Primary School Newspaper

Design your personal primary school newspaper

Creating your own newspaper with your primary school class is the perfect insight into the life of a real editor. Framing headlines, writing newspaper articles, taking photos, designing layouts. With a self-made primary school newspaper, children quickly learn what matters in the media world and what it means to take responsibility.

With our online programme, designing your primary school newspaper is very easy. You don't need any printing or design knowledge. Start to insert your own reports and pictures into the template. The sample pages are full of ideas and examples that you can use as a guide. If you don't like a page, you can either redesign it or remove it completely. Here you are the newspaper maker! All objects can be moved, exchanged or deleted. Exactly as you like!

The programme is also suitable for students in younger classes who are just learning to read and write. All the functions are child's play to use. After just a few minutes, pupils are familiar with the online construction kit. They will handle the template and make designs as if they have never done anything else. Just open the online designer and click your way through the pages.

Create a school newspaper with your primary school class - topics & ideas

Here you will find original ideas for your primary school newspaper. Get inspired and fill the template with your own topics and content. It’s quick and easy.

• Profiles for primary school pupils: Profiles are very popular in school newspapers for primary schools. Each pupil is given the opportunity to introduce themselves in a few lines and to list their most important characteristics. Nickname, place of residence, eye colour, hobbies, talents, and so on.
• What do I want to be when I grow up....: Fireman, pilot, vet - let the primary school pupils tell you about their dream jobs. If you keep your primary school newspaper long enough, you can compare the ideas from childhood with the present. Maybe one or the other career wish came true?
• Book, game and film reviews: Let the pupils talk about their favourite books, films and video games. Whether it's Harry Potter, Star Wars or Super Mario Kart. Pupils will learn to write short descriptions and express their personal opinions.
• Photo competition: Photo competitions are the best way to involve all children in the creation of the primary school newspaper. Choose a theme or photo task for each pupil to complete. A selfie in the classroom, a photo with their best friends, a beautiful snapshot from nature. Then you can collect all the photos and put them in the template in form of a fancy collage.
• Jokes from the playground
: Creating your own newspaper for primary school should be fun. On an extra page you can write down the funniest jokes from the playground.
• Class trip: Where did the last class trip go? What were the best places? Which activity was particularly fun? Reports about class and school trips are the perfect occasion to motivate students to write.

Your individual primary school newspaper

Designing and printing a primary school newspaper is a unique experience that pupils will keep in pleasant memory forever. Whether as a memory of their time in primary school or as a gift for parents and grandparents. A self-made newspaper with individual texts and pictures is an extraordinary print product that you will enjoy looking at again and again, even after many years. On top of that, a school newspaper for primary school is a creative project from which pupils can acquire many media skills:

• Writing: It is never too early to practise the correct use of language and words. When writing, students learn to choose the right phrasing and to structure a text in a meaningful way.
• Correcting texts: Writing and correcting belong closely together in a newspaper. Newspapers are only printed when a proofreader has read the articles beforehand and meticulously eliminated all mistakes.
• Taking & editing photos: Taking photos also needs to be learned. An eye for the correct angle and right distance is as much a part of a photographer’s skill set as a feeling for the best moment. Afterwards you can edit the pictures directly in our online designer. Choose the right crop and refine them with additional filters and effects.
• Researching topics: Every successful article or report is based on an excellent research. Show children in your primary school how to research carefully and conscientiously: Which sources are more reputable than others? How do you organise the quantity of information? A primary school newspaper is an field of experimentation where pupils can learn different research techniques.
• Design basics: What font size should the headlines have? Should the text be single-column or multi-column? In which arrangement do the photos look most impressive? Design questions are more important today than ever before. Content can only be truly convincing if it is attractively designed and directs the reader's eye to the essential content and messages. Our online programme is the perfect tool to try out new design ideas. All objects can be moved flexibly in the template and placed in the desired position.

Print your primary school newspaper

We print your school newspaper for primary schools in any quantity, starting from a mini-edition as small as 1 copy. Whether 1 newspaper to show in class, 25 newspapers for all classmates or 500 newspapers for the entire primary school. After designing, simply check the print preview and add your newspaper to the shopping cart. Here you can specify your exact order quantity as well as your delivery address and payment method.