The Week Junior

The Week Junior is a brilliant current affairs magazine for children aged between 8 and 14. It’s filled with fascinating stories and information, written to engage curious young minds and encourage them to explore and understand the world around them.

Coal mine protests in Germany

Clampdown on UK protests

New religious centre announced in Jordan

IT’S AN AMAZING WEEK FOR…

Ozone layer continues to mend

Single-use plastic to be banned

WORD OF THE WEEK • OZONE

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

Kenya’s plastic bag ban

Children’s word of the year

Stick skeleton in Cornwall

Seal pups’ record numbers

Court rules out wild camping

Around the world

Should everyone study maths until 18? • The Prime Minister wants young people to keep learning maths.

Brave Ravi has a dream for all • Ravi Adelekan shares his very special campaign.

A professional puzzler

The pair saving pianos

THEY SAID IT!

Stream “rewiggled” to help wildlife

Yew trees remain green in midwinter

How beavers rewild rivers

Gibbons can sing duets

Good week Bad week

Animal of the week • Anole lizard

Why are snakes so flexible?

Celebrating 160 years of the Tube • Dig up the story of the world’s oldest underground railway.

Three remarkable underground systems

Poo bank will preserve good bacteria

Endangered parrot’s strange gut

Body models that represent real people

Space launch from Cornwall fails

U-Scan analyses wee from inside the toilet

Photos of the week

Desert delight for Dakar drivers

THE WEEK’S WINNERS…

Fast figures

The joy of colour • Surrounding yourself with your favourite colours can boost your wellbeing.

What is colour?

Mood and colour

It’s Burns Night time • Celebrate Scotland’s beloved poet.

Three famous poems by Robert Burns

Prince Harry’s book is a bestseller

FILM CLUB • Discover a world of spirits and sorcery.

THIS WEEK’S WATCH LIST

Brick day games • The best games, sites and apps for International Lego Day.

SITE OF THE WEEK

APP OF THE WEEK

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

5 marvellous new books to enjoy • This New Year brought lots of new reads, so we’ve rounded up some of the best.

All About Lunar New Year

Kevin Tsang • The author and Lunar New Year expert tells us how he celebrates the festival.

READERS RECOMMEND

Curling

HOW, WHAT, WHERE?

“I WON A CURLING PRIZE”

Create cute bunny baubles

Puzzles

Super-sized snack discovered

An incredible colour-changing car

Seal finds his “branch of Waitrose”

Robo-barista taking over

Editor’s note

CHARITY OF THE WEEK

Serene sewing

Hugh Porter 1969–2023

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Teacher OF THE WEEK

POPJAM

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Quiz of the week

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