Learning and Teaching

World Maths Day & The Premier's Reading Challenge

The world’s largest online mathematics competition returns on 26 March 2025, bringing together over 10 million students from 150+ countries to connect and compete, getting a chance to win fantastic prizes!

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Students at St. Justin's have been registered for free access to Mathletics. On World Maths Day, students worldwide can log in to Mathletics to complete 20 x 60-second live maths games. They’ll earn 1 point for each correct answer, with their scores proudly displayed on the World Maths Day platform. ​

 

In line with this year’s, Maths for Everyone theme, every student can shine, helping to break down barriers, build confidence and inspire learners of all backgrounds and abilities. ​

Laura Leung

Learning and Teaching

 

 

UPDATE ON THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S READING CHALLENGE:

Apologies for the delay in receiving usernames and passwords. There were some difficulties with uploading all of our students onto the challenge website in order to register, however we have received contact from the coordinators and all has been resolved. Passwords will be sent out on Monday 24th. Please refer to the video that was uploaded onto Seesaw on how to navigate the student dashboard and allocate challenge books. You may also like to choose some of the books from the challenge list over the weekend in preparation for Monday. Thank you for your patience.

 

The Premier's Reading Challenge has commenced and all students from Prep to Year 6 are invited to participate. The challenge encourages students to read a set number of books over the year and record their efforts online. Students in Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 can read books by themselves or with someone else.

 

Prep - 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

 

Most of the books you read should be from the Challenge book lists. The rest can be any book you choose. You can read books on the book list for your year level or a level above and they'll count towards your Challenge total. You can read a book from a level below your year level if your teacher agrees. You still need to read the number of books for your year level to meet the Challenge.

Your child will be given their own unique username and password, which they can use to login to their account. Go to Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge, login as a student and then choose VPRC login. This will take students to their dashboard. 

 

A tutorial about how to use the Dashboard and enter the books they have read will be uploaded to Seesaw, for any families who are unfamiliar with the challenge.

 

Certificates will be given out for those students who meet the challenge requirements. Please join in as we aim to promote and inspire a love of reading for our students.

 

Mrs. Jessica Wickens

Literacy Leader