FYI: For Your Info
Welcome to a world of info for kids! FYI: For Your Info is an award-winning weekly news show from Sky Kids. Broadcast 52 weeks a year, FYI investigates the big issues young people need info on. The show not only puts children in the know but also gives them a platform on which they can be heard. With reports from across the globe, explainers, debates, Fake News or Fact alerts and in-depth reporting, we also get big name interviews – from world leaders to pop and film stars.
This week: FYI episode 245
FYI News Club @ Your School
All resources needed are provided to set up these 30-minute extra-curricular clubs, with no preparation needed by the teachers who run them. There are three simple steps to every FYI News Club.
STEP 1 Watch FYI: watch the current episode of FYI: For Your Info, available here.
STEP 2 FYI News Club Chat: download the accompanying discussion sheet to support your students to discuss the serious, fascinating and silly news items presented in the show. And, to develop their ‘Social Media Savvy’ skills to recognise misinformation with ‘Fake News or Fact?’
STEP 3 FYI Weekly Feedback: Let us know the news stories your FYI News Club want investigated.
Climate Crisis
Six young climate activists from six different continents deliver a powerful message to COP26 about how climate change is already having an impact on their lives.
Mental Health
Films dedicated to mental health and wellbeing, investigating simple ways to deal with the pressures of life.
Includes a series of five films presented by Dr Alex George, the Government’s Youth Mental Health Ambassador, and developed with the Department for Education and Sky Kids.
Lesson resources
Alongside each film there are tie-in educational resources, freely available for all schools, summer schools and Holiday Activities and Food providers.
Kidversation
Kidversation is a series of peer-to-peer short form films based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Our young presenters meet the children who are fighting for their child rights around the world, from the violent favelas of Brazil and the remote villages of Ghana to the refugees making a bid for a better life. Closer to home they meet young green campaigners and disabled children fighting for equal treatment.
Lesson resources
The resources supporting an episode develop understanding of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The steps provided explore the right that each episode focuses on, and give links to more First News reports on this issue. Children will become familiar with their rights and evaluate whether these rights are being met for children across the globe. We will continue to add resources for each episode.
I Don't Get It
Want to know more about how vaccines work, what causes climate change or discover the future of space travel? Watch our series of top-end explainers, using the latest computer graphics to tackle complex issues and news stories for children.
Lesson resources
Activity outlines provided enable discussion of key questions presented in each episode. They give the opportunity to discuss and consider current issues; recognise that personal choices can affect national and global issues; and identify actions we can take. We will continue to add resources for each episode.
Investigates
Investigates is a series of short documentaries that go in depth about such subjects as mental health, animal species threatened with extinction, the coronavirus and children who live in violent cities.