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Blackheath Bluecoats
Blackheath Bluecoat School is a school with a long and interesting history.  It incorporates the Greenwich Girls’ Blue Coat School, founded as a charity school in 1700, St John’s National Church of England School, the first Church School in the Blackheath area opened in 1854 and the Blackheath & Kidbrooke National Church of England School, which opened in 1911. Unfortunately last year Greenwich council's cabinet unanimously decided to close down the school by summer 2014. There were several reasons for this closure one being the £1.5m deficit that the school had due to the school only having 53 percent of its capacity. Despite GCSE results continuously improving, last year's results were below the borough average.
In my local newspaper I plan to feature the closure of Blackheath Bluecoats. I intend on interviewing some students and teachers to get an insight on what they think and how this will affect them.

Business
I will also feature a sub story on how the closure of the school will affect businesses near the school. I plan to interview a local shop manager and get their insight on whether this will affect their business. This story will act as an economic story, which will interest those teenagers who are interested in economics.

Sport
From my questionnaire I was able to identify what teenagers would like to see most in a newspaper. Sport was one the most popular subject matters that came up often. So in order to appeal to my target audience, I have also decided to include a sports story based on the Blackheath Rugby Team, where I will be interviewing one the players who also attends Blackheath Bluecoats School.