Islander

After the hustle and bustle of the beginning of the academic year, September is a little quieter. It is at this point in time that outstanding applications and rigorous interviews occur for students who wish to be one half of the pair of co-editors for the Islander team. Once chosen, they join in on the next round of selecting the team; looking over more applications and choosing the department heads and department members. In quite a short space of time, the new Islander team is selected

Being a part of this project, considering it is on such a massive scale, harvests many talents and develops new ones as well. All students garner perfected capabilities in terms of commitment, delegation, time management and organisation by the end of this experience. The different departments mean that there is most likely something for everyone; there are sections for finance and public relations, layout and design, photography and articles, aside from the two editorial positions. Anybody looking to go into careers such as accounting, business, advertising, graphic design, art, photography, journalism, publishing, writing and/or management will be able to learn a lot from the tasks they will inevitably go through to make it to the end product.

The Islander covers everything that has happened to the school, the staff and the student body throughout the year. It typically has around 400 pages across the following sections:

 

 

Editorials, Reports, Reflections, Events, Sports, Interim Week, Students Work, Students, Departments, Leavers, Awards and Autographs

 

This year we have been fortunate enough to have a superb team, that double as a close-knit group of friends, working to make this Islander as good, or even better, than all the fabulous ones that have preceded it. It has required many hours of solid work, both inside and outside of school hours, but we know it will all pay off when we leave our mark on the school’s history books.

 

Isla Petersen & Bernard Luk (Co-Editors of Islander 2009-2010)