The Açı Journal club for grades 5-6 is a keen collaboration of
middle school students expressing their ideas and using their creativity in diverse ways: from live reporting to film reviews and even making fashion statements. This club is aimed to enhance critical thinking, writing, and general imaginative abilities of students as they learn how to collaborate and work together in the creation of a magazine that appeals primarily to their middle school counterparts, but also to other students, teachers, parents and administrators associated with Açı. As Açı Journal club members we believe that good reporting, field trips with emphasis on critical observation, interviewing skills, ability to visualize content layout and design, innovative ideas, and most importantly the spirit to inform whilst entertaining are the key elements to a successful journal production. Currently we are publishing in English and Turkish. In the future we aim to be a successful bilingual journal reaching out to a wider audience.