The Week Junior is loved by teachers and pupils in schools across the country. It is used in a multitude of different ways to enhance learning across the curriculum. Here are just a few examples of the innovative ways schools are using The Week Junior with their pupils.
Using The Week Junior in guided reading sessions
St Bede's Junior School in St Helen's have been using The Week Junior articles to reinvigorate their guided reading sessions across KS2.
First World War lesson plan for topic teaching
Emma Espley, an experienced teacher and now freelance author created this lesson plan to use in KS2 looking at new and different aspects of the First World War. For instance did you know that without the First World War we wouldn't have blood banks and mobile X-ray units?
Using news reports to learn about migrants
This lesson uses a recent article in The Week Junior as a stimulus for exploration of a highly topical issue – migration. It targets many aspects of the KS2 programme of study for geography, including place and locational knowledge, human and physical geography and geographical skills.
A non-fiction unit of work for KS2
Joanne Kaye at St Bede's Junior School used a couple of articles as stimuli for a non-fiction unit of work with Years 4, 5 and 6.
Having your say and affecting change
Here is some work that a Year 4 class at St Bede's Junior School took part in based on a report in The Week Junior about David Attenborough's speech in Poland for the People's Seat at a climate-change conference.
What our other readers think...
Mr Marden, Parnell Primary
The Week Junior is a great resource for keeping children abreast of current affairs and supports reading within school.
Isaac, Year 5
I love reading this magazine because of all the interesting things l learn. I particularly like the Science and Technology part so that l can imagine the way things will go in the future.
Jo Denham, Wodensborough Ormiston Academy
The students have loved the magazine and continually ask when the new edition is out.
Carla Gotch, Tennyson Road Primary School
The best thing about The Week Junior is the content, it’s trustworthy, age-appropriate, high-quality current affairs for children.
Mrs James, St Mary and St Andrews Catholic Primary School
Just a quick note to congratulate you on your fantastic magazine. My year 6 class love reading it and get excited every time our bursar brings in the pack containing the latest edition! Some of my boys really dislike reading, yet they enjoy working their way through the articles in The Week Junior. Anything that promotes children's love of reading and is highly educational at the same time is a sure winner. Keep up the great work!
