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The Premier's Reading Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.

The Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) is available for all NSW students in Kindergarten to Year 9.

The 2023 Challenge kicked off Monday 27 February and closes Friday 18 August (midnight) for students.

For further information please go to https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html where you should be able to find the answers to any questions you may have.

The Challenge involves over 300,000 students from Kindergarten to Year 9 and more than 2100 government, non-government and home schools. The NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge book lists open doors to a rich collection of children’s literature representing a range of books including fiction, non-fiction, picture books, poetry and drama, and include a wide variety of Australian authors.

K-2 students only need to read 30 books while Years 3-9 only need to read 20 between the 27th February and 18th August.  It is a wonderful initiative that I encourage all students to be a part of. Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 students will complete the challenge with their classroom teacher through the books that are read to them on a daily basis.  All other students who would like to participate will need to see Miss Bremner for their login in details.

If you are looking for a new book to read for yourself or an older child, this list is a fabulous resource!

The annual NSW Premier’s Literary Awards honour distinguished achievement by Australian writers. The Awards celebrate Australian creativity and focus national and international attention on our best writers and creative minds. 

Shortlisted and Previous Winners

SORA is our fabulous online library where you will find an enormaous range of e-books, audiobooks and magazines.  All you need to do is download the app onto your device.  Each month they send out book recommendations which I will attach to the newsletter.

If you think the Easter Bunny would like to give your child a book for Easter, here are some fabulous book ideas!

https://mumsgrapevine.com.au/2022/03/easter-books/