Armed with a camera in one hand and a draft newspaper layout in the other, at just 10 years old Sienna Boog wants to tell stories about the world around her.
One night the Charlestown East Public School student was reading the graphic novel Sweet Valley Twins when she had an idea.
She could start a school newspaper.
"I wrote a draft that same night, took it to my teacher, then principal and it went from there," she said.
The school is working on launching The Charlestown East Voice with the help of a Canon Oceanic grant.
One of four recipients, the students will get $5000, including student-friendly Canon cameras to bring their project to life.
Sienna has never done anything like this before, but she does like to watch the news and know what is happening around her.
"I'm really excited for everyone to see what we can achieve by writing and filming important events," she said.
Her hand-drawn draft included a section for different topics or fun facts about the school community and an area for people to draw their own comics.
"I'm going to see what everyone's ideas are because there are a lot of people doing it," she said.
School principal Michelle Unterrheiner said they already had 22 expressions of interest from students when they had raised the new project in school assemblies over the past two weeks.
"There's a lot of chatter and buzz around the place as to what this is going to look like," Ms Unterrheiner said.
"We are focused on having students involved in initiating activities so it is uncommon for children to come up to my office and put a proposal forward," she said.
Ms Unterrheiner said they had run a planning meeting, where years 3 and 4 students brought up different areas they were interested in.
Some said they wanted to do comics, others wanted to interview people, some wanted to focus on sport, and some will act as editors.
Year 4 student Felix Tweedie spent his free time creating iMovie videos where he asked his friends about what was happening at school.
He was most excited for the writing part of doing a school newspaper.
"I think the school newspaper is a really good idea to express students' voices and all the stuff that is going on at the school," he said.
He was keen to write about the annual teachers versus Year 6 sports event.
His classmate Isla Fife-Jackson was really excited to put her photo skills to good use.
"I have a camera that can print out photos and I just use it a lot, I take photos of my dog," she said.
Indiana De Leye was interested in interviewing the teacher of the month.
When she grows up she wants to be an author or an illustrator.
The group of four students was excited to open their computers, get brainstorming and start telling the stories of their school
