TODAY’S children have a habit of making up their own minds and getting right to the heart of situations.
At a time when the media is undergoing changes, it was refreshing to go along to a   session with Year 5 children at Tonge Moor Primary School in Bolton last week. I’d been asked along as part of a project the eight and nine year-olds were doing about news.
They were well-prepared, bright as a button and genuinely interested in the subject. They asked me intelligent questions like “Does the media still impact on your life?” which pushed me out of my comfort zone, and came up with fascinating observations of their own about what news is really important today (celebrities are interesting but it’s fires in wheelie bins that really needs addressing.)
All it all, it wasn’t only a thoroughly enjoyable session but quite heartening, too, for the future of media generally. It also showed that modern schoolchildren are very aware of what is happening around them, and know how they want the future to be.