Ascension : Kids Klub
Submitted by The Islander (Sarah Coverdale) 06.03.2008 (Article Archived on 20.03.2008)
O.K. a little history lesson for you all this week. Over 3 years ago I was approached by the Islander to help them out.
O.K. a little history lesson for you all this week. Over 3 years ago I was approached by the Islander to help them out. They wanted something to expand their readership and to encourage younger readers of the islander. So Kids Klub came along. I think I achieved their aims – something for young people, fun, jokes, news, we even had competitions! It started out rather basic – I wasn’t so hot on the computer and some weeks it really was down to a glue stick and scissors to add pictures to the pages and physically getting in the car and driving to Georgetown to drop papers under the door in the dark hours of night! To begin with I covered the activities and groups that you children attended on the Island including Rainbows and Scouts. There were Creature Features staring the Islands animals; Centipedes, land crabs and the Donkeys among others, with facts and fun that all had to be researched. Researching Football had to be the biggest challenge for me – to condense it into one page, but being the World Cup it had to be done!
I even set a challenge as to where I was writing the islander from one week – my home town Penrith in the Lake District – and yes – some of you did your research and guessed correctly!
On occasions I would get Editors phoning me up asking where the page was and once I did actually forget and being so late, thought I could get away with recycling an old page – I did get caught out with that when a reader from the U.K. actually contacted me to say that they had seen that page before! Do you know which one it was?
How many of these do you remember? Look through this wordsearch for some of the titles I have covered.
April Fool G8 Revision tips
Arctic Green Mountain/National Park Turtle
Colouring comp Harry/Potter V.E. Day
Commonwealth Games Live8 Wimbledon
Dr Who NASA/site
Falklands war Queens 80th birthday
Fish Queen Atlantis
Football t-shirt comp Ramadan
Fruit and veg Remembrance Day
I started with a history lesson, I will end on a little lesson of common courtesy. If someone does something, especially if you have asked them, is it not manners to say Thank You or even acknowledge a helping hand?
(Apparantly those in charge do not see the Kids Klub as a worthwhile contribution to the Islander).
Therefore; Sorry Kids.
I’m signing off.
Sarah
(one page less to print from now on).
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