02. Focus groups for School magazine.

Today involved meeting three focus groups, in order to make a successful school magazine.

•  the first was a group of several year 7's
•  the second was two female members of staff 
• lastly was three Sixth form boys as all the other focus groups have been female as we are a girls school. This was to make sure that the information was unbiased and could relate to all genders, ages and interests. 

The year 7's - wanted information such as:

• Celebrity information- in particular one direction
• News- events page
• Posing fun at the teachers
• information- from council meetings
• Awards and achievements 
• Sports section
• Free give away- (vouchers for the canteen) 
• Hororscopes
• agony aunt page
• Canteen section- special offers, menu ect
• Colour scheme- NOT school colours
• Revision sessions
• Published monthly.

Staff

• Mainly focused on students and parents
• To hear students opinions- creative writing
• Head of house element
• Themed pages
• School colour scheme- red, white and black
• Serious articles relating to bigger issues outside of school- but that relate to school life 
• Pols and stats
• Light hearted- humorous colums
• Lower and upper school section
• Problems page
• Events page
• Published termly. 

The sixth Form boys

• Someone attractive on the cover- female
• Colourful- bold and bright
• Canteen- menus and special deals
• reviews on latest gadgets, video games ect
• Fashion page
• More emphasis on the issues outside of school that will effect us
• Sport section- focusing mainly on the football academy- scores and information from the game
• Published Every Fortnight. 

From all this information gathered- there are a few ideas that have come up a lot, like the idea of the canteen, events page, Sports section, the idea of how outside of school issues can affect us in school. 

However some ideas have been completely interpreted differently like when the magazine will be published, personally I think it should be published every term. That way we will have lots of fresh and new information to publish and realistically it will be published on time.

Also there was some controversy with the colour scheme, the year 7's were adamant that they did not want the school colours however the other two focus groups were not bothered on that idea, so weather we incorporate the school colours alongside other eye catching and bold colours.