Aimed at children aged seven to 11, the initiative aims to equip them with the skills and knowledge to engage with news and spot fake stories and reports.
It has been created by NewsWise, a free, cross-curricular news literacy programme for nine to 11-year-olds developed by The Guardian Foundation, the National Literacy Trust and the PSHE Association.
The Happy News Project has already been run with 3,715 children living in areas of disadvantage, and after taking part three-quarters of the pupils were able to tell whether a news story was fake or not.
The project also increased pupils’ willingness to watch, read or listen to the news and they were better able to judge if a news source was trustworthy and reliable.
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