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Thanks for taking the time to look at Kiwi Kids News.
Kiwi Kids News is a free, child-friendly news website for students, teachers, and schools across New Zealand.
With engaging articles, real-world topics, and easy-to-read content, Kiwi Kids News helps teachers support literacy while keeping students informed about the world around them.
Key Links for Teachers
Kiwi Kids News provides news articles written especially for children.
Our stories cover topics such as science, technology, sport, New Zealand news, and global current events.
Articles are designed to be clear, engaging, and accessible for young readers.
Schools that subscribe can access:
- Weekly News Quiz every Friday
- Feature Article every Wednesday
- Literacy Booklet once each term
How to USE KIWI KIDS NEWS
How to access premium content
how to navigate the main page
how to read an article
how to use the main menu
How teachers CAN use Kiwi Kids News?
Support literacy
Use articles to build vocabulary, comprehension, and understanding of nonfiction texts.
Explore current events
Help students engage with local, national, and international stories in an age-appropriate way.
Spark thinking
Use articles, quizzes, and discussion points to encourage creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking.
Our Websites
Kiwi Kids News Questions
Where can i Find Kiwi Kids News?
The Kiwi Kids News website can be viewed at the following web addresses – www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz
What content is on the Kiwi Kids News website?
Kiwi Kids News is a news website that is updated daily during term time. Each day we upload 4 or 5 student friendly news articles onto the site. Articles are organised under NATIONAL, WORLD, SPORT and ODD STUFF categories.
The Kiwi Kids News website is free for people to use.
However, for students to access all news content, the weekly quiz, our weekly feature article and our literacy booklet, students must have a password.
How do students, teachers and whanau login?
Most of the Kiwi Kids News site is available for anyone to view.
However, access is restricted for some of our articles, our Weekly Quiz, the Feature Article, and Literacy Booklet.
When students come to one of these pages they will be asked to put in their username and password. This will look like the image below.
How can Kiwi Kids News be used in the classroom?
This website is designed to be used within the classroom.
Teachers can rely on Kiwi Kids News to be a safe website to bring up on a projector or computer screen.
Each article is accompanied by some educational tasks. These appear below the article page.
How much does Kiwi Kids News cost?
The Kiwi Kids Quiz goes live onto the website on Friday mornings at 8:30am.
All schools that sign up will also have access to a paper copy and a Kahoot version of the test. This is emailed out on Thursday evening.
Each weekly quiz has 10 questions. At the end of each term, we produce a Term Quiz with 30 questions and this comes out in Week 9. The Super Quiz at the end of Term 4 has 60 questions.
Teachers can also download the quiz on a Thursday evening from the Teacher Download Page.
Kiwi Kids News is a free resource for schools and teachers to use. This means at any time the website can be accessed by students and teachers and used as they see fit.
However, we restrict areas of the website to those schools that have paid the yearly subscription fee. Restricted areas include the Kiwi Kids Quiz, the weekly Feature Article, and the Literacy Booklet. Some news articles are also restricted
The Kiwi Kids Quiz is a weekly news quiz of 10 questions that comes out on a Friday. Students can complete this online, via Kahoot, or use the WORD document that is sent to teachers on a Thursday evening.
The Weekly Feature Article is an article based around a topical issue. It is often provocative and designed to make students think.
Our Literacy Booklet is a term booklet with weekly tasks for students to complete. We provide detailed instructions each week to help students complete their homework.
Our subscriptions are based on the size of your school.
Home Subscription – $39 / Individual Subscription – $69 / School 0-100 students – $139 / School 101-500 students – $189 / School 500+ students – $229
The Kiwi Kids Quiz
The Kiwi Kids Quiz goes live onto the website on Friday mornings at 8:30am.
All schools that sign up will also have access to a paper copy and a Kahoot version of the test. This is emailed out on Thursday evening.
Each weekly quiz has 10 questions. At the end of each term, we produce a Term Quiz with 30 questions and this comes out in Week 9. The Super Quiz at the end of Term 4 has 60 questions.
Teachers can also download the quiz on a Thursday evening from the Teacher Download Page.
The Literacy Booklet
The Kiwi Kids Quiz goes live onto the website on Friday mornings at 8:30am.
All schools that sign up will also have access to a paper copy and a Kahoot version of the test. This is emailed out on Thursday evening.
Each weekly quiz has 10 questions. At the end of each term, we produce a Term Quiz with 30 questions and this comes out in Week 9. The Super Quiz at the end of Term 4 has 60 questions.
Teachers can also download the quiz on a Thursday evening from the Teacher Download Page.
What is Kiwi Kids News Feature Article?
Schools that sign up to the Kiwi Kids News website get access to the Weekly Feature Article.
The weekly article is designed to create debate within your class or get your students thinking creatively about the topic. Opinions expressed in the article are not necessarily the views of the staff at Kiwi Kids News.
Included with each article are questions that students can answer.
The article goes live on the website on Wednesday mornings at 8:30am.
Where do Teachers Download the Quiz and Literacy Booklet?
Teachers download the Kiwi Kids Quiz and the Literacy Booklet from the Teacher Download Page. This page is updated every Thursday night and is the key place to get information for your students.
The Download Page can be found here – Downloads for Teachers – Kiwi Kids News .
Teachers can also access this area by clicking on the TEACHER DOWNLOAD banner on the front page of the website.
To access this page you will need the Teacher Downloads password which is emailed out in your Welcome Email.
