Preliminary Task - School Magazine

For my preliminary task I have to make the front page of a magazine for my school and a contents page.
To begin, I searched Google images for examples of other school magazine covers to give me an idea of what I need to do. I found a few good ones, and a few bad ones. Here are some examples:

The images above are ones I thought have room for improvement and the images below are ones I thought were quite good and that I like.
The magazine cover above is one I do not particularly like because it does not really look like a magazine cover and it is one that I would not takes ideas from. This cover has too much blank spaces and not enough information about what is in the magazine. It also does not include anything to do with the school as it is a photo of the person who made it, there are no photos of students and there is no school logo.

In the magazine above, I like the use of bright colours as it attracts your attention and it contrasts against the black backgrounds. I also like the layout and style of this front cover so I may use some ideas from this magazine in my own. This cover is my favourite out of the four photos I have uploaded.