FFMPA / Kids News for Schools and Classrooms
Kids news for the classroom
FFMPA Classroom mode turns each week's news into a ready class pack for primary and middle school teachers. It is free during early access and holds no pupil names.
What teachers get each week
A quiz for the big screen
Five questions from that week's stories. Reveal each answer when the class is ready.
A printable worksheet
Questions, a word match, a draw-it box and a writing prompt, with an answer key.
One Big Story to discuss
A topic followed Monday to Friday, with a ten-minute discussion question that has no single right answer.
A Young reporters assignment
Pupils write a headline and a few sentences about something they saw: who did what, and where?
Three reading levels in one class
Every story is available for Explorers (ages 5 to 9), Thinkers (10 to 12) and Navigators (13 to 15), so mixed-ability classes read the same news at the right level. Hand-drawn sketch explainers make hard ideas such as smog, orbits and the greenhouse effect clear in three steps.
Built for pupil privacy
- A teacher creates a class and gets a six-character code.
- Pupils join with the code and a grown-up's PIN. They never type a name, email or birthday.
- Teachers see class totals only, never an individual child.
- Nothing in FFMPA links to other websites, and there is no chat or comment section.
How to start
- Open the app and sign in with your email.
- Tap Play, then Classroom, then "I am a teacher".
- Name your class, pick a reading level and share the code.