New allergy rules in schools and Basic Income
The Week Junior Show
Fun Kids
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This week the team will be talking about some of the news featured in this week’s issue, including the government’s plans for allergy rules in schools in England, a rapping world record and a basic income for artists in Ireland.
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| 0:30.3 | all good bookshops. Hello and welcome to the Week Junior Show. I'm Bex and I'm joined by writers Joe and Eve from the Week Junior, the magazine making sense of the world for 8 to 14 year olds. |
| 0:45.6 | This week, the team will be talking about some of the news featured in this week's issue, including the government's plan for allergy rules in schools in England, a wrapping world record, |
| 0:54.7 | and a basic income for artists in Ireland. Make sure you're listening closely because at the end of |
| 0:59.7 | this episode, we'll be asking you a question about what you've heard, and if you answer it |
| 1:03.4 | correctly, you could win a prize. But more on that later. Now, we are starting to see the first |
| 1:08.5 | signs of spring, and it's got me wondering, what do you like most about spring? Eve, how about you? I would say, I noticed this the other day when I was out for a walk. I love daffodils and the way they just suddenly appear out of nowhere. And it's just like, that's just such a joyful thing to see. And they're so pretty and I love them. They're great. Yeah, I actually saw Daffodil yesterday and I was |
| 1:29.7 | like, oh yeah, you're back. Yeah, yeah, cool. Welcome. Joe, how about you? I really like just going |
| 1:36.9 | for a walk in the countryside on one of those sunny but chilly spring days when it feels like warmth |
| 1:43.0 | is slowly returning and the world's coming back to |
| 1:45.1 | life and I really like seeing baby lambs hopping about as well. I just I just feel like it's a |
| 1:49.8 | really nice, happy time of year. Joe's living in a spring postcard, I think, seeing lambs hopping |
| 1:56.7 | around. I am with you guys, obviously the return of warmer weather, not having to wear my duffel coat, |
| 2:02.3 | being able to wear a lighter jacket, being able to see some snowdrops springing up, |
| 2:07.4 | and of course, the return of Easter eggs in shops, all my favourite things from spring. |
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