The Primary Planet is Ireland’s first children’s news magazine. News, sport, music, entertainment, and dare I say, politics are some of the many topics featured in this exciting publication each month. With a readership of over 60,000 children a month,The Primary Planet is connecting with today's readers, tomorrow's leaders!
Aimed at the senior classes, (8 to 12 year olds), The Primary Planet is a children’s monthly newspaper style glossy magazine. It contains 40 pages of fresh, topical and up to date features each month.
The Purpose of The Primary Planet is to bring news, sport and entertainment to children in a language they understand and in a manner they can easily relate to. It also encourages children to read and write for a purpose, providing opportunities for them to contribute to the magazine and engage with our readers. Our website provides a publishing platform for all contributions, as well as a forum for opinion, further reading and multi-media extension.
Children contribute by submitting book reviews, entering the monthly short story competition, writing reports and submitting school news. We also have some budding young journalists that write for The Primary Planet on a regular basis.
For schools, the basic cost is €2 per copy per month. Any orders below 25 incur the cost pf postage and packaging which totals €7.50 per month, while orders of 25+ recieve free postage and packaging. There are 10 issues (Sept – June) The Primary Planet is delivered to schools each month, and is also available in single home subscriptions. The standard price for 10 issues to be delivered to your door is €49.50 (Postage and Packaging included in this)
The Primary Planet (TPP) is three years old and already we are in over 650 primary schools across the country with just over 15,000 copies being produced each month.
The Primary Planet has been very well received as a literacy resource and is promoted as an excellent resource at the Literacy Workshops given to principals.
The Primary Planet works best as a Literacy Resource in class. It is curriculum linked throughout and many homework and classroom work opportunities exist throughout. A free teacher’s hand-out with extra resources comes with TPP each month. It also has a planner/grid which is broken down to –Strand, Strand Unit, Learning Objective and where the article is located in the magazine.
The Primary Planet can also of course be used like any other newspaper or magazine- simply take it out and read it at your leisure.
Don't worry - because we ourselves are teachers, we understand the time constraints - however, although TPP contains material that can easily be used in class, ultimately, it is a children's magazine. It can be read and reread in class, at home or even on the bus. Written specifically for children, the short, varied and interesting articles makes TPP perfect for multi-class and group teaching. The whole idea is that the children now have something they really enjoy reading!
You can subscribe online for home subscriptions. Alternatively, for school subscritions and bulk orders, please phone or email:
Padraig:
Ph: 087 657 9415
Email: padraig@theprimaryplanet.ie
Gerry
Ph: 087 983 3769
Email: gerry@theprimaryplanet.ie
Hi PP,
My kids currently get "the week junior"- I did not realise an Irish kids magazine was available until our teachers pointed us in the direction of the online version. I love them to have the hard copy to read as it doesn't impact on their screen time and they pick it up and leave it down, read bits together and look at pictures for as long as the issue is current. This encourages discussion etc and is just a really refreshing way for them to learn about the world around them. Please let me know if you are offering any reduced price for a hard copy subscription to a private home and if so what might that be. I would much rather subscribe to an Irish magazine and would love to support your organisation especially given the current situation.
Many thanks
Olivia
