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2022 Premier's Reading Challenge

Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC)

What must I do to complete the Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC)?

To complete the Premier’s Reading Challenge you must read a certain number of books between 28th February, 2022 and 19th August, 2022. Take a look at the table below to discover how many books you are required to read! 

The books you are required to read are listed on the Premier’s Reading Challenge website. You will be able to access the Premier’s Reading Challenge book lists and rules on the following link - https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html

Students in Stages 2 and 3 received their Personal Reading logs, login details and relevant information for the Premier’s Reading Challenge last Friday, Kindergarten and Stage 1 students will receive their Personal Reading logs, login details and relevant information this coming Friday. For students who have participated in the Premier’s Reading Challenge before, your username and password remain the same.

If you have any queries please email me at mholley@arm.catholic.edu.au

Scholastic Book Club

The second issue of Scholastic Book Club is out now! If you wish to order a book from Book Club you may do so online via LOOP, or by sending your order form into school in a sealed, labelled envelope or plastic bag. Don’t forget to include your child’s name on the order form! Please note that Book Club is an optional program and there is no obligation to buy. Orders close this Friday, 18th March. Unfortunately, late orders cannot be accepted. 

2022 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Books

The quest to find the 2022 Book of the Year has begun with The Children’s Book Council of Australia releasing the 2022 Notables List. This list celebrates the contributions made by a wide-range of Australian writers and illustrators to Australian children’s literature. We are very fortunate that we already have some of these titles in our school library and I look forward to sharing some of these books with the students in the coming months. If you wish to view the full list, visit https://cbca.org.au/notables-2022  

Monthly Author Focus

The month of March sees the focus on another two distinguished authors who have a large selection of books in our school library. This month, Mem Fox, is the author being highlighted for Early Stage 1 and Stage 1, whilst, John Flanagan is the focus author for Stages 2 and 3.

Mem Fox

Mem has written 44 children’s books and five non-fiction books for adults, including the best-selling Reading Magic aimed at parents of very young children. She has three more children’s books coming out over the next few years. Her first book Possum Magic, published in 1983, has had sales of over five million copies worldwide. It is still the best-selling children’s picture book in Australia. Where is the Green Sheep? written by Mem Fox won the CBCA Book of the Year: Early Childhood in 2005, and often sells more copies in one year than Possum Magic. Mem Fox was a Hans Christian Andersen ambassador, an honour bestowed by Denmark’s Crown Prince Frederik on 7 March 2005 when he was visiting Australia with his wife, Crown Princess Mary. It is to commemorate the bicentenary of the famous Danish storyteller’s birth. Crown Prince Frederik said this celebration was a ‘worldwide tribute to the imagination and the magic of storytelling’ – something very dear to Mem’s heart. Mem’s latest book (Oct 2021) is Cat Dog. It’s about an alert cat, a dozy dog and a clever little mouse. In 2003 Mem was South Australian of the Year. 

John Flanagan

John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice and Brotherband adventure series have sold more than fifteen million copies worldwide. His books are available in more than one hundred countries, are regularly on the New York Times bestseller list, and have had multiple shortlistings and wins in Australia and overseas.

Lunch Time in the Library

Would you like to find a quiet place to read a book, draw a picture, colour a picture or solve a jigsaw? Then the library is the place to be! Come and join us in the library, second break every Thursday and Friday - I'll see you in the library!

Library Borrowing

Please don’t forget that FRIDAY is Library Day at St Joseph’s and students will require a library bag on that day for the safe transportation of library books between home and school