Education chiefs have praised a project run by the Newcastle Evening Chronicle which gives young people the chance to be newspaper reporters for the day.

George Anderson, team leader of the DfES School Business Links Team, visited the Chronicle’s Newspapers in Education Newsroom during a visit to Newcastle to see the links between education and business.

The newsroom in Stoddard Street, Shieldfield, gives children an insight into the daily life of a newspaper.

George said: “The good thing about the newsroom is that children are able to learn literacy skills which fit in with the national curriculum.

“The children are also learning important team-building skills and how to generate ideas within working conditions.”

Pupils from schools all over the North have been to visit the newsroom since it opened earlier this year.

Kay Thompson, the company’s Newspapers in Education co-ordinator, said: “The children get a whole day learning about newspaper production and get to write and produce their own news stories.

“They learn key skills on the computers and about newspapers, which are part of the National Curriculum.

“And all the children leave with their very own front page, designed and written by themselves.”

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