Library News

Please don’t forget that all students, K-6, come to the library on Monday for their borrowing and returning.

The library is also opened every 2nd half lunchtime, Monday to Friday, for the students to borrow or return their books.

Welcome to the 2024 Premier's Reading Challenge

What is the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge?

The PRC is a statewide Challenge that encourages students to develop a love of reading for leisure and pleasure and enables them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition, but a challenge to encourage each student to read more, and to read more widely.

All students who complete the challenge and have their reading record validated will receive a certificate signed by the Premier of NSW.

Who can complete?

All children in K-6 are given the opportunity to complete the Premier’s Reading Challenge.

All books in the PRC are selected by a team of experts who select quality literature. In our library PRC books are colour coordinated.

• K-2 books - red sticker
• 3-4 books - green sticker
• 5-6 books - purple stickers
• 7-10 books – blue stickers

Students are encouraged to borrow books from their challenge level but may also borrow other books that are not in the challenge.

To complete the challenge students in K-2 must read, or have read to them 30 x PRC books.

The K-2 teachers and I will read enough books to the students, and I will enter their reading record, so that all K-2 students will receive a certificate at the end of the year.

To complete the challenge students in 3-6 can independently read 20 x PRC books. 10 x books in all the challenges can be ‘choice books’, these are any books not necessarily in the challenge.

3-6 children can read and enter their books immediately on the PRC site. This is an electronic record of the 20 books they read. They can do this during their library lesson or at home as they read books.

How to log PRC books read

There are 2 ways to enter the PRC Site.

1. Google –‘Premier’s Reading Challenge’ and be directed to the site.

2. Log in to your student portal and select either the ‘My School Library’ or ‘PRC’ icon to be directed to the site.

Once on the site students need to

1. Check they are logged on.

2. Select ‘Student Reading Records’ from the left-hand side.

Electronic records close in August and students will receive their official certificate from the Premier at the end of Term 4.

All 3-6 classes are being shown how to log on to the PRC site in their library lesson this week and in coming weeks.

If you would like to know more about the Premier’s Reading Challenge, you can log onto: https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html or come to the library and speak to me – Monday or Tuesday.

Happy Reading!