Dubbo Christian School has shone a light on the importance of news with the introduction of its very own school newspaper, 'Little People With Big Ideas'.
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The first edition, written by year five extension English students, was handed out across classrooms and to parents on Thursday by the students who dressed up as paper boys for the special occasion.
Emily Poulter and Matthew Duke are among the schools 17 extension English students who contributed to the paper alongside chief editor, support and learning teacher Melanie Williams.
"I think it's important to write about current things that are happening so people can understand it better," Matthew said.
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"It's nice to have to write and to know lots of people will be reading it."
Emily, who was one of a few students who worked on her own, said she loves writing about things people wouldn't normally think about.
"I like being able to come up with new ideas. My favourite is persuasive writing."
Emily's first article was called 'Pink, pink and more pink', and was about her teacher's daughter and husband who had just had a baby.
Matthew said he loves creative writing the most, but his first article was on the school's new TAS block, an informative piece.
"It was good to let the high school (Dubbo Christian School) students know about it, a lot of them don't know much about what's happening with the primary students," he said.
"It was hard (writing the paper), we couldn't get in finished in class so we had to work on it in the library during lunch time," Matthew said.
Mrs Williams said initially the paper was only going to be a one-time thing, but they are now going to publish a paper once a term.
"We usually do things like this with our extension English classes, we do podcasts and competitions, but I wanted to do something different this time so I had to think outside of the box," Mrs Williams said.
Mrs Williams said it was a good opportunity for other kids to see news written from a kids perspective.
"It's also a good way to communicate with parents," she said.
"Due to COVID-19, parents aren't allowed to come into the school, so it helps to keep them engaged.
"We right about topics related to our school and they've been working on it for one hour each week over the course of five weeks."
Students from the stage two extension English class were also given the task of creating advertisements for a section of the paper, one of which was for the school's new cafe.
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