WHEN Guardian Angels’ Primary School’s $3 million Building the Education Revolution (BER) project is officially opened on May 17 the Year 6 and 7 students are bound to be there with cameras rolling.
Principal of the Gold Coast school Terry Gimpel said the new building that was already in use, contained science and manual arts facilities, a class kitchen, library, and performing arts facilities incorporating a sound studio and green screen.
Mr Gimpel said the green screen and sound studio had been a great addition to the weekly Year 6 and 7 news broadcasts.
“For a number of years now our Sixes and Sevens prepare a weekly news bulletin that was aired during the Friday-morning assembly,” he said.
“It is totally produced by the students and runs for a maximum of four minutes and is on any news stories happening around the school, and the product has improved.”
Mr Gimpel said sound quality in the past was “sometimes a little suspect” but since the sound studio came on line it was much easier on the ears.
“They can get in there now and do their interviews or recordings and they don’t have all the background noise,” he said.
Mr Gimpel said there was an opportunity for all of the Year 6 and 7 students to be involved.
“The children are doing it themselves in some way whether it be areas such as writing the stories, in front of the camera, or the sound and filming,” he said.
“The kids are working together as a team and it is quite an effective program and educational tool.”
The students turned the tables on this journalist when
I went to talk to them about their news broadcasts and put me in front of their camera to ask about The Catholic Leader.
It became obvious they are a skilled bunch of students.
Georgia Clegg completed a number of broadcasts as a Year 6 student last year and is a talented editor and cameraman.
She said the new facility had made a big difference to the weekly production.
“We had a fold-up portable green-screen that we took anywhere we needed to go, but it was just a nuisance it was so hard to pack up,” she said.
Zali Seebach agreed, saying sound had improved greatly with the use of the new studio.
“If we were filming outside there would be the wind and the crows and it was so hard (because) you couldn’t hear what the interviewers and interviewees were saying,” she said.
“It is so much better in here because it is silent and there is no background noise.”
