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 secondary 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. Our exhibition and teaching areas are accessible to wheelchair users and the mobility impaired.
Make a newspaper
Key stage 3, 4 & 5. Free of charge: Students will report the news as it happens. They will encounter the real-life experience of making a newspaper. They will research, write and edit news stories, create headlines and select and caption pictures. They will learn how editorial decisions are reached, and how the news is made.
Editorial teams
Key stage 4 & 5. Free of charge: Maximum of 16 pupils. Students will work in groups to research, write and produce a four page newspaper. In the morning they will be home, foreign, features and sports reporters and in the afternoon, edit the paper.
New - Environment in the news
Key stage 3&4: Students will create a front page of a newspaper by researching and reporting the latest environment news. Areas covered will include global warming, pollution, waste and recycling, transport, energy and conservation.
Digital workshops
Key stage 3&4: The education centre is working on news video and podcasting workshops - more details will follow.
To see our piloting activities in podcasting see here
The following workshops will be available during designated weeks:
Women and the vote
Key stage 3, 4 & 5. Free of charge: A newsroom simulation. Suitable as introduction to the topic. Students will take on the role of reporters in June 1913, researching, writing and editing news about the suffrage issue from different perspectives. Dramatic incoming news from a sports reporter at the Epsom Derby will affect the stories they produce and the nature of their front page.
Civil Rights in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s
Key stage 3, 4 & 5. Free of charge: Students will access contemporary news reports relating to civil rights and race relations in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s. The reports will cover a wide range of events, developments and key legislation of the period. Students will create their own newspaper front page depicting this turbulent era.
Science in the News
Key stage 3, 4 & 5. Free of charge: Students will create the front page of a science paper by researching and reporting the latest news of the science world. Areas covered will include medicine, technology, space, inventions and nature, as well as news of prominent scientific figures.
Tours and talks
For students taking examination courses, the education department can arrange a tour of the current exhibition and a question and answer session with a member of the Guardian or The Observer staff. Please contact the education department to discuss how this could complement your groups' studies.
Online booking form
Programme for primary schools
Activities for Further and Higher Education groups
For any other information or enquiries please email educationcentre@guardian.co.uk
