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Here are the last of our reports, we hope you have enjoyed being kept up to date with the goings on in Oakfield.
Sophie's Report
Joe's Report
Erin's Report
Niamh and Caitlin's Report
Adam and Edward's Report:
Sam's Report
Hannah R's Report
Connor's Report
All of journalism club would like to say a big thankyou to everyone at the CLC.
This week have been using the Digital Movie Makers to present our own news broadcasts.
We hope you enjoy watching them.
Hannah's News
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Michael's News
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Hannah is the comic strip artist along with me. We work together and really enjoy journalism. We do many articles and design comic strips for our school newspaper. She is a lively member of journalism and everyone really enjoys having her in the club. We work really well together and make a good team. Hannah has enthusiasm with everything we do in journalism. She is a good member of our team. By Molly
Molly is the comic strip artist and so am I. We work together and have loads of fun. We really enjoy creating stories. Last year we designed a comic strip to do with Super Santa as a Christmas special. Molly is a very talented friend and is very clever. We also like to have a laugh from time to time. We all think she is great and I enjoy having her here with me at Journalism club. Molly is a truly great character. By Hannah
Erin is the fashionista of the journalism team she works along-side me as we do our fashion and horoscopes article, she is working hard on all the winter fashions. By Sophie
Sophie's job is to do the horoscopes, which will be coming shortly. She is a libra, like Mrs McCormack. She works hard on her articles and does a good job. By Erin
Hannah is our food and recipes editor, she is always enthusiastic and tries hard.
Here are pictures of our dedicated team of journalists, what their role is in the newspaper and what they think of our journalism club.
This is Niamh she is the editor of girls music. She always tries her best and never gives up no matter what she does. By Caitlin
Michael is a funny character in journalism club, his job is to make up jokes and quizzes to put on the website. He usually comes up with very funny ones, some of his own and some out of joke books. By Joe
Joe is a very kind boy at journalism club, his job is to make jokes and quizzes along with me for the website. He always tries his hardest and is a very fun friend!!!! By Michael
Sam is our mathematics genius, hence the reason he is our budget manager. He also helps with articles such as Oakfield’s 40th anniversary by writing about the 1960s. He is good on the computer and could beat a calculator at addition. Without a budget manager like him we would be lost. By Connor
This is Caitlin and she is our photographer for the Oakey news. Caitlin likes articles about animals and is good at writing about them too. It is her first time in Journalism club and she is enjoying it a lot. Caitlin likes to use Audacity and the cameras when she comes to the club. If you take a look on the school website you will find an Audacity radio news article and a written article belonging to her. By Niamh
Everyone in the club works extremely hard on reporting the news from our school in the form of written articles or radio news.
Coming soon will be video news about Years 3-6 - watch this space!
Its time to get spooky as Oakfield celebrates Halloween once more. No doubt there will be plenty of kids around the world dressing up and haunting the night on Wednesday the 31st of October. Children will obviously be stuffing their faces as they make their way home after an hour or two. Halloween was originally called Hallows Eve, named by the Celts, who celebrated the ghouls and ghosts coming out for one night. The Christians disliked this so composed a day called All Saints Day. This got rid of all the bad spirits. What will you go dressed up as for trick or treating for Halloween? There will be devils and vampires, witches and cats, pirates and grim reapers, everything you can imagine. So you better get carving those pumpkins and putting on your costumes as the big day comes to a close. Happy Halloween!!!
By Niamh Ryle, 6M
Halloween, A lot of people take part in it but I would hazard a guess that only half of those people know what it’s actually about. Halloween started in the Celtic times and was thought to be first celebrated by the Irish. Halloween is the night before all saints day and it is thought to be a time for evil spirits to play and spread discontent before good sweeps them away, hence the mad axemurderes running around at night(just children don’t worry readers). The fact that children knock on doors originated from evil spirits who would take an offering from a doorstep and if they found nothing they would lay misfortune on that family, hence the words, trick or treat.
By Edward Smith
Halloween is here…. SPOOOKY!!
You better not have an appointment for the dentist on the 1st of November, they will be horrified to see your teeth. Yes it is sweet time, munching and chomping on tons of sweets. If you don’t have a sweet tooth beware, there is no brussel sprouts for breakfast, lunch and dinner it’s chocolate and sweets.[If you’re lucky]
Anyway the real meaning for Halloween is that it is the only day when the spirits rise or… THE DEAD COME BACK TO EARTH AAARRGGHH!!.
The truth scares a lot of people, but not a lot of us know the real reason for it.
Halloween really started off in the Celtic times… way back then. It wasn’t trick or treating though, they ate soul cakes to pray for wealthy relatives. So it was passed on through future generations, when it got to the modern Americans or Christians they re-named it Halloween originally it had been called hallows eve. They made up trick or treating but now not a lot of people do tricks because we usually have bowls of sweets at our doors.
So that is the fun part of Halloween and the real meaning of it.
Take care on Halloween and remember only knock on the doors of people you know.
By Joe Donnohue 5P/T
Here is Hannah Roe reporting on the National Anti-Bullying Campaign.
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Here is Hannah Robinson reporting on One World Week in 5P/T
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This team is like a living body, everyone has their parts. Obviously this body isn't operating on all cylinders as some of us are missing in this photo because of illness or an untimley visit to the Baltic. Next time we will update the photo to show the whole team. Edward Smith, Editor.
Hello this is Edward Smith talking about One World Week!
This is the line up of this year’s One World Week.
3T- Africa
3S- Mexico
4R- Brazil
4DR- Australia
5B- China
5PT- Native America
6M- Spain
6G- France
Thank you, we hope you enjoy the week.
One World Week
One world week is one academic week of the year when each class in the school will learn about a different country. This year 6M are learning about Spain, 6G are learning about France, 5B are learning about China, 5P/T are learning about Native America, 4R are studying Brazil, 4D/R are studying Australia, 3S about Mexico and last but not least, 3T about Africa.
Now let’s tell you more about your children will be learning about their countries, their food, their clothes and their living style.
By Samuel Wadey.
Adam reporting on 6M, Spain.
Michael reporting on 5B, China.
Niamh's Girl's Music:
Connor's Boy's Music:
Toby's Sporty News.
Molly's 'Bearly Alive'.
Here's some jokes (WARNING: be careful they're side splitters!) by Joe Donnohue.
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Have a listen to some of our radio news articles.
Here is our introduction by Edward Smith
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Jeans for Genes by Caitlin Taylor
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I think that journalism club has been one of my favourite clubs throughout my years at Oakfield Junior School because you all get the chance to be as equally involved as each other. You also get a chance to be recongnised throughout the whole school and you also help raise a lot of money for Just For Kids, a Metro Radio charity. By Sam Wadey 6G.
Journalism club is really fun you get to use all different kinds of software packages. It's great!by Sophie Dodds 5B.
Journalism club had their first meeting today at Gateshead CLC. They discussed the various roles in journalism and had a go at collecting news from a variety of sources, to prepare for their first live news bulletins. Here's their thoughts and feelings on their first meeting:
Journalism is very fun and I am glad it is at the CLC- we can get a lot more programs there and they are good for our newspaper.
Niamh Ryle 6M
Journalism club is fantastic! And it is very fun, I really enjoy it.
Hannah Robinson 5P/T
Journalism club is really fun because of all the different progams you work on and school finishes at 2:50 yippee!!!
Michael Iveson 5B
Journalism club is the best club ever! You get to leave school early it's mint!
Joe Donnohue 5P/T
A huge thank you to the CLC staff for letting us use their facilities.