Cool School Newsletters, Newspapers, and Magazines

How can newspapers and magazines provide a real-world audience for students?

Where can students publish their projects and artwork?

What makes online publishing so attractive to students?

Many schools have a newsletter or newspaper, but does your school publish an online newspaper or ezine? School e-newspapers include everything from a regular school newspaper along with columns, chats, forums, and other interactive features.

Be sure to explore the National Scholastic Press Association winners.

Looking for ways to produce high-quality online student newspapers? Read the following resources:

• Campus Weblines

This page contains links to newsletters as well as online school newspapers and magazines.

 

Newsletters

Elementary School

• Eagle Chatterbox from Swayzee Elementary
• Highlands Headlines – (5th grade student produced) LaGrange Highlands School District 106, IL
• Moleules in Motion from Arlington Science Focus School Kindergarten Class
• Newsletter from Collier Elementary School, Tuscon Unified School District, AZ
• Northfield Newsletter – elementary school in Ellicott City, MD (Index to pdf)
• ROMPS Review - Robinson O'Neal Primary School, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands (check out their May 2006 issue)

Middle School

• FalconFrenzy from Guy B. Phillips Middle School
  Student-published newspaper has been named the South Regional winner in the 2004 National Student Publishing Awards.
• GVMS Newsletter - Great Valley Middle School, Malvern PA (6 issues per year)
• Trottier Middle School Newsletter (Index to monthly editions)

High School

• Big Foot Bulletin from Big Foot High School, Walworth, WI (Index to monthly pdf)
• Eagle’s Eye – award winning student produced newspaper from  W.G. Enloe High School, Raleigh, NC
• New Plymouth Boys High School, New Zealand (Monthly newsletter, index to pdf)
• The Pirate Post
  Great online magazine produced by PCHS students and focused on the the school and surrounding community. They also have student websites and classroom pages.
• School Newsletter from Helensvale State High School (Index to pdf), Queensland, Australia

School District

• Online Newsletters for Parents from The Parent Institute, Office of Public Relations, Dade County Schools, FL (Index to pdf – early childhood, elementary, and middle school editions plus Spanish versions)
• Pathways from Indian Prairie School District 204, Illinois
• The Pipeline from Flagler County Public Schools, Bunnell, FL

Other Types of Newsletters for Comparison

• Connections from New York City Department of Education (Parent Association)
• Fresh Tastes @ School from New South Wales Dept of Education and Training
• The Tutor Newsletter (Index to pdf) from Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, OR
• "With Eyes to See" Social Justice Education Newsletter from Concern America

Commercial / Professional Newsletters in Other Areas

• Educator Newsletters from Roland U.S (Leading manufacturer and distributor of electronic musical instruments)
• Piano Adventures’ Teachers Newsletter (4 issues per year) by Nancy & Randall Faber
• Probeware Newsletters from Pasco (Learn about new products, unique science experiments, new funding opportunities and more.)
• Teaching Earth Science Newsletter from NASA

 

Online School Magazines and Newspapers

Explore the following online school magazines and newspapers.

Elementary

• Burn's Bunch News
• Class Newspaper
• Fourth Grade Times
• Mrs. Davie's Classroom Newspaper

Middle-High School

• Barb Wired from New Zealand
• Barque from Bellevue High School
• Beak 'N Eye Online from West Davenport, Iowa
• Black and White Online from Walt Whitman High School from Bethesda, Maryland
• The Charger from Pascock Middle School, Itasca School District, IL. (print version too)
• Daily Citizen from Millard South
• eCALL from Kirkwood, Missouri
• FVHS Wired Baron from Fountain Valley High School, Fountain Valley, Calif.
• HiLite Online from Carmel, Indiana
• Junior Seahawk from Seattle, Washington
• King's Courier from El Camino
• Lion's Roar from Newton South High School, Newton Centre, Mass.
• Lowell on the Web from San Francisco, Calif.
• The Milwaukian from Milwaukie High School, Milwaukie, OR
• Orange and Black GJHS News from Grand Junction High School, Grand Junction, CO
• Oshkosh West from Oshkosh, WI
• The Mission from Shawnee Mission North High School, Overland Park, KS
• The Paly Voice from Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, Calif.
• Patriot Press from Calvert County Public Schools, Maryland
• Rockville Rampage Online from Rockville High School, Rockville, Maryland
• Silver Chips Online from Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Spectator Online from Stuyvesant High School, New York, N.Y.
• The Southerner from Henry W. Grady High School, Georgia
• tjTODAY
• Wolfpacket Online from Claremont Unified School District, Claremont, Calif.

 

Try It

Explore online student magazines and newspapers. Brainstorm ways you could start your own project.

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