P5-7 were fortunate on Friday to receive a visit from a local news reporter, Seonaid MacKenzie, BBC News. Some of you may recognise Seonaid from the television or radio as he has been involved in producing reports for the BBC, BBC Alba and even Sky News for many years. He taught us all about what makes a story news worthy, how he became a journalist, the frustrations and fun of editing and working to deadlines, how to angle the camera and much more!! The workshop was great fun and linked very well with our learning within our Literacy and English Curriculum and also with the development of children’s Skills for Learning, Skills for Life and Skills for Work. We even got a look at Seonaidh’s very impressive (and very expensive) filming equipment!!
As always, our visitor was very impressed with the calm and focused atmosphere in our P5 to 7 classroom and the respectful way in which all of our pupils engaged with the workshop.
The pupils are currently working on creating their own news stories in both print and video format and we look forward to sharing more of these with you soon.
We are very grateful to Miss Fraser for organising this fantastic opportunity and to our colleague Aileen MacLennan in the Argyll and Bute Council Comms Team for putting Miss Fraser in contact with Seonaid. Moran Taing!
