Media in the Local Community
Balwearie High School
Balwearie High School is large school situated
in the west of Kirkcaldy with approximately 1750 pupils. It was built in 1964.
Our schools facilities include a swimming pool, 2 games halls, an AstroTurf
pitch, hockey pitch and a full sized running track.
Some of the subjects our school offers are:
English, PE, art, geography, chemistry, physics, biology, drama, Spanish,
French, German, music and technologies.
There are many extra-curricular activities
currently run in Balwearie including: Erasmus, football, netball, rugby,
basketball, hockey, dancing, athletics and for the first time we have a ski
team.
Kirkcaldy (The Local Community)
Kirkcaldy is the largest coastal town in the
east of Scotland in Fife with a population which is approximately 50000
people. People who are famous who come
from Kirkcaldy are: Gordon Brown (former prime minister), Guy Berryman (part of
the band Coldplay) and David Potter (Arsenal Footballer).
We conducted a survey about how people in our
community like to access their local news through the use of a survey website
called “Survey Monkey”. The category with the most responses was females under
18. This may be due to the fact the Erasmus group consists of more females than
males therefore they may be more likely to ask friends of the same gender.
The answer to our main question, “What media
source do you use to learn about news in your local community?” was Social
Media (28%), closely followed by Newspaper and TV (both at 20%), then Radio
(17%) and the least popular was Internet News Survey (15%). This is surprising
because many people use tablets and smart phones therefore making it easier to
access online articles and boosting the percentage of people using Internet
News Surveys. However there is no surprise to see Social Media at the top of
the table especially as most of our respondents are under 18.
Taken into account the ratio of men to women we
found that both genders were equally as likely to pay for news despite recent
statistics which suggest women are more generous than men.
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