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The four-day Pattambi sub-district schoolhouse arts festival wrapped up connected Thursday astatine Government Vocational Higher Secondary School, Koppam. But what stole the amusement was a laboratory paper produced by journalism students of Government Janatha Higher Secondary School, Naduvattam.
Over the festival’s 3 main days, they printed quality and photos of the events, giving the solemnisation a unique, real-time chronicling that acceptable it isolated from different sub-district events successful the State.
Janatha school’s higher secondary journalism students person present produced the newspaper, Janatha Journal, for 5 consecutive years astatine the sub-district arts festival.
The paper successful tabloid format deed the festival grounds earlier noon each day, packed with the day’s headlines and colour photos. One 1000 copies were handed out, giving the students, teachers and parents alike an engaging work and a lasting souvenir of the event.
The students covered the expenses done advertisements. They published their articles successful some English and Malayalam. All reporting and editing were carried retired by the students nether journalism teacher Byju K.R.’s supervision. “It was a hand-on learning acquisition for the students,” said Mr. Byju.
Since its motorboat astatine the 2019 sub-district arts festival astatine Pattambi, Janatha Journal has gone from spot to strength. After a two-year hiatus due to the fact that of COVID-19, the paper returned successful 2022 astatine Naduvattam, past successful 2023 astatine Chundambatta and successful 2024 astatine Edappalam.
“About 2 twelve students helped nutrient the newspaper,” said Mr. Byju. Apart from covering the sub-district arts festival, Janata Journal also chronicles each schoolhouse events and releases them arsenic an e-paper.
The Janatha pupil inaugural has earned the people’s praise, particularly from General Education Minister V. Sivankutty.
Besides the people edition, the Janata Journal squad gathers footage for their YouTube transmission and keeps progressive their Facebook and Instagram pages. Former journalism students of the schoolhouse excessively travel down to assistance their juniors during the arts festival.
School Principal S. Jude Louis is the main exertion and T. Krishna the pupil editor. The work is brought retired nether the banner of the school’s Media Club with method enactment from machine subject teacher K. Sreekanth.
