Printables just got even better!

We are pleased to introduce NEW upgrades to members on a Printables subscription.

The new resources include weekly assembly packs, based on articles from the latest issue of First News and designed to be used with children in KS1 and KS2, as well as during form time, with KS3 students. A full script is provided, alongside prompts, so the language can be adjusted as required.

Members on a Printables subscription with First News, will receive:

📃 Suitable for KS2+

📃 Brand new, topical, ready to go assembly, every week!

📃 Full script provided.

📃 Includes key visual, music suggestions, discussion questions and ‘back in the classroom’ ideas.

❓ Interactive, online quiz that children will love!

❓ Encourages reading for pleasure and builds cultural capital.

❓ Can be completed as a class, in small groups or individually.

❓ Instant answers and no prep required.

💬 Fortnightly debate.

💬 Designed to work for any level

💬Includes background information, quotes, glossary, questions to consider.

💬 Develop oracy skills, discuss issues that matter to children and encourage children to form and express opinions.

🧩 A crossword featuring 8-10 words from one or two articles in the paper.

🧩 Differentiated two ways – one version has the vocabulary underlined.

📝 Suitable for Level 1: (LKS2 – Years 3/4, age 7-8)

📝 3 x worksheets, differentiated three ways.

📝 Builds key reading skills of retrieval, sequencing, prediction and inference.

📝 Lowest level includes more multiple choice, and easier information to identify.

📝 Includes glossary, and answer sheets for peer/self/teacher marking.

📝 Suitable for Level 2 (UKS2 – Years 5/6, age 9-11)

📝 Worksheet based on one or two articles from the paper, and following a SATs-style format, with 8 questions, covering National Curriculum content domains.

📝 Includes glossary and answer sheet.

📝 Suitable for: Level 3 (LKS3 – Years 7/8, age 11-13, plus high achieving Y6 pupils)

📝 Worksheet usually featuring one long story from the paper, plus 13 questions in three sections: retrieval; inference; analysis of writing / presentation.

📝 Ideal introduction to English Language Paper 2 style questions.

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