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VICTORIAN PREMIERS’ READING CHALLENGE
The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and McKinnon Secondary College is excited to be taking part!
The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 and aims to help young readers develop a lifelong love of reading.
It is not a competition; it is a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 5 September 2025.
Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.
All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers.
This year, the Challenge is celebrating its 20th anniversary with the theme ‘20 years of words and wonder’ and a year of special activities. For details, follow the Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge Facebook
Since it began in 2005, more than 4.5 million young readers have taken part and together read more than 63 million books!
To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklist and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit www.vic.gov.au/premiers-reading-challenge
You can also contact our school’s Challenge coordinator at library-team@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au with any questions.
VICTORIAN PREMIERS’ READING CHALLENGE – STUDENT LOGINS
Students in Years 7-9 should have received their login details to participate in the reading challenge.
Students in Years 10-12 who would like to participate are to contact the Challenge coordinator who provide students with their login details.
Challenge coordinator: library-team@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
BOOK OF THE WEEK
Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson
Page Whittaker has always been an outcast. She's too smart, too quiet and too weird. And after the deadly incident that destroyed her only friendship at her old school, she needs a fresh start. Agathion College is everything Page has ever wanted: a safe haven of wood-panelled halls and dusty books, on a remote Scottish moor. Page doesn't know it yet, but her perfect new school has a crooked foundation, rooted in an ancient clandestine society and dark secrets. Perfect for fans of Lynette Noni and Leigh Bardugo. A wonderfully captivating dark academia fantasy from the award-winning author of A Hunger of Thorns and Deep is the Fen. For readers 13+
Happy reading and enjoy the break!
Janene Watson
Resource Centre Manager