A Message from John Gilbert:
A World 1st at Hazelwood - a pre-school Newspaper Group.
 
At 8.20am on any Thursday morning at Hazelwood School there are 50-60 Newspaper Readers. From Yr 1 to Yr 6 there is debate and discussion and illustration and thought and questions and questioning on geography, history, politics, the environment, global heating, science, engineering, business, sport, fashion and more. 
The catalyst for every ‘student’, our readers like to be called students and not children, is the 90p ‘I’ Newspaper. All attending take their intellectual momentum forward into their classrooms and onwards to their families for afternoon and evening discussions. Most importantly, there isn’t a screen in sight. We celebrate their reading skills, a growing vocabulary, the human voice, positive and expressive body language and the ability to interact and discuss about anything and everything with anyone and everyone. Our Headteacher Mr Newham and John Gilbert, the world’s oldest paper boy, believe that every primary and secondary school in the world would benefit greatly by creating their own Hazelwood style Newspaper Group 🍎