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Welcome to The School Magazine

The School Magazine is Australia's leading literary magazine for students, with a distinguished 93-year history of providing an engaging, quality reading experience with a strong Australian flavour and absolutely no advertising. 

Each month of the school year The School Magazine's four age-differentiated titles provide a diverse mix of short stories, poems, plays, Indigenous tales, fables, nonfiction articles, puzzles, cartoons and activities, all illustrated by leading Australian artists. With four separate titles for different age and ability levels, The School Magazine caters for children from early independent readers to advanced primary school readers.

Download a sample Countdown story: Yakka, Yip and the Yahoos by Geoffrey McSkimming, illustrated by Kerry Millard (published in Countdown #1 2009)

 Download a sample Blast Off story: Adoption by Jeni Jones, illustrated by Stephen Axelsen (published in Blast Off #4 2009), with accompanying teaching session

Download a sample Orbit story: Greta Bernice: Grammar Police by Katherine Pebley O'Neal, illustrated by Craig Phillips (published in Orbit #3 2009), with accompanying teaching session

 Download a sample Touchdown nonfiction article: The Story of Pompeii by Jonathan Shaw, with accompanying teaching session by Sally Fitzgerald (text published in Touchdown #2 2009)

The Magazine can be used in the classroom, along with the teaching units - now available with every issue of every magazine - as a resource for teaching reading and related literacy across key learning areas. Visit the Teaching Units page for more information.

 Download a sample teaching session based on Yakka, Yip and the Yahoos (session written by Rowena Sierant)

 Making the Most of The School Magazine: the 2009 edition of our Guide for Teachers is now online at this link.

Writers: please visit our contributors page to find out how to submit your work for our 2009 issues, and read our new Do's and Don'ts for Successful Manuscript Submission.

Artists: our eligibility list for 2010 is now open and we are actively seeking expressions of interest for cartoon serials for 2010. Read details on our contributors page.

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