The Newsroom education team are now in the process of setting up a brand new Education Centre within the Guardian and Observer's new offices at Kings Place, Kings Cross. We will continue to offer our workshop programme to schools and colleges with improved facilities and IT in a brand new multimedia centre. We are planning to resume our programmes in late spring. We will contact schools and organizations about booking once we are up and running. If you have not previously registered your school/organization details and want us to keep you informed please complete the online booking form below.
Below is our current programme for primary schools.
All activities are designed to complement the teaching of the National Curriculum across a variety of subjects. We are keen to tailor our programme to suit your particular requirements. We welcome groups and individuals with special needs. The teaching areas are accessible to wheelchair users and the mobility impaired.
All primary school workshops are free of charge.
Make a newspaper
Year 5/6: Students will become reporters or editors. They will encounter the real-life experience of producing the front page of a newspaper - everything from writing and editing news stories to creating headlines, and selecting and captioning pictures. Pupils will work in pairs, to a deadline, to produce the news as it happens.
Popular culture since the 1950s
Year 5/6: Students will access news from the archive and information on British popular culture since 1950 and make a newspaper front page featuring stories from one decade: the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s or 1980s. Topics include music, fashion, art, film and sport.
The Victorians
Year 5/6: Students will research, write and produce their own Victorian front page using written and visual archive material and secondary sources. Their articles can be topic based (e.g. working conditions, lives of Victorian children, family life, entertainment) or focus on a certain point in Victoria's reign such as the Great Exhibition or the Queen's jubilee of 1887.
New - Katine
Year 5/6: In October 2007, the Guardian and Observer embarked on a three-year project to support development work carried out by Amref and Farm-Africa in Katine, a rural sub-county of north-east Uganda. This workshop will look involve creating the front page of a newspaper based on development, education, health, work, lifestyle and water and sanitation in Katine. Students will be able to compare life in Katine with a contrasting locality in the UK.
Online booking form
Programme for secondary schools
Activities for Further and Higher Education groups
For any other information or enquiries please email educationcentre@guardian.co.uk
