NAPIER SCHOOL'S NOVEL NEWSPAPER

Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 138, 17 September 1954, Page 7

NAPIER SCHOOL'S NOVEL NEWSPAPER

STARTED BY FORMER TAUPO HEADMASTER The "Taupo Times" extends its best wishes to an unusual newspaper which rolled off the "presses" in Napier early this month and which has been started by Mr S. G. Christensen, headmaster of Napier Central School, well remembered as a formen popular and respected headmaster of the Taupo School. Mr Christensen states that the object of the paper is to make writing socially purposeful and to quicken the children's interest. The fact that the children will have a widerj circle of readers should help to put them on their toes and give them an added urge to write, and make them feel that they fiave a common purpose.

Six-Page Paper There are six pages cyclostyled to f orm the paper. On the front page the production staff is listed. There are five editors and five subeditors. The editors are from the senior class Standard 4, and the sub-editors from Standard 1 to Standard 3. Two Standard 4 pupils look after the saies and accounts. There is alsol an editorial explanation of the production on the front pages. The pages of the paper are packed with news items about the school, stories and poems. And there are advertisements— two of them in the first issue. One pupil has set up business selling secondhand magazines and another is offering a reward for the finding of a pocket knife. The pupils" of the school are the reporters on this paper. They may all contribute to its pages. The paper was entirely edited

and produced by the pupils. Teachers could be called upon for advice but they took no actual part in the planning of the paper. And so it will be with the next edition, prob-

ably in September. Mr Christensen can feel proud of his pupils, the producers of Napier's newest and youngest "newspaper."