An Amazing Experience with ‘The Week Junior’

On Thursday 9th May 2019, Ciaran Sneddon from the well-known, ‘The Week Junior’, came into to Mount Stewart Junior School to address our Blog Team on how to write original, interesting and factual articles.

Two of our journalists gave Ciaran a tour of our school, then Year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to have an assembly all about the current news. After this, the team showed Ciaran how we work together to publish different articles for our Blog and then we were able to ask questions on how to improve our writing.

Ciaran gave us some top tips about ensuring that our articles are from reliable sources such as the BBC website to avoid bias and make sure it’s filled with trusted facts. He also suggested putting the most important information in the first few sentences to capture the reader’s attention. Not only that, Ciaran told us the importance of using our own words rather than copying from other websites.We all really enjoyed this experience and it will be one we will never forget.

Ciaran is welcome back anytime; he could even be part of the team (although we won’t pay him!)

The Mount Stewart Junior Blog Team