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News for Kids produces a variety of publications every year. These include:
- What's Up, the monthly newspaper for students.
- Mix Magazine. These are periodicals for students that focus on various issues.
- Other publications
Mix Magazine
SYNOPSIS: This issue encourages students to think about peer relationships. The chapters have comic strips followed by question-and-answer sections - a format that is kind to your most reluctant readers. Child Development specialist Dr Mary Cherian uses familiar classroom situations that emerging teens can connect with and interpret for themselves. With topics ranging from new friendships to clique power and undesirable relationships, students are urged to be good to themselves and others by forming strong, healthy relationships at school.
FOR: Primary 4 to Secondary 1.
INCLUDES STORIES ABOUT: The new kid in class • Picking on differences • Easing out of friendships • When it hurts inside • Some jokes are not funny • Alone but not lonely • You CAN be yourself • Saying the first hellos • You don’t have to be friends • A fair chance for all
PLUS: Resources suitable for individual reflection and group discussions
SYNOPSIS: More than ever before, the media dominate the lives of children and teens. The Censorship Review Committee report of 2010 has stressed that it is impossible to shield the young completely from harmful content: promoting media literacy is the way to go. In this volume featuring articles from our popular Media Smart series, MIX magazine alerts youth to common tricks that are used by advertisers and others who wish to influence their target audiences. Since the media aren’t just a threat – they can be fulfilling and fun – this issue will include clever tips readers can use for greater impact when publishing photos, art and written work.
FOR: Primary 6 and secondary students.
INCLUDES STORIES ABOUT: Is what you see what you get? The difference between advertising images and the actual products. • Camera tricks in the news. Photographs show you real things but not everything. • How sponsorship may promote cigarettes, gambling and alcohol. • All that movie stuff: How merchandising makes you part with your money. • TV sound bites don’t say enough: viewers stay in the dark because serious talk gets less air time. • Making the most of internet sources without getting misled. • How to write honestly – without cause hurt.
PLUS: Written exercises, group activities.
This issue was published at the time of the May 2011 General Elections.
SYNOPSIS: It’s a not-to-missed opportunity for citizenship education. We’ll be ready with our pre-election special, helping students understand what this event is all about. Although schoolchildren are too young to vote, it is not too early to explain to them the basic workings of our democratic system and why it’s so important that people make the right choices.
FOR: Primary 4 to Secondary 4.
INCLUDES STORIES ABOUT: How we got the vote: our founding fathers’ struggle for independence from colonial rule. • The election process explained in graphics: the Writ of Election, Nomination Day, Polling Day, the opening of the new Parliament. • The work of a Member of Parliament. • Election art: colours and symbols used by political parties around the world. • Election maths: the different ways that votes are counted around the world. • Dirty tricks: How the election process is subverted in some countries, through ballot stuffing, ghost voters and other tactics. • In school: Mock elections and parliaments.
PLUS: Resources for teachers.
This issue was produced for Racial Harmony Day 2010 and to mark the 60th anniversary of the Maria Hertogh Riots.
It was published with the support of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS), OnePeople.SG and the Community Engagement Programme (CEP).
INCLUDES STORIES ABOUT: A tragedy of errors: the Maria Hertogh story. Could the riots have been prevented? • How can we control feelings of fear, anger and hate? • Weapons of hate: how hate-mongers use words and images to play with people's minds • My weapon of peace: It's called your mind • We shall overcome: stories of how warring communities have risen above their differences to build peace.
In this issue of MIX, we take a closer look at what it means to feel at home. Whether it's skateboarders searching for a place to try their tricks, or senior citizens longing to relive their kampung days, Singaporeans show that finding your own space is all about attitude.
INCLUDES STORIES ABOUT: The school as a second home for students • Excluded/Expelled: Instances about displaced communities around the world • Boom: Playwright Jean Tay talks about what home means to her • Finding spaces like-minded people can call their own • Unusual homes around the world • The GK movement: building homes for the poor.
This was the very first issue of MIX, with a special section on dealing with change.
INCLUDES STORIES ABOUT: Great people who changed the world • Changes we'd like to see, such as the end of world poverty • Slow change vs Speedy change • Zachary John reflects on his rollercoaster life in secondary school.