The Day is an online, whole-school news platform designed to inspire students to read, think and debate with daily news stories, written for three different reading levels.

Designed specifically for schools, the platform can be used with young learners from 5  to 18 and offers a number of features to support teachers across all areas of the curriculum:

• Two daily news stories on topics of significance available at five different reading levels. Each story is written around a central question to encourage debate and comes with glossaries to extend vocabulary, activities to help students develop their own point of view, links to age-appropriate further reading and a live poll.
• A daily infographic plus weekly quizzes, videos and caption competitions to allow pupils to access information and engage with the news in a variety of ways.
• A Weekly Themes Calendar with a year’s worth of assembly presentations linked to the World Citizenship Curriculum.
• A news story translated by native speakers into French, German, Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin every week to support the MFL curriculum.
• Weekly resources to connect set texts from the English syllabus with issues in the news today.
• Access to The Day’s archive of over 5000 resources covering a wide range of topics and curriculum subjects for further research and self-directed study.
• Assessment tools which track engagement, reading proficiency and real-world knowledge across students, classes and year groups, enabling schools to monitor progress and inform targeted interventions across the whole school.

Cost: The Day is available on a subscription basis. Costs are dependent on the number of pupils and the number of reading levels required. Contact The Day for a personalised quote.

About The Day: Founded in 2011 by British journalist Richard Addis, The Day is an independent media company that provides schools with daily, unbiased current affairs and related educational resources to boost literacy, critical thinking, and debate.