First Group Enterprises Ltd is the owner and provider of First News Education products: First News Print Newspaper, First News Digital Newspaper, First News Engage, Engage Pro and Engage Printables. The registered address is 10 London Mews, London, W2 1HY.

The standard contract period for First News Education is one year. Please note that we operate a rolling renewal process. This means we will automatically renew your school’s First News Education package every year. First News Education also offers two or three-year subscriptions.

If you would like to cancel or amend your subscription at the end of your contract period you must notify us by email giving at least 30 days’ notice prior to the end of your contract.

Please note, unless we receive a cancellation notification from you in this time your contract will be automatically renewed for another year and a new invoice will be issued. If you have elected to take a two or three-year contract you are committed to this period and it cannot be cancelled during the course of the subscription. We will automatically renew two and three-year subscriptions for one year as standard. You can upgrade your contract at any point.

Invoices are payable within 30 days. Prices are guaranteed for the duration of your subscription. If you choose to pay by Direct Debit or recurring Card Payment Plan you will be automatically renewed as standard and you will not receive an invoice.

We reserve the right to increase the prices for any subsequent year in line with our own inflationary cost increases. First News incur regular cost increases due to fluctuations in price of paper, distribution and other factors which contribute to the overall cost of producing and supplying the products.

On registering for a subscription, you acknowledge that you have provided First News Education with the correct contact details for the ongoing management of the subscription and for billing purposes. Should any of these contacts leave the establishment it will be your responsibility to update First News Education with new contact details.

Delivery charges within the UK are included in the price of your order. For any delivery outside of the UK, we will charge based on location and weight, and communicate this clearly during the checkout process.

UK copies dispatch from our mailing house every Wednesday using Royal Mail and selected couriers for larger orders. We make every effort to ensure your copies are delivered on Friday, but we are subject to the delivery service in your area and delays may occur. If your copies have failed to arrive by Tuesday – or you have any other problems with delivery – please contact [email protected] In the event of a delay in delivery, we are unable to offer a refund.

In order to rectify any issues with your delivery address please notify [email protected] within 5 working days of a missed delivery.

International subscriber copies will dispatch from our mailing house on a Thursday. Services will vary by country and region, but you should expect to wait between 5-7 working days for your delivery to arrive.

We reserve the right, at our absolute discretion, to cancel printed copies in your subscription if it becomes apparent to us that the postal or courier service in your area is continually failing to deliver to your school address successfully or on time.

Subscribers are prohibited from sharing digital copies, log in credentials and downloadable activities across all First News Education products, with anyone outside of their school. Schools are prohibited to share downloadable PDF copies on public school websites. This is admissible on password protected online classrooms.

For all details related to GDPR, our Privacy Policy can be found at schools.firstnews.co.uk/privacy-policy.

First News TeachKit: Media & Information Literacy

Four-Week School Free Trial – Terms & Conditions

1. Eligibility
   • The TeachKit: Media & Information Literacy free trial (“Free Trial”) is available to UK and international schools .
   • Only one Free Trial per school per academic year (September to August) is permitted. First News reserves the right to refuse or withdraw a Free Trial where eligibility criteria are not met.

2. Registration and Set-Up
   • Upon registering for a school-wide Free Trial, you will receive a confirmation email to the email address provided at sign-up.
   • Please allow up to 36 hours for your Free Trial request to be processed.
   • Once your Free Trial has been activated, you will receive a further email containing instructions on how to create your account and access TeachKit: Media & Information Literacy (“TeachKit: MIL”).

3. Access and Users
   • Access to the Free Trial is provided via a single set of login details issued to the registered account holder via email.
   • Once your account has been created, the registered account holder may invite colleagues from the same school to join the Free Trial and access TeachKit: MIL. You can do this via the Manage My Account area online at https://account.firstnews.co.uk/schools/profile/manage/users
   • It is the school’s responsibility to share these login details internally with as many teachers as required during the Free Trial period. Additional Free Trials will not be issued to individual teachers or to the same school once the Free Trial has commenced or concluded. Access is limited to staff employed by the registered school and must not be shared externally.

4. Free Trial Duration
   • The Free Trial provides access to TeachKit: MIL for four issues of First News.
   • First News is published weekly; however, publication pauses during Christmas, Easter and Summer school holidays.
   • As a result, the Free Trial period may extend beyond four calendar weeks.
   • The Free Trial will end on the day of the publication of the fourth issue included in the trial.

5. Usage Limits During the Free Trial
   • During the Free Trial, the following usage limits apply:
     • Each registered contact may download up to five (5) resources, including lesson plans, slides, teaching packs and parent notes.
     • The primary and secondary Media & Information Literacy frameworks are freely available to all schools and may be downloaded at any time. These frameworks are not part of the Free Trial and are not counted towards the five (5) resource download limit, regardless of whether they were downloaded before or during the Free Trial period.
     • Each registered contact may re-download the same resource multiple times if required.
     • Full schemes of work are not available to download during the Free Trial.
     • Each registered contact may use the customisation tool up to three (3) times during the Free Trial period. You retain access to any customised content that you have created and downloaded.
     • Once the trial has ended you will no longer have access to your dashboard libraries. To continue access, your school will need to purchase a subscription.
   • First News reserves the right to monitor usage and restrict access if usage limits are exceeded or misuse is suspected.

6. Communications
   • During the Free Trial period, First News will contact the registered account holder and any invited users by email to:
     • confirm the start of the Free Trial
     • provide guidance on how to make the most of TeachKit: MIL
     • notify users when the Free Trial is approaching its end
   • These communications form part of the Free Trial service.
   • Where a user has provided consent to receive marketing communications, First News may use the contact details supplied to share information about relevant products, services, features and offers. Users may update their marketing preferences or unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time.

7. End of Free Trial
   • At the end of the Free Trial period, access to TeachKit: Media & Information Literacy will automatically end unless a paid subscription is purchased.
   • There is no obligation to purchase at the end of the Free Trial.

8. Changes and Withdrawal
   • First News reserves the right to amend, suspend or withdraw the Free Trial at any time, or to change these Terms & Conditions, where reasonably necessary.

9. Support
   • For any questions relating to the Free Trial or TeachKit: Media & Information Literacy, please contact: [email protected]

10. Acceptable Use
    • TeachKit: MIL is for educational use only, and content must not be shared, reproduced or redistributed outside the registered school.

11. Data & Account Responsibility
    • Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of login details.
    • First News processes data in line with its Privacy Policy.