Today we celebrated a first for Penygawsi Primary School. We launched our very own digital school magazine called 'Shout Aloud.' We hope families and the wider community will support our project. If you would like to contribute to our school magazine then please speak to one of the editorial team by emailing our school.
The children - our editorial team, wrote and presented an assembly for the launch and did a great job of introducing it to the school.
Above are screen shots of our Shout Aloud web pages.
Our school magazine can be found at
The children have thoroughly enjoyed participating in this years Lead Creative School project. The funding from the Arts Council of Wales, Welsh Government and National Lottery has helped them to create, design and implement an innovative piece of work. The children involved in the project had the opportunity to develop their Literacy skills in a fun, interesting and cross curricular way. Shout Aloud magazine belongs to everyone in our school and all of our children can submit content, be involved and develop their own Literacy skills.
The ethos behind the Lead Creative School programme has also helped support the children to become risk takers with their learning and be ambitious in their thoughts. The children showed a growing importance of how being persistent and working collaboratively was an advantage in producing their platform.
The opportunity to research, present information differently via a website and multi media platforms such as animation and green screen film was fundamental in developing their literacy and digital literacy skills. They enjoyed it! From our project evaluation discussions they also realised that it doesn't matter how you decide to present information to the world, it needs a lot of thought, careful and exciting words and starts with the writing.
It has been exciting to work with Carl, our Creative Agent and Glen from Winding Snake and we would like to thank them both for their help and support. Mrs Udy, Mrs Farrell and I have enjoyed being part of the Lead Creative School team and the learning journey.
Well done to the editorial team who are so proud of what they have made for their friends, peers and our school. I think we should all 'shout aloud' and praise them for their huge success.
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| The Shout Aloud Editorial Team and Creators. |
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| Showing the Shout Aloud news desk vlog to the school. |
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| Carl, our creative agent speaking at our launch. |
Mrs James
Lead Creative School Coordinator, Leader of Digital Literacy & Creativity.
