Get Your School Involved!
First News presents the weekly news in accessible and digestible chunks suitable for all levels of KS2 and KS3.
There’s never been a better time to subscribe to First News as we’ve just launched a version of First News for your interactive whiteboard. This brand new whiteboard package provides a perfect non-fiction Guided Reading resource.
First News presents the weekly news in accessible and digestible chunks suitable for all levels of KS2 and KS3.
Subscribe to at least six copies of First News and your school will get:
• A set of newspapers every week that report national and world news, science, sport, entertainment and green issues in an engaging, responsible and accessible way
• A high quality whiteboard version of the two most current issues, available to download as a Promethean Flipchart, a SMART notebook or a PDF
• Downloadable worksheets to make Guided Reading activities easy
• Activities to show how to use First News in other curriculum areas
First News isn’t just for the library. In paper and on the whiteboard it is now a versatile classroom resource.
Fill out the form today and get your school on board.
Fill out the form today and get your school on board.
The whiteboard version complements the paper copies and is an exact replica of the newspaper that can be read and annotated in introductory and plenary teaching sessions. Once up on the board you can zoom out to look at the whole page and read the headlines, and zoom in to read and annotate articles. Early feedback has proved extremely positive:
“The children love it when it’s their turn to read First News in Guided Reading and I know I’m providing relevant, high quality text which is suitable for all reading levels in the class. Having First News on the interactive whiteboard is great, it’s easy to use and we can share, discuss and analyse stories the children have found interesting.”
- Emyr Fairburn, Year 5 Teacher/Assistant Head, Thornhill Primary School
A recent global study by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) found that the pupils who discuss current affairs on a weekly or daily basis scored significantly higher in reading tests than pupils who rarely or never discussed the news.
