School based magazines

School based magazines are a way that a school can promote themselves to parents and students within their school community. It can also be used to promote the schools through the use of propaganda to persuade new parents and students to come and choose to attend their school, around the time when open evenings are taking place as schools are wanting to make them selves stand out from the other schools and attract more parents to their school.

There are a range of different school based magazines that can be created such as whole school ones such as ‘Pinch of Salt’ where they include different articles within it that are relate to the whole school such as performances, school trips and volunteering outside of school etc. Another example is a sixth form based magazine where they are focusing all of the content towards sixth form students, meaning that there will be bits of content that won’t be included in the whole school magazine as they aren’t relevant for everyone such as revision tips or when deadlines for certain subjects are. The final kind of school magazine is a parent based one, where there will be tips on how to support students through their exams, how to support them through times when they are choosing their options and how to help them succeed in the best that they can.

School magazines have a great educational value as they encourage students to think and write for the magazine. This allows them to develop their writing their skills and encourages their creativity when writing.

A school magazine’s main purposes are to provide advice and support for studnets both within sixth form, and students who may be feeling the pressure with the step up between year 9 and starting their GCSEs or the students who are coming up to taking their GCSEs in the summer. To show off the outstanding achievements that the students have achieved both insde and outside of school. To convince parents that this school is capable of providing thier child with the best eduction available within the local area and to provide information for the students who are choosing both GCSE and A Level options and how to choose the correct one for them so that when they open their results two years later they will be increadably proud of their success.

School Magazines are similar to most magazine conventions including music ones. There are just a few factors that make them more unique and suitable for the audience it is aimed at. Which is primarily the students, followed by the parents and carers of the students. For example school magazies are always going to be making school seem like a fun and exciting place so that they are inticing their students into wanting to come to school and learn each day. Within each edition there will be the areas that are based more on targeting the parents which will have been adjusted so that they are very positive which is keeping within the tone of the whole magazine, as well as looking polished and professionsal so that the parents will beattracted to the magazine and will want to read it.

To make sure that they are making an attractive magazine like when creating any other magazine cover the school needs to include at least these key features which include a Mast head, strap line and coverline to help draw in the attention. A main image to support the stories included inside as well as make it look eyecatching. Other possible features they could include are a barcode, and other not as important coverlines to help make the magazine look intreaging and full of important information that will be of a great knowledge to both a student or parent.