leah Smith explained that every student in the class was given a specific job, as the classroom was transformed into a real newspaper office.
“We had reporters, photographers, designers, advertising salespeople and a production manager, not to mention a full team producing comics for the paper as well,” Leah explained.
Deputy editor Niamh McCrossan told those attending the launch yesterday that, despite the hard work, everybody in the class really enjoyed the experience.

Students from sixth class at Scoil Cholmcille, Newtowncunningham, pictured looking over their school newspaper with teacher Ms Mulligan.

Indeed all of the various departments from the paper took the opportunity to explain to those present about their jobs in the paper, while the visiting guests also were shown a slideshow of some of the photographs taken throughout the project.
School principal James Doherty praised the children for their wonderful work and thanked Ms Mulligan who initially come up with the idea to ensure the children had the opportunity of this experience.
Mr Doherty also thanked the School Completion Programme and those who had advertised in the paper for helping cover the costs of the project. He also thanked Liam Porter for his expertise in facilitating the project.
Liam who has worked with a number of schools on similar projects over the past few months, was full of praise for the “enthusiasm and hard work“ shown by the Scoil Cholmcille students throughout the project.
“It was a real pleasure to come in to work with the class because from the very first day, they embraced this project with such enthusiasm and energy that it was always obvious that they would produce a great finished product.
“I think anybody who sees the paper will agree that for sixth class students to produce a paper and a series of comics of this calibre is amazing and it is something they can all be justifiably proud of.”
Those attending the launch were wowed by the product and unsurprisingly they sold like hot cakes.
If you would like to get a copy of the paper you can purchase one from the school for the very reasonable price of just €2.

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