Welcome to the Shine School Media Awards!
The Shine School Media Awards is a national competition that rewards a diversity of talent from secondary schools across the UK who work on the writing, editing, design and fund-raising for a school newspaper, magazine, podcast or website.
The culmination of each year’s Shine Awards is a spectacular summertime gala awards ceremony held in the City of London.
The significant benefits of starting a Shine project include an enrichment of the school curriculum, an incentive to creativity and the chance for pupils to win national recognition and in the process enrich their CV and applications for university or college.
The Shine Awards is an endeavour of The Stationers’ Foundation, the charitable arm of The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, one of the UK’s ancient livery companies.
After the frustrations we’ve all experienced in 2020, we are already looking forward to seeing friends old and new in a rebooted Shine competition in summer 2021.
Latest news
19th January 2021
Ask the expert: teacher edition
Last time I announced the coming launch of a suite of videos covering all aspects of the competition categories. The first one we are offering you is between Rosie Birks, Teacher of English and Head of House at The Ecclesbourne School, who is new to Shine and wants to set up a student magazine, and Alan Williams, Design & Technology Teacher and Publications Manager at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, who is an old hand and offers much sage advice on how to go about it.

Our entrants speak...
“We never imagined we’d arrive at a glitzy awards ceremony in London having reached the final shortlist. A great experience — we’ve already registered for next year!”
Jasmine Pentleton, Duchess’s High School, Northumberland
More feedback from schoolsLatest Tweets
IBSTOCK PLACE SCHOOL
@IBSTOCKPLACE - Jan 21
RT @IBSTOCKPLACE: Juno Worsdell (OI 2019) is a 2nd year @UniversityLeeds Law student. She was an editor on ‘The Wall’ which won a national…
Shine School Media Awards
@shinemediawards - Jan 21
Introducing the first in Shine's new conversation series 'Ask the expert'. First up is our teacher edition, discussing how to begin a school media project >>> https://t.co/Dp0CMQ0Iw3 #askthexpert https://t.co/QeR2jV4IaZ
Shine School Media Awards
@shinemediawards - Nov 20
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