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Premier’s Reading Challenge

Congratulations to the 243 Roselea children who completed this year’s 2023 Premier’s Reading Challenge.

Children who completed the challenge will be receiving a special certificate from the Premier of NSW in recognition of their efforts. This certificate will not come to the school until late Term 4 but will be handed to children upon arrival. Children who have completed 4 challenges in a row will receive a gold certificate and children who have completed seven challenges in a row will receive a platinum certificate.

Children in K-2, who have been at our school for most or all of this year, automatically complete the challenge because they can be read the books – and so many of the books read to them by the teachers and myself are reading challenge books. 3-6 borrow the challenge books from our library, a local library, or read books from home that are in the challenge.

As the challenge officially runs from 1 September until the following August each year, students can complete the challenge before the end of the school year and/or over the summer holidays. If children would like to do this, they may. Children will need to keep a paper list of books they read as they cannot be entered electronically until March of next year. If they would like a challenge recording sheet, they may ask me for a copy.

The rules allow students to read 10 choice books and 20 (K-2) or 10 (3-6) reading challenge books. I suggest children write down each book they read from now. This will help them to complete the 2024 challenge.

Children can easily access the PRC website from their DET portal. There is a tile on the home page that directs them to the PRC.

If you would like more information about the PRC you can login to the site.

The new 2024 information is not uploaded until March 2024, but the website still gives a lot of information about the PRC.