Book Week

Book of the Year Awards Shortlist

Please find attached this year's Book of the Year Awards Shortlist from the Children's Book Council of Australia.  Happy reading !

Premiers’ Reading Challenge

The Premiers’ Reading Challenge encourages students to read a set number of books over the year depending on their Challenge level, with their reading efforts recorded online. Picture books, short stories, poems or non-fiction books in any language can be part of the Challenge.

This year’s theme is ‘Explore. Learn. Enjoy’. The challenge ambassador is Melbourne-based author Gabrielle Wang, with the accompanying artwork designed by Shelley Knoll-Miller, a talented Australian illustrator with over 20 years experience as a cartoonist.

Please use this link for more info about the challenge: https://www.vic.gov.au/premiers-reading-challenge. The challenge closes on the 6th of September.

Students login to the online portal and update the books they have read over the course of a few months, with an aim of reading the set amount of books to complete the ‘challenge’. 

Number of books you need to read

Prep to Year 2

1. Number of books: 30
2. Number of books from the Challenge book list: 20 or more

Year 3 to Year 9

1. Number of books: 15
2. Number of books from the Challenge book list: 10 or more

Our teachers have shared logins with students for you to access at home. Happy reading!