PANJIM: Bainguinim was awash with surprise and awe Monday morning, as its popular educational landmark, Sunshine Worldwide School, woke up to its very own edition of Junior Herald.
The publication, by Herald Group, is a weekly one which is distributed on Mondays, on a circulation basis amongst school-goers. However, aiming to best represent their reader’s interests, the team from Junior Herald decided to undertake a new endeavour – a monthly school-based special edition. They began this journey at random, picking Sunshine Worldwide School to be their first port of call. The edition, after much planning and production came to fruition Monday, with the Junior Herald team making a visit to the school to hand out copies.
As the team looked for reactions on what the faculty members felt about the special edition, the feedback to the project was positive, with the members of staff feeling that such endeavours best represent their student’s views. “As a teacher, it was truly a proud moment to see the students’ work come alive,” said Charlene Farrell, a counsellor and psychology educator at the institution.
“This was a great initiative, which gave the students a chance to shine and showcase their talent,” said Kshama Dhadwadkar, a French educator at the school, agreeing with her colleague’s outlook.
In keeping with the overall sentiment, Margaret Fernandes, one of the school’s history educators added to the other’s views, saying “The edition was beautifully designed and it is a great issue overall.”
As students milled around the many copies distributed on campus, one of the contributors to the magazine and a student of class 10, Ari Pereira was surprised at the discoveries that could be made about one’s own hallowed halls, despite spending years there; all through such an initiative in print.
“It was nice to see my fellow Sunshiner’s articles, and I found out things about my school that I didn’t yet know. Overall, I loved the issue,” Ari said. Much like his fellow class 10 compatriot, Ricardo Cardoz found himself pleasantly surprised with the Sunshine Worldwide School Special Edition. “I thought the issue was really nice and unique,” he beamed, before turning back to his copy of the edition.
While Sunshine Worldwide School is the first school upon which the school-based special edition series was tested, the team from Junior Herald will now make its way from one institution to another, across the state, in an attempt to have every school come up with their unique way of representing themselves, using Junior Herald as a platform for this expression.
