Funding: 100,000 from the European Social Fund (Objective One) for two years until June 2008
Goals: To raise young people's literacy across Rotherham
Improving literacy in the classroom can be a dry affair, so one project has been bringing the subject to life for disadvantaged young people by getting them involved in journalism.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council's Schools Effectiveness Partnership set up the Rotherham Student Journalist Project three years ago, with 10 young people. This September it will have units in most schools and colleges in the area.
The young people go out into the community and meet local people and organisations to find news and then write up their stories. Groups also meet with sub-editors at publishers Johnston Press once a month to talk about journalism, learn skills such as QuarkXpress, and see their stories laid out in a double-page news spread for the Worksop Guardian.
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