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Shine Winners 2022

For the second year in a row, King’s has been recognised by the Shine Media Awards at a nominees’ lunch in London. Sponsored by the Stationers’ Company, Shine celebrates the best talent in student media.

Accompanied by Dr McLaverty-Head and Mr Pearson, our students this year enjoyed workshops and a lunch at the Royal Overseas League. Edmund and Joseph represented the school radio station The King’s Voice and Elliot and Magnus represented the Lower Sixth Key Skills blog The King’s Speech.

The King’s Voice won a Rising Star Award recognising “great potential.”

Elliot was highly commended for his cartoon of the footballer Ronaldo and Magnus won best photograph for “Bubbles.”

Judging Elliott’s cartoon, Steve Marchant from the Cartoon Museum praised a “classy, professional-looking piece of work.” Freelance magazine photographer Lucy Young noted that Magnus had a “strong technical understanding of photography.”

As well as enjoying the lunch, students took part in professional workshops on cartoons and podcasts.

A big congratulations both to our specific winners and to everyone else involved with Speech and Voice this year.

You can follow KSW student media here:

The King’s Speech (Twitter | Instagram)

The King’s Voice (Twitter | Instagram)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Winners’ lunch in London

Sarah Brown (U6 Os) and Felicity Quiney (U6 Br) accompanied Dr McLaverty-Head to London on Monday for the Shine School Media Awards lunch at the Guildhall. Sarah and Felicity, along with Sophie Atkins, Imogen Brinksman, and Jack Wharton, were writers for the school’s Sixth Form blog The King’s Speech which won Shine’s “Rising Star Award.”

The Shine School Media Awards are run by the Stationers’ Company and recognise excellence in school journalism. Every year, Lower Sixth students write for the blog as part of a journalism option in the Key Skills programme. This year’s team has expanded to include photographers and cartoonists.

The King’s Speech can be read at kingsspeech.edublogs.org and followed on Twitter @KingsSpeechKSW.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WINNERS!

The King’s Speech has won a “Rising Stars” award from the Shine School Media Awards! We will be invited to a gala lunch in London in September.

About the Shine School Media Awards:

The Shine School Media Awards is a national competition that rewards a diversity of talent from secondary schools across the UK who work on the writing, editing, design and fund-raising for a school newspaper, magazine, podcast or website. The culmination of each year’s Shine Awards is a spectacular summertime gala awards ceremony held in the City of London. The significant benefits of starting a Shine project include an enrichment of the school curriculum, an incentive to creativity and the chance for pupils to win national recognition and in the process enrich their CV and applications for university or college. The Shine Awards is an endeavour of The Stationers’ Foundation, the charitable arm of The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, one of the UK’s ancient livery companies.

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Introducing The King’s Speech

On the walls of the IT classroom Java are framed front pages from the King’s Herald, a student newspaper which ran from 1988 to 2007. Featured headlines run from the poll tax controversy in 1991 to the Iraq War in 2003.

Student journalism at King’s has a long history. Harriet Patrick, School Archivist, gives the following brief snapshot:

“I understand that Mr Roslington (Staff 1975-2010) set up the [King’s Herald] club. The paper started in 1988, and wound down in 2007. Thereafter, Term Time was introduced as a replacement … offering Sixth Formers the challenge of producing a magazine in a day. Stepping Fourth was launched in 2001. The Herald editorial team won the Times newspaper competition in 1990, and various other awards in other years.”

The King’s Speech is published as part of the Key Skills programme in the Lower Sixth and intends to give students an opportunity to learn to report on life at school and hone their writing skills along the way.