Scottish school magazine competition 2008 Shortlist announced

1 May 2008
Scottish school magazine competition
2008 Shortlist announced
Pupils from secondary schools all over Scotland will gather at The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on
Friday 6 June to learn if they have won the Scottish School Magazine of the Year competition for 2008.
Burgeoning young talent will be recognised and rewarded at a special afternoon ceremony which will
take place in the inspirational surroundings of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Deputy Presiding
Officer Trish Godman MSP will welcome around 200 pupils and guests and Maureen Watt MSP, Minister
for School & Skills will be handing out the prizes. The award ceremony will be hosted by BBC Scotland’s
Cathy MacDonald.
From the sixty schools which registered to enter the competition, nineteen schools went forward to the final
judging day. The distinguished panel of ten judges, chaired by journalist and publisher Ray Perman, a
member of the Board at Scottish Enterprise, came together in Edinburgh to assess the entries. Their task
was made tough and exacting by the array of unique publications put before them. They were impressed not
only by the enthusiasm, competence and boldness displayed within the pages of each submission, but also by
the many excellent ideas coming through from young editors, writers, designers and publishers of the future.
After careful consideration and deliberation, the judges’ shortlist selection, in alphabetical order by school,
for the nine award categories is as follows:
1. Best Magazine Cover
• Boclair Academy, Bearsden / Boclair School Magazine
• Coatbridge High School, Coatbridge / Rare Beast
• St Margaret’s High School, Airdrie / Download
2. Best Editorial Content & Team
• Boclair Academy, Bearsden / Boclair School Magazine
• Coatbridge High School, Coatbridge / Rare Beast
• Queensferry Community High School, South Queensferry / QHM
• Stromness Academy, Orkney Islands / Stromnessian
3. Best Feature Article
• Coatbridge High School, Coatbridge / Rare Beast
• Queensferry Community High School, South Queensferry / QHM
• Stromness Academy, Orkney Islands / Stromnessian
4. Best Overall Design & Layout
• Boclair Academy, Bearsden / Boclair School Magazine
• Douglas Academy, Milngavie / Say What
• St Margaret’s High School, Airdrie / Download
5. Best Original Artwork or Photography
• Douglas Academy, Milngavie / Say What
• Kingussie High School, Kingussie / Spey Stories
• Stromness Academy, Orkney Islands / Stromnessian
6. Best Online Presence
• Balfron High School, Balfron / Balfron Banter
• Lawside RC Academy, Dundee / Breakout
• Newbattle High School, Dalkeith / Newbattle News
7. Best Commercial Strategy
• Banff Academy, Banff / Vivat
• Paisley Grammar, Paisley / The Grammarian
• St Margaret’s High School, Airdrie / Download
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8. Outstanding Individual
• Banff Academy, Banff / Vivat / Sam Gluckstein
• Coatbridge High School, Coatbridge / Rare Beast / Allyson Banford
• Lawside RC Academy, Dundee / Breakout / Liam Smith
9. Scottish School Magazine of the Year 2008
• Boclair Academy, Bearsden / Boclair School Magazine
• Coatbridge High School, Coatbridge / Rare Beast
• St Margaret’s High School, Airdrie / Download
• Stromness Academy, Orkney Islands / Stromnessian
Through this competition, The Periodical Publishers Association in Scotland (PPA Scotland) aims to raise
awareness and understanding of the skills required by and expectations of the magazine industry and to
encourage school-leavers to consider the magazine industry as a career choice. The competition is run in
partnership with and sponsored by Determined to Succeed, the Scottish Government’s strategy for enterprise
in education. This country’s future depends on young people with positive attitudes and good core skills, who
understand about business and entrepreneurship and who are eager to benefit from lifelong learning which
starts in the classroom.
Scottish magazine publishers and industry suppliers are lending their support for this competition and will
provide work experience, mentoring or production/printing tours for winning schools. Every shortlisted school
will receive a special certificate to acknowledge its achievement and representatives from the school which
wins Scottish School Magazine of the Year 2008 will be invited to attend the Scottish Magazine Awards
which will be held in November, as guests of PPA Scotland. The overall winning team will also have the
opportunity to watch their magazine being professionally printed in York, as guests of Acorn Web Offset.
THE JUDGES
Chairman: Ray Perman, Scottish Enterprise Board Member
Matthew Ball, Consultant, Matthew Ball Design
Pat Roberts Cairns OBE, Editorial consultant and past Editor-in-chief, Good Housekeeping
Sally Cartwright OBE, Publishing Director, Hello! magazine
Justin Chater, Director, Pinpoint Scotland
Gillian Macdonald, Deputy Editor, Times Educational Supplement Scotland
David McIntosh, Commercial & Marketing Director, Menzies Distribution
Jenny McKay, Director of Journalism Programme, University of Stirling
Jane Robson, Communications Manager, Scottish Government
Christopher Ward, Chairman, Redwood Publishing
SPONSORS
PPA Scotland is grateful to the following sponsors for their generous support of this event:
• Main sponsor: Determined to Succeed (Scottish Government)
• Media partner: Times Educational Supplement Scotland
• Category sponsors: Acorn Web Offset, Clash Magazine, End of Term magazine,
Homes & Interiors Scotland, Holyrood Communications, MCL-Edinburgh, National Federation
of Retail Newsagents, Pinoint Scotland
• General sponsors: Connect Communications, Fusion Flowers, Matthew Ball Design,
Menzies Distribution, Newsquest (Herald & Times), DC Thomson, White Light Media
PERIODICAL PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION (PPA)
The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA), the organisation for magazine and business & professional
media publishers in the UK, has been promoting the interests of magazine publishers for over 90 years. It has
an overall membership of some 400 publishing companies who together publish more than 3,000 magazine
titles and around 4,520 products and services, representing more than 80% of the magazine industry in the
UK. The PPA head office is in London. PPA Scotland, the Scottish arm of the association, represents over
30 member organisations from the Scottish magazine and publishing industry. PPA Scotland is administered
by Kathy Crawford, Business Manager.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information on PPA Scotland, the Scottish School Magazine Competition and the Scottish
Magazine Awards, please contact:
A: PPA Scotland, 22 Rhodes Park, North Berwick, East Lothian EH39 5NA
T: 01620 890800
E: kathy.crawford@ppascotland.co.uk
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