International Day bulletin

Since Cveta and I had arranged to run a school newspaper, we positioned ourselves as people who are greatly interested in writing and reporting to a greater audience than just our English teacher; for that very reason, I presume, we have been approached by the IBDP coordinator who asked us to produce a bulletin based upon the events of this year's International Day. The idea was to attach this bulletin to a letter which would be given out to all of the students, so that it would act as a pleasant reminder of the grandiose celebration and possibly an invitation to those students and parents who hadn't been able to attend this time to participate in the event the following year. 

In order to complete the task laid upon us, we divided our responsibilities: both of us contributed to writing the actual text of the document, however Cveta took over the layout of the future bulletin, whilst I provided her with some of the images I took on the occasion. We tried to balance the material that we had gathered by including interviews of different people (i.e. teachers, students and parents) to convey a more personal perspective, and also to make the information more reliable instead of everything just coming from our own experience. Ultimately, I think that we've managed to create a very colourful and appealing bulletin which is not only informative, but also entertaining to read.

The bulletin itself

In spite of the first draft looking great, we may be asked to amend a few aspects of it to increase its quality even further. We also realised that if we were to do something of this sort again, we should be more careful with our style of language: being able to compose in a very complex manner through the use of a wide range of vocabulary is neat, albeit we must consider our audience which does include relative young children as well as parents who may not be very familiar with the English language, therefore it is our duty to make the wording understandable enough for people of all levels, at the same time making it a pleasant and enjoyable read.