Shine news

We hope you enjoyed last week’s Shine ‘Ask the Expert’ video – and the project continues this week with a really fascinating insight into the life of a daily newspaper.

The Shine School Media Awards winner of ‘Best Feature Article’ in 2018 George Thornicroft interviews Liz Hunt, Assistant Editor (Features & Comment) of the Daily Mail, about feature writing.

I hope you enjoyed listening to the chat between Rosie and Alan in the first of our ‘Ask the Expert’ series, and found some useful tips on how to set up and run a student publication if you have not already done so.

This week we are offering you a conversation between two students: George Thornicroft who won Shine Best Feature in 2018 at the impressive age of 13, for his piece ‘Transgender and Proud’, and Ava Harding from Ecclesbourne School in Derbyshire who is asking him about the advantages of working on a school magazine, and how the Shine competition affected his life.

Last time I announced the coming launch of a suite of videos covering all aspects of the competition categories. The first one we are offering you is between Rosie Birks, Teacher of English and Head of House at The Ecclesbourne School, who is new to Shine and wants to set up a student magazine, and Alan Williams, Design & Technology Teacher and Publications Manager at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, who is an old hand and offers much sage advice on how to go about it.

Shine Chair Alison Strachan looks forward to next summer – and all being together again for our 2021 awards.

The Shine School Media Awards is a scheme that rewards creativity, planning and resourcefulness.

Every summer we give out some amazing prizes to our winning students – find out more.

Great news: you want to get involved and create a Shine project for 2021.

Now, we tell you how to get started…