Auburn School District No. 408
915 4th Street Northeast, Auburn, WA  98002

 10/10/02

NEWS RELEASE
Terminal Park brings Media into the Classroom

Terminal Park Elementary School students are actively involved in broadcast media.  The students prepare a taped broadcast each day to be televised the following day.  The students participate as film crews and announcers.  Their broadcasts contain announcements and other pertinent information. Each day of the week, special programming is developed for the broadcast.  On Mondays, English as Second Language (ESL) students give a lesson on counting or speaking a word in their language. On Tuesdays, the broadcast students tell a joke or give an unusual fact.  On Wednesdays, the students interview someone such as a new student council officer, teacher, or volunteer. On Thursdays, a student shares his or her art or other creative work. On Fridays, the counselor (with the help of puppeteer students) prepares a puppet show teaching something about the social skill of the month.

Every day, Principal Mike Nollan delivers a message and also gives a Daily Detective clue.  The Daily Detective items are geography clues about a country or state or clues about famous people.  Classes that get the week’s answer to the clue are recognized on the following Monday’s broadcast.

The school’s student council elections are shown via closed circuit. The candidates prepare and present their speeches on tape. Then the tape is played at a specific time during the day.  Students vote immediately for the candidates, rather than waiting to come back to the room from an election assembly in the gym.

For more information, contact Terminal Park Elementary School teachers Ronda Simmons and Dorothy Luke at (253) 931-4978.