BZ brings newspaper to school
As part of the "Newspaper at School" funding project, 65 school classes deal with the topic of newspapers and publish their own reports.
The Berner Zeitung (BZ) is launching the second round of its "Newspaper in Schools" project. In the coming months, 65 school classes from the Espace Mittelland region will take an in-depth look at the daily newspaper and actively integrate the medium into the school curriculum. In the first phase, the third to sixth graders will engage intensively - both playfully and seriously - with the medium of the daily newspaper. In the further course of the project, the school classes research topics of their own choice and, under the guidance of members of the editorial team, produce reports that are printed on an editorial page of the BZ.
The project was launched in 2004 in response to the Pisa study under the title "Reading at school". It has since been adopted by numerous Swiss publishers, as the BZ writes in a press release. The project receives technical support through cooperation with the German Institute for Objectification of Learning and Examination Procedures (IZOP). There is already a waiting list for a planned continuation of the project in 2007.
