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.

Teachers prepare to strike

UK’s teacher shortage

Jacinda Ardern quits as New Zealand PM

IT’S AN AMAZING WEEK FOR…

Signs of hope at conference

Conservatives criticised for breaking rules

WORD OF THE WEEK • OPTIMISM

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

Sunak’s seatbelt error

Welsh ship is a big puzzle

Rewards for switching off

English town’s war on wee

Tributes to popular Beano artist

Around the world

Should Easter eggs be on sale in January? • Christmas is only just over and Easter eggs are already on sale.

An inventer with a taste for glory • A student has created a water bottle you can eat.

A teacher’s bright future

The fairy tale woodcutter

THEY SAID IT!

Charity highlights species to protect

By-the-wind-sailors whirl into shore

How you can support nature

Keeping cool with snot bubbles

Good week Bad week

Animal of the week • Pine marten

Why does a tiger have stripes?

Remembering the Holocaust • Sharing the stories of those who died and those who survived.

Young people’s stories of the Holocaust

The reason chocolate is so good

Have you tried beans in toast?

Experts discover an ancient Egyptian tomb

Were T. rexes actually quite clever?

The car that can drive like a crab

Photos of the week

Teenagers take national titles

THE WEEK’S WINNERS…

Back on the bike

Speak up for a better internet • For Safer Internet Day, have your say about how life online can be improved.

Tips for digital self-care • Gwen Taylor from Glitch shares tips to look after yourself online.

Safer Internet Day: Have your say

Puss in Boots is back • A lack of lives couldn’t stop this fearless feline from going on a wild adventure.

Three more films that feature kitty heroes

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

FILM CLUB • Karate lessons can be life lessons too.

THIS WEEK’S WATCH LIST

Cave game comeback • Explore an underground world in this new version of one of the first adventure games.

GAME OF THE WEEK

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

5 books set in Scotland • Transport yourself to Scotland’s beautiful forests, highlands, lochs and towns.

The Wildstorm Curse

Eve Wersocki Morris • The Wildstorm Curse author talks about the first story she ever wrote.

READERS RECOMMEND

Kin-Ball

HOW, WHAT, WHERE?

“IT’S EASY TO LEARN”

Draw a portrait a day

Puzzles

Senior Spike gets world record

Sculptor builds big with balloons

Tea-drinking duck terrorises town

Winner Dave’s bin very busy

Editor’s note

CHARITY OF THE WEEK

Imagine a world…

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