Our paper contained national news, international news, politics and sport. It also included an editorial, where the editor writes his or her comments.

The articles kept changing all the time and many were cut out altogether. As a journalist, you have to be prepared to keep altering existing articles and to write new ones.

This aspect of working on a newspaper is hard work. It taught us a lot about being journalists.

Features

Our features page gave us scope to be amusing, clever or funny. In one feature we mixed photographs of the teachers' and boys' faces together and asked the readers to work out who was who.

If you want to improve your journalism skills, it's a good idea to watch the news, research facts and practise writing articles.

Developing these skills will help with essay writing in English and other subjects such as Religious Education.

We put in a lot of hard work and it paid off. We are really pleased with our newspaper!

Our big scoop was an article about former pupil David Carry who won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in a swimming event on the day our newspaper was published.

In addition to sport, our newspaper featured school-based and national news.

We also created a supplement which included fashion, music and games reviews.

Whole school

People from all years took responsibility for various aspects of the paper.

There were reporters, editors and people laying out the paper from each year. Students joined the team at the last minute to do various things.

It's quite spectacular when you think how many people helped produce the newspaper. For schoolchildren, it's an amazingly high standard.

Team-work

It's important to take part in something like this which involves team-work.

A whole range of different people pulled together and interacted. It turned out really well.

You get a really good buzz from doing something like this!