The NewWise initiative helps pupils aged nine to 11 to question, query and engage with the news and has been designed by the National Literacy Trust, the Guardian Foundation, and the PSHE Association.
The programme has wider benefits, including improving pupils’ civic engagement and using news literacy to boost pupil wellbeing, especially when interacting with upsetting stories such as the war in Ukraine or climate change.
An evaluation of the programme, which has been running now for five years, found that the percentage of pupils who felt they could easily tell whether a news story was trustworthy increased from 31% to 88%.
A participating teacher added: “The news is very scary for children today, and your suggestions on how to teach students strategies for calming down or resolving their news anxiety was right on target.”
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