School newspaper: initial ideas

I have always had a passion for writing, which pushed me towards my current greatest ambition of becoming a journalist. Despite the uncertainty I still have concerning what sort of mass media will I be involving myself in, I have always enjoyed producing, reading and editing articles. This very interest has given me the idea of creating a school newspaper; I approached a fellow writer in my class, Cveta, who gladly agreed to help me with this project. Together we came up with a list of ideas which could be implemented in the future paper:

List of ideas

We will certainly be reporting on school news in order to keep the students updated on all sorts of activities that are going on. Considering all of the departments present within our school, we concluded that we could ask the English and art teachers to present to us a few select pieces of work which could then be displayed in a report. We also decided to take into account the interest that most pupils have in various sports, hence the different clubs that are currently open: we figured that having news on the progression of both football and basketball club would attract greater attention to our work. Finally, we agreed to write about anything attractive going on in Moscow so that our students would be informed on any events that they could attend and entertainments they could take part in.

Albeit we don't even have a newspaper yet, we already began thinking ahead to any other possible aspects that we could include in it: we might add something interactive to the experience of reading by introducing either a raffle or a contest of some sort, where people would get prized for taking the first three places. We could add voting polls on questions concerning the arrangement of the school and the extra-curricular activities that it offers so that students could have a greater part to play in the life of the institution. Apart from just reporting local news, we could go international by publicising events of global importance: that would also allow us to be more open-minded and caring as we would be spreading awareness of news not just from one country, and we could bring up issues of great importance throughout our planet.

In conclusion, I would like to say that we have produced what seems to be a promising plan, and hopefully we will be able to implement it into action successfully. For the time being, we will focus on the initial ideas so that they will be in order before we'll move onto the other possible additions to the paper; we will be aiming to produce our first issue by the end of October break, on the 28th. Currently we are unsure of how often we will be distributing the newspaper, however we will most likely adopt the idea of delivering one every other week, in order to allow more potentially engaging material to accumulate and to give ourselves more time to organise everything in an orderly and appealing manner. Despite the great planning, we failed to ask the teachers who might be interested in this project (for example the English department educators), if they would like to help us out, therefore next time we should ensure that all parties would be willing to participate in a given activity prior to actually drawing up a plan of it.