New paper launched in Laleham

The school dished out its first edition of the 'Laleham School Times' on Tuesday April 21 after school, which saw parents and locals enter the building to purchase it.

Headmistress Shirley Lunn said: "We are hoping the newspaper will encourage the children to write more, encourage them to be creative and to increase their understanding of how things work. We are hoping it will help them choose with their career choices in later life."

The newspaper has been in production for only six weeks, and was the brainchild of a number of pupils in a school council meeting.

The editorial team of 17 were only allowed to carry on unless they got help from their parents, so Lee-Anne Looker, whose sons Matthew,11, and Richard, 9, attend the school, donated £100 from her headhunting business PHP and they started.

Miss Lunn said: "Nearly all the work was submitted by the children, and includes school news, voxpops where the children ask other pupils what they think of a certain issue, recipes, poems, and history pieces."

The school are hoping to sell enough of the papers to make a profit and fund a termly edition, pushing to a bi-termly paper if all goes well.

Local advertisers have also been included, paying money which will be used to fund the £350 printing costs.

Copies can be purchased from the school.