Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Syndal South Primary School is excited to be participating. The PRC application offers a range of exciting features including:

access to a library catalogue (including book images and blurbs)
a modern user-friendly interface
rewarding students with badges as challenge milestones are achieved
the option for students to mark books as a favourite, give them a star rating or complete a book review.

The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 17th September 2021.

Children from Foundation to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 6 are challenged to read 15 books.

Students can read more books than the number set for the Challenge and keep adding these to their reading list.

Foundation – Year 2

Number of books: 30

Number of books from the Challenge book list: 20 or more

Year 3 – Year 6

Number of books: 15

Number of books from the Challenge book list: 10 or more

Students can also earn badges as they progress through the Challenge. Your child will get:

Badge 1 – when the first book is marked as finished.
Badge 2 – when 30 per cent of the Challenge target is finished.
Badge 3 – when 60% of the Challenge target is finished.
Badge 4 – when the Challenge target has been met and the Challenge coordinator has verified all the books.

All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers.

Our goal is to have 100% completion rate with every student receiving a certificate. View the booklist below.

Challenge books for 2021

Login details will be sent home with your child by Friday. The link to log in is here, then click on 'VPRC login' (see below).

Enjoy reading!

Helen Freeman

The Rocket

22nd April 2021

Issue 6 · 22 Apr 2021

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