Literacy and Numeracy
Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge
The Premiers' Reading Challenge has officially started and everyone at St James is invited to participate! The goal of the Challenge is to foster a love of reading of quality literature.
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 6 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.
Your child's teacher will distribute your child's log in details this week; Prep-2 students will have a sticker in their Reading log books and Year 3-6 student details can be found in their school diary. Please be in touch if you require any assistance.
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
To log into the Challenge go to https://vprc.eduweb.vic.gov.au/home
Go to Student login, then VPRC login and follow the prompts.
The school holidays are a great time to make a start on the challenge!
Book Covering
We have recently purchased some new books including take home decodable books for junior students, decodables for older readers and class sets for teachers to use with small groups. If any parents are able to help with covering these books we would really appreciate it. Please see Louise Matthews or Jo Matarazzo, in the Library.
louise.matthews@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au (Literacy Leader)