Year 10 English students at Penola High School had a deeper look into a career in journalism when SA Today journalist Sophie Conlon visited their class recently. `
Ms Conlon talked through different pathways into the field and explained how to find and write a story before she, and English teacher Patrick Smith, held a mock press conference.
Mr Smith acted as government official Clive Vengelheirmer who was tight lipped about giving updates on an alien invasion four days prior.
After the mock press conference the class worked with Ms Conlon to write the below story.
During the activity they asked questions around how the invasion had happened, but realised they had forgotten to ask about other details like who the “selected people” being saved were.
It is time to give up hope, the aliens have taken over the world and our only chance at survival is an ogre and donkey, according to the government.
Government official Clive Vengelheirmer said a public safety order was in place and people’s diets, lifestyles and daily activities have been impacted.
“As this is now four days into what has been happening, we’ve had to take this unprecedented action to ensure public safety,” he said.
“Further information will be coming from out of the Premier’s office as soon as we given the all clear.”
Mr Vengelheirmer said restrictions would help reduce the hoarding of supplies and ensure only selected people would be saved.
“This is one of the learnings from Covid that prevents the hoarding of materials and supplies, so that we have materials and supplies for those who urgently need it, we are working out who urgently needs to be kept alive,” he said.
“Unfortunately, there are sacrifices we’re willing to make, some of you may die, however, we may get saved by an ogre, and a donkey.”
Fines and arrests would be enforced if rules were not followed.
This comes as aliens invaded earth four days ago after a nuclear explosion, Mr Vengelheirmer said no methods of defence had been effective yet.
“Any research that we have done in the four days has found any conventional weaponry, any biological weaponry and any unconventional weaponry has not been successful,” he said.
“We don’t know the enemy, and stopping short of having a repeat of Nagasaki, we might have to take more drastic action.
“There is no new hope, we have given up.”
