Help kids experiencing homelessness

Help kids experiencing homelessness

| By Jayni, 3rd grade | April 2020 … Hey kids, do you want to spread cheer and make a difference while you’re indoors during COVID-19? I recently interviewed with…

Missing school

| By Bryana, 3rd grade | April 2020 … What I miss from school are my class and my teacher. I miss my teacher’s face and I miss my class’s…

5th grader talks about the shutdown

| By Trevor, 5th grade | March 2020…The coronavirus has affected my friends and me. Norristown schools, like many across the world, closed to prevent spread of the virus. Now,…

How it feels to interview an expert

March 2020 … Ava is an 8-year-old health reporter at Whitehall Elementary School. Her newspaper team talked with a Drexel University public health professor about the coronavirus on March 24….

Q&A about the virus

March 2020 … Eight Whitehall Healthy Reporter third graders conducted their second interview by video this school year on Tuesday, March 24. For 45 minutes, the Norristown students posed nearly two dozen…

Vaccines are a lifesaver

March 2020 … Vaccines protect children against diseases that historically have hurt children, according to Dr. Paul Offit of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In a video interview with Phillip, an East Norriton Middle School…

Launching Health Beat Live

March 2020 … Maggie, a sixth grader at East Norriton Middle School, kicked off the Health Beat Live, a video series focused on COVID-19 and related issues by Healthy NewsWorks…

Hats off to East Norriton

March 2020 … Dr. Robert Sharrar, a former chief epidemiologist for Philadelphia, fielded questions about the coronavirus from 31 East Norriton Middle School students on March 18 via a video…