PACKAGING

SCHOOL PAPER
RICKY V. TID
School Paper Adviser, Ang Pithaya
rhikken2@gmail.com/ricky.tid@deped.gov.
ph
09106709514
What is your idea of a quality school
paper?

Being 10 is the highest and 1 is the

lowest, how are you going to assess
your school paper? Why?
A School Paper Should…

⮚Exhibit balance in terms of content.

⮚Use facts from different sources.

⮚Cite sources to bolster credibility

⮚Apply the principles of basic journalism

⮚Provide balance of light and serious topics

A School Paper Should…

⮚Arrange stories in decreasing importance

⮚Use clear and properly cropped and captioned
photos, graphics
⮚Observe proper grammar and style
⮚Observe principles of basic journalism and
ethics
 NEWS SECTION
The news section shall consist of at least three (3) pages

The content and scope of the news stories should include the
balance coverage of international, national, regional,
community and school-based news.

The content of the section may include straight or spot news,

advance/follow-up report, news bits, news feature, news
analysis, in-depth news/investigative news and survey news.
NEWS SECTION
⮚An event that possibly happened
a day or two before your paper hits
the press or printing machine

⮚Inverted pyramid structure

⮚Question: Do you have

opportunities for news stories in
your school paper?
 News Page Article Ideas

⮚Teachers’/students’ satisfaction levels on the

various senior high school tracks
⮚School principal’s innovation in administration
and how the school community perceives them
⮚How an outreach program has changed the
lives of the beneficiaries
⮚Interview on parents’ assessment of the SHS
curriculum (survey)
 News Page Article Ideas

⮚Most challenging subjects, but highlight needed

intervention
⮚Most useful subjects based on alumni’s
perception
⮚Differing opinions on certain policies like
points from extracurricular activities not used in
academic awards
⮚Survey on how much allowance students get
from their parents.
 News Page Article Ideas

⮚Most popular website students use for

academic purposes
⮚Teachers’ insights into certain Deped policies
especially on those publicly pronounced by the
DepEd secretary
⮚Progressive articles like putting up of schools,
building of bridges, fences and other facilities
that have direct impact on the school community
 News Page Article Ideas

⮚Community ordinances that have direct effect

on the school
⮚Partnership with the outside community
⮚Nutritional status of students
⮚Faculty profile (in terms of academic degree) –
relate this to education quality
 News Page Article Ideas
⮚Survey article on student’s on student’s
course preference
⮚Parents’ manner of disciplining their
children or rules over internet use/online
games
⮚Average sleeping hours of student on
weekdays
⮚Survey on preferences in music, food,
movies, sports, but highlighting what brings
about such preferences
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 FEATURES SECTION
The feature section should have at least three (3) pages

The feature articles should display unique and creative

presentation of topics.

Logical organization and progression of ideas, writers’ facility

of the language and proper citations/attributions of sources.
FEATURES
SECTION
⮚Offers you more creativity –
allows you to write an engaging
lead rather than bog you down
with a straitlaced news sentence.
⮚ Can comprise long form
storytelling/ student profiles/
staff profiles/ an ongoing issue
in the school.

⮚ Other forms include opinion

writing- more of writing a
critical argument.
PROFILES

Beyond such
factual basics,
profiles look at
who and what
influenced the
person, their ideas,
and their choice of
vocation or
profession
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 NEWS FEATURE

The news feature focuses on a topic of interest in

the news.

News features often cover the same subjects as

deadline hard-news stories, but do so in greater
depth and detail.
News Features
 Sample Topics

✔ Grades as intelligence determiners

✔ Students’ IQ checked against their EQ

✔ Internet websites students refer to for

academic purposes
 INFORMATIVE FEATURE
An informative feature seeks to inform the reader,
more likely to deliver details about relevant issues.
Secondary emphasis is to entertain.

Sample Articles:
1. A look into the various SHS track
2. Making curriculums student-centered
3. The features of a new school building or science
laboratory
Informative Features
Informative Features
 HOW-TO FEATURE

A “how-to” feature article focuses on the process of

how things came about. This might be a product,
services or activity.
How-to Features
How-to Features
 How-to Features

1. How to stay healthy in an urban setting

2. How to manage time amid a heavy school workload.
3. How to give advice to a distraught friend.
4. How to come up with remarkable projects without
spending too much/using recyclables/reusables
5. How to overcome shyness
6. How to make friends in the higher grades
7. How to answer tests/ do well in tests
 TREND FEATURE
Trend stories take the pulse of the culture at the
moment, looking at what's new, fresh and exciting. The
emphasis in trend stories is usually on light, quick, easy-
to-read pieces that capture the spirit of whatever new
trend is being discussed.

1. Popular culture (music and movies)

2. Emojis and how they may conceal true emotions
3. Creatively coined words (how they affect our
sensibilities
Trend Features
 LIVE-INS
The live-in is an in-depth, often magazine-length article
that paints a picture of a particular place and the people
who work or live there. Live-ins have been done on
homeless shelters, emergency rooms, battlefield
encampments, cancer hospices, public schools and police
precincts, among other locales. The idea is to give readers a
look at a place they probably wouldn't normally encounter.
Live-in
Live-in
 Live-in

Sample Articles

1. A child cigarette vendor in a busy street

2. A visit to a charitable institution (home for the
aged, boys town)—how residents live their
lives, best written in first person
3. Immersion activities (for example, in a fishing
village)
EDITORIAL SECTION
The editorial section should
have at least two (2) pages
and should include the
following: main editorial,
editorial cartoon, columns,
letters to the editor and
commentaries. Opinion
polls or surveys may be
included, but are not
required.
 EDITORIAL SECTION
The treatment of the issues must demonstrate fair
and balanced presentation of both sides of each
issue tackled, clear moral purpose, logical
reasoning, and proper citations/attributions of
sources.

Topics found in the section should tackle various

international, national or local issues that may
directly or indirectly affect the school or the
community the school serves.
 Editorial Page

⮚ Infographics on students’ opinion on a current

issue

⮚ Letter to the editor (school issue)

⮚ Columns (local and national issues)

⮚ Editorial

⮚ Other opinion essays

 Editorial Page
⮚ Editorials must be youth-oriented and localized
(must always imply how an issue will have impact
on the students.

⮚ Columns must be in the first-person singular and

writer’s insights must be based on facts.

⮚ Letter to the editor must be on a school or

community issue and must come with a response
 Editorial Page
⮚ To add flare to this usually serious page, include
infographics, liftout quotes, and pictures (for other
critical essays).

⮚ Cartoon and main editorial may not be on the same

topic.

⮚ Letter to the editor must be on a school or community

issue and must come with a response

⮚ Attribute sources.
 Editorial Page
⮚ Violence against children
⮚ AIDS cases among teenagers
⮚ The quest for good examples
⮚ Valuing-focused articles (honesty, respect,
diligence)
⮚ Issues pertaining to discipline and behavior in the
classroom
⮚ Getting into sports and extra-curriculars and their
effect on academics
 Editorial Page

⮚ Petty issues such as cheating, cursing, wasting

food, not observing clean-as-you-go policy,
respect for school/other people’s property

⮚ Exploratory issues
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S & T SECTION

The Science & Technology Section

should have at least two (2) pages
and should include
environmental, scientific,
technological, and innovative
stories written in news, feature, or
scientific commentary style.
 S & T SECTION
This should also include they economic impact of
Science & Technology on the lives of the Filipinos.

The articles should be well-researched and should

observe proper citation of sources, pictures and
graphics.
Science Feature
Class Experiment
Science Research
Environment
Technology
Health
SPORTS SECTION
The sports section shall
consist of at least two (2)
pages.
The content and scope of
the sports stories should
include a balanced
coverage/scope of
international, national,
regional, community and
school-based sports news
stories.
 SPORTS SECTION

The content of the section may include straight or

spot news, advance, follow-up report; news bits;
news feature/news analysis; in-depth news, survey
news, features and editorial column concerning or
pertaining to sports.

✔ Sports News
✔ Sports Features
✔ Sports Editorial
✔ Sports Column
 Sports News

1. In- and off-campus sports game

2. Survey article on favorite sports personality
3. Nat’l & Int’l sports events
4. Best-player news
5. Sports for a cause
 Sports Editorial/Column

1. Teachers’ sports activity (fitness program)

2. Infographic on students’ sports activity (to be
developed into an article)
3. Student athletes and their academic
performance
 Sports News

1. Underdogs in the varsity teams

2. Best-player (or coach) feature
3. Students’ after-class sports activities
4. Features on recently founded sports
5. Traditional games
6. Sports Analysis
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What is your idea of a quality school
paper?

Being 10 is the highest and 1 is the

lowest, how are you going to assess
your school paper? Why?
 APPLICATION
Think at least 2 possible topics in news,
editorial/column, features and science you plan to include
in the next issue of your school paper. Remember that it
should be localized and has a direct impact to your
students, teachers and the community.

News Editorial Feature Science

 REFERENCES
Jerry M. Noveno
Former Adviser, The Bicol Scholar
Official Publication of Philippine Science High School

The Junior Agnesian

St. Agnes Academy

The Beacon
Bote Integrated School

Ang Hibla
Tubli National High School

Ang Pithaya
Tinago Elementary School

The Synchronizer
Catanduanes National High School

Ang Limelight
Carmona National High School