Why is First News such a unique and valuable resource for Home Educators?

If you are considering or have already taken the brave step to teach your children at home, you clearly take a special interest in their education and personal development. You want to play an active role in their understanding of the world and to do whatever you can to set them up for all the challenges and wonderful experiences of modern life.

But how can you keep your child abreast of the latest news and current affairs? And importantly, how do you even begin to get them interested and stimulate their ongoing motivation to learn?

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First News is the award-winning weekly newspaper for children (aged 7-14). The difference in the way that First News present the news is that they do not assume children know the background to a situation such as the issues in the Middle East. They always put each news story in context and use graphics to make it exciting, impartial and engaging.

By providing a mixture of serious and more light-hearted stories and varying the length of reports from in-depth features to bite-sized news briefs First News has become the widest read weekly children’s publication in the UK. Recent research shows that First News is read by over 763,000 children* every week.

Don’t just take our word for it, as one of our subscribers said:

"First News is full of news aimed at children. A great way to keep abreast of the world around us. I particularly like it for my home educated children, we have used it to inspire many topics of discussion around our dinner table.” Claire Madgwick, home educator

* YouGov survey, autumn 2007.