Pupils trace headlines through time at ST's 180th anniversary exhibition

Three times a week, Arshita Kaur's mother picks out interesting headlines from The Straits Times and reads the articles to the nine-year-old as bedtime stories.

- Emerald Lo

"Reading the news lets me know more because sometimes people do good things that we can learn from," said Arshita, who found an article about a foster mum taking care of nine children in her home particularly meaningful and is excited to learn more about journalism.

She was one of the 45 pupils from Radin Mas Primary School who visited ST's 180th anniversary exhibition at Jewel Changi Airport on July 15.

Guided around the exhibition by Ms Diane Leow, ST's editor of newsroom insights, the excursion was part of the school's middle primary talent programme to introduce pupils who are strong in English to journalism.

Titled Heartbeats And Headlines: 180 Years Of Telling The Singapore Story, the exhibition traces ST's journey from a colonial newspaper to a national broadsheet, and its evolution into the multi-platform media outlet that it is today.