NewsWise offers lesson plans, activities and teacher guidance to engage pupils aged 7-11 with news and develop crucial critical literacy skills. Each lesson incorporates authentic skills from the newsroom, with pupils progressing through Journalist Training School as they complete the unit of work, culminating in them producing their own news report at the end of the project.
NewsWise lesson plans and resources are open to all schools, everywhere, for free. Complete a short registration form to access the resources.
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Schools with high rates of pupils eligible for free school meals can sign up for NewsWise level 2, with workshops, additional resources and support from the NewsWise team.
Visit our get involved page to find out more and sign up
The NewsWise navigator is designed to help children check if they can trust what they are reading. Download the poster to display in the classroom and give to your pupils to use in class and at home as they develop their news literacy skills.
The NewsWise values act as a reference point throughout the project and define what we believe news should aim to be.
Some news stories can be upsetting or worrying for children, especially when there is also a lot of misinformation about the topic. Discover our guidance on discussing news safely in the classroom.
NewsWise lessons and resources are planned by literacy, PSHE and news literacy experts. We make sure that all of our resources align with the national curricula of all four UK nations.
Visit this page for an overview of the relevant curriculum objectives that NewsWise will help you to meet.
Before your class of brand new journalists can officially graduate from Journalist Training School, we need to put their skills to the test! Our short, online quiz checks their fake news detective skills and asks some more questions about what they've learned along the way.
Click the button below or share this link with your class: bit.ly/pupilpostnw2425
Complete the teacher survey too and you'll get a link to the quiz answers, so you can share these with your class. (We recommend completing the teacher survey shortly before, while, or soon after pupils complete their quiz, so you can share the answers with them in the same lesson.)
We'd love to see your pupils' finished news reports! Email them to us at newswise@theguardianfoundation.org - we might be able to publish them on our website!