Where are our Bee champs now?
With over 200,000 registered students since 2021, the Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee turns five in Term 3 when the fun, online Kids News comp opens. Meet our champions and TRY THE BEE
With over 200,000 registered students since 2021, the Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee turns five in Term 3 when the fun, online Kids News comp opens. Meet our champions and TRY THE BEE
Some of Formula 1’s biggest names started their careers burning rubber on the go-karting track and the sport is growing fast in Australia. Find out where you can give karting a red hot go
Is this the most adorable footage ever recorded in the history of sweet animal videos? We think it’s a contender – but you decide. TAKE OUR KIDS NEWS POLL
Australia’s historic Eris rocket launch has been delayed – are its makers on track to become the first space company in history to make orbit on their maiden attempt? Watch this space
Cartoonist Mark Knight draws on the classic western plot of cowboys pulling pistols at dawn to capture the Liberal Party’s leadership vote – but is the female pioneer now on clean up duty?
This tiny cheetah cub survived a traumatic premature birth thanks to an emergency caesarean section. Watch the adorable video of her drinking from a bottle at just two weeks of age
It’s unlikely to happen this year or perhaps ever again, but an AI-generated video has imagined how the Sydney CBD would appear if snow blew through the famously sunny city – SEE THE VIDEO
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Registrations and the School Round open July 21, 2025 – meet the 2024 champions HERE!
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Healthy Harold has been educating Australian students about health and wellbeing for 40 years – he’s also a monthly contributor here at Kids News!
Welcome back – Term 2, here we come! Here’s a reader poll to help us make Kids News an even better free literacy resource for your classrooms. Tell us what you think by taking the poll HERE!
Humanity is a social species and the dream of alien contact may be cause for a big interplanetary party someday … but one team of astronomers is already celebrating – so what have they found?
They look like ordinary adults … but in the dead of night, Australians are forming retail zombie queues in city streets – why is this strange new trend sweeping the country ‘like never before’?
It has become a tradition for the PM Spelling Bee winners to give the Prime Minister a little spelling test of his own, but there was one especially tricky word that Mr Albanese chose to pass on
Two crocodiles in 48 hours were plucked from separate suburbs in Australia’s Top End as the roving young reptiles decided to cool off in a couple of backyard pools – would you take the plunge?
Footage of a sweet little kitten in Vietnam sitting squashed in a see-through cup seems funny at first glance – but is it cute or cruel? SEE THE VIDEO AND TAKE OUR KIDS NEWS POLL
Alone and lost on Kangaroo Island for 529 days, Valerie the miniature dachshund has finally been reunited with her overjoyed owners after winning her rescuers’ hearts WATCH THE VIDEO
Not only are they adorable, these puppies have a special ability to improve the lives of whoever takes them home. Find out what sets them apart and how you can help them help others
Walking to school is a fun way to get your body and brain into gear for a great day of learning – so let’s all arrange with family and friends to join Walk Safely to School Day this Friday 16 May
Healthy Harold loves the changing seasons but many of us feel a bit sluggish and strange once the mercury drops and wet weather arrives – here’s how we can all shine bright throughout the year
Oscar Piastri has won his fourth Grand Prix this year, taking Miami and the world by storm in his bid to be crowned the F1 king as his celebratory dance goes viral WATCH THE VIDEO
The brave boy who helped rescue a grandmother and her grandson from drowning had just earned his surf lifesaving certificate and may receive a state honour for his courage
What started as the construction of an underground rail network has ended in a journey through time after the long-ago home of a prominent Sydneysider was found hidden under the city streets
The excavation of an ancient Pompeii home buried by disaster has helped archaeologists piece together the moment Mount Vesuvius went up in smoke almost 2000 years ago. But what did they find?
It was an unexpected series of events that led the crew of these two Danish slave frigates to abandon ship and steal away. But how did the 600 slaves on board vanish before the ships sank?
Pope Leo XIV’s first words were of peace, as Bishop Robert Prevost became history’s first ever American Holy Father. Here is a translation of his speech, delivered in Italian and one part Spanish