FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. P17 SONIC P16 SOPHIE TURNER P7 ARE WE READY P26 PLAY OUR LIVE REVIEW INTERVIEW FOR TRUMP? FirstNews QUIZ Issue 676 £1.99 31 May – 6 June 2019 TRUSTED NEWS TO MAKE YOUNG PEOPLE THINK NEWS SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT INTERVIEWS PUZZLES COMPETITIONS AND MORE JEREMY HUNT? BORIS JOHNSON? DOMINIC RAAB? ANDREA LEADSOM? MICHAEL GOVE? DOWNLOAD THE FNQ APP NOW! BIGGEST EVER CLIMATE PROTEST BY KIDS P5 THE race has begun to become our next prime minister. WHO WILL BE Theresa May announced she would quit as PM aft er failing to deliver Brexit. She steps down on 7 June but will stay on at Downing Street unti l it’s decided who will take over. But who will it be? OUR NEXT PM? Turn to p11 First News readership is 2,235,888. Source: Opinion Matters 2016. First News is the widest-read of all children’s publications audited in the UK. First News supports children’s charities – see page 16 FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 2. QUICK NEWS FirstNews Issue 676 31 May – 6 June 2019 1. $20 BANKNOTE DELAY 15. BEDTIME STORIES Plans for an American $20 banknote Parents are swapping books for featuring anti-slavery activist Harriet THINGS TO technology when it comes to Tubman have been delayed until 2028. bedtime stories, according to new The current $20 note features former research. The charity BookTrust president – and slave-owner – Andrew surveyed 1,000 parents with Jackson. President Obama announced KNOW AND TELL children under the age of 10. It the redesign in 2016. The official 20 found that more than a quarter of reason given for the delay of the QUICK NEWS TO READ YOURSELF AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS parents use Amazon’s Alexa and new note is that it’s due to “security other apps to tell their children features”. However President Trump a bedtime story. Only 28% of has previously claimed the redesign is parents said they managed to “pure political correctness”. 6. PLASTIC-FREE FEST 10. STORMZY IN SCHOOL find the time to share a story with their children every night. Live Nation has announced plans to Stormzy should be taught in schools 2. PLEA FOR HELP get rid of all single-use plastics at its instead of Mozart, according to the venues and festivals by the year 2021. charity Youth Music. The charity says Bana Alabed, the young Syrian girl The world’s largest concert promoter that music lessons need to be given 16. WICKED AWARDS who was evacuated from Aleppo in a shake-up, to prevent students from looks after lots of events in the UK, The finalists have been announced Syria is urging the world not to forget becoming disengaged and getting into including Reading and Leeds Festivals, for the Wicked Young Writer Awards about the continuing war in her home trouble. It suggests swapping classical Latitude and Download. 2019. The judges, including Cressida country. She tweeted: “The bloodshed music for genres like grime, hip-hop Cowell, Hussain Manawar and in Syria continues. To be honest it feels and electro. so hopeless.” Bana and her family 7. VACCINATION PLEA First News’ editor in chief Nicky Cox, have made a new life in Turkey where shortlisted 120 entries. This year’s Public Health England is urging parents they have been awarded citizenship. 11. DOWNTON MOVIE writing showed that young people to get their children vaccinated for are particularly concerned with measles, mumps and rubella. In the The first trailer for the new Downton climate change and rising levels of first three months of this year, there Abbey movie has been released. It violence in society. The winners will were 231 confirmed cases of measles shows the Crawleys discovering that be announced on Thursday 20 June at and 795 cases of mumps. the king and queen are making a London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre. visit to Downton! The film arrives in Getty 8. JUMBO CAKE cinemas this September. 17. FOSTER PUPPET 3. RARE COIN Lucha the Asian elephant at ZSL TV show Sesame Street has welcomed Whipsnade Zoo got a pretty tasty treat 12. FOND FAREWELL An extremely rare, 200-year-old coin its first ever foster muppet called Karli. for her birthday this year – a cake Author Judith Kerr has died aged 95. is being sold by the Royal Mint – for The young muppet lives with her “for- made by former Great British Bake Off Judith is most famous for her book a whopping £100,000! The gold now” parents, Dalia and Clem. She’s finalist, Richard Burr! The cake, which The Tiger Who Came To Tea. sovereign was created back in 1819 been introduced to the show to offer Burr said was the biggest he’s ever and there are only around ten left in support to foster children and parents. made, was built on a hay base and the world! topped with lots of Lucha’s favourite 13. HOSPITAL SNACKS fruit and vegetable treats, including Three-quarters of food bought in UK 18. JUMP BIKES cucumber and bananas. 4. WW2 DISCOVERY hospitals is unhealthy. Researchers Uber is launching an electric bike found that despite hospitals More than 1,000 homes in London service in London. People can hire promoting healthier eating, medical had to be evacuated when a the electric Jump bikes on Uber’s app staff, patients and visitors tend to suspected World War Two bomb was and cycle around the city. The bikes choose snacks such as crisps, sweets found on a building site. Students at cost £1 to unlock and 12p per minute and cakes instead. Kingston University were also asked to ride. The first trial is taking place to leave. The bomb was destroyed in in Islington. a controlled explosion, carried out by Zoo Whipsnade ZSL 14. BULLIED ACTRESS the armed forces’ specialist Explosive Ordnance Disposal team. British actress and Stranger Things star 19. CARTOON BANNED Millie Bobby Brown has revealed that Alabama Public Television (APT) has bullies forced her to change schools 9. POLL RESULTS refused to broadcast an episode of when she was younger. The 15-year- 5. TRASHBACK the cartoon Arthur, which features a Over the next few decades, our diets old, who is Unicef’s youngest Goodwill In 2018, China stopped taking same-sex wedding. APT said it made are set to change, but while it’s fun Ambassador, was also forced off plastic waste from the UK and the decision because the channel to look ahead, the Soil Association is Twitter by cyberbullies. Millie said she the rest of the world. Since often attracts viewers younger than calling for pupils to eat more healthy wants to “combat the negativity on then, parts of south-east Asia, those Arthur is targeted at. like Malaysia, have taken the and climate-friendly meals now! They social media.” trash, but have quickly been think all schools should bring in a overwhelmed by how much meat-free day once a week. We asked 20. EUROVISION WOES they’re being sent. To stop you: 73% of you said YES, while 27% of The UK got even fewer points than their country from becoming a you said NO. first thought at this year’s Eurovision dumping ground, Malasia is taking “As long as they Song Contest. Michael Rice’s song a stand, and will ship 3,300 tons COMMENT serve insects Getty Bigger Than Us scored 16 points, but of non-recyclable waste back to instead! I’ve now organisers say there was a human the US, UK, Canada and Australia. always wanted to taste an ant” said First News Live! user, moseskwok. error and it actually only got 11. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. FOR INTERNAL SCHOOL USE ONLY. For use on projectors and IWBs. Not to be uploaded to school websites. 3. BIG NEWS FirstNews Issue 676 31 May – 6 June 2019 EDITOR’S COMMENT EU ELECTIONS RESULTS YOUNG people are conti nuing to raise their voices for their planet. If you took part – in any way – in the recent climate demonstrati ons (p5), know that the world is hearing you. Together your voices are stronger, so keep lift ing each other up and championing the future of this planet. G e tt y Climate change is one of the biggest topics in the news right now (there are plenty of stories in this week’s issue) and that’s partly because so many of you are doing what you can to stop climate change in its tracks and protect your planet from a devastati ng future. So keep making noise! G e tt y GOOD WEEK FOR… BRITAIN THE Brexit party was the clear winner in the UK’s European electi ons to choose MORE Britons than ever MEPs, this week. are opti ng for holidays MEPs are Members of the European by editor in chief Nicky Cox in the UK, according to Parliament (rather than MPs, who are a survey by Barclays. Members of the UK Parliament and are Greens may have also been about a vote The banking company voted for in general electi ons). for the climate. Schoolgirl Greta Thunberg’s quizzed 2,006 people and The UK hadn’t been expected to take part in #SchoolStrikeForClimateActi on and protests found that 31% planned the European Electi ons because we voted to by Exti ncti on Rebellion have been making to spend more ti me on leave the EU in the 2016 EU Referendum.