The School Magazine
The School Magazine is a children’s literary magazine. It provides high-quality texts and learning resources to encourage a lifelong love of reading in primary students and support teachers in the classroom.
What's included
The School Magazine has everything primary teachers need for their English program in one place. Ten issues of the four magazines are published each year.
Diverse and engaging content
Each issue contains a combination of culturally inclusive and diverse stories, articles, plays, persuasive texts, poetry, cartoons and comic serials.
Students can test their comprehension and develop their skills via interactive activities, word puzzles, reading challenges, audio recordings and writing competitions.
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Teacher 1: We love using The School Magazine in our planning for our whole stage because it's just such a great variety. We can have a lot of scope just to be able to link into our other units of work we're doing in literacy and we're able to build those core skills really effectively because of the text types that are in there.
Student 1: My favourite things about The School Magazine would definitely have to be the information articles.
Student 2: I enjoy the puzzles.
Student 3: The narrative stories.
Student 4: The poems and the comics at the back.
Teacher 2: The School Magazine learning resources are aligned to both the NSW Syllabus and the Australian Curriculum. The diversity and the range of resources there is just phenomenal.
Teacher 3: I was already just with using the magazines, blown away and be able now to have access to the digital side of it as well. It just makes the learning so much richer for the students.
Student 4: It's really fun. You can match stuff, you can listen to words, how to spell them.
Student 1: With the interactives, they really forced you to really think about what you'd read in the articles, like to pay attention.
Teacher 3: It is very engaging for students, it's very appealing to them. It's very clear and easy to understand and easy to follow as well. There's just so much about it just that hooks the kids in.
Student 1: The School Magazine is the best magazine you're ever gonna pick up in your primary school years.
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Educational support
Every issue comes with free resources designed by teachers and aligned with the NSW English K–10 Syllabus and Australian Curriculum: English.
Resources include:
- lesson plans with learning intentions and success criteria
- worksheets that incorporate Component A and B from the NSW English K–10 Syllabus
- scope and sequences
- assessment rubrics
- textual concept videos.
A digital subscription allows teachers to filter texts by outcome, assign texts to students and monitor work completed.
Differentiation and accessibility
There are four age levels available, ensuring texts align with the interests and reading levels of different students.
Audio recordings and accessible layouts support diverse learning needs and are compatible with assistive technologies at home or in the classroom. Braille and Large print versions are also available upon request.
Subscribe
Subscribers can choose from print, digital or hybrid subscription models.
Schools can receive 75% off their digital subscription when they order a minimum of 45 print copies each issue. Discounts also apply for remote schools.