Year 7 Reading Challenge

The Year 7 Reading Challenge has been a huge success this year, with our Year 7 students collectively reading almost 3,000 books!!!

Now in its third year, the library’s annual Reading Challenge asks our Year 7 students to record the books they read over a six-month period and encourages them to read across a range of genres with the aim to establish or maintain a great reading habit and to familiarise themselves with the school library collection.

A huge congratulations to all our students who participated in the challenge. All these students were presented with a certificate early this term, outlining and congratulating them on their contribution to the challenge.

The library also hosted a morning tea to congratulate the finalists from each class, the overall challenge winners and the classes with the greatest participation and collective point-winning. Awards were given, muffins were eaten, and a great sense of achievement and excitement for reading was celebrated by all!

Overall place winners:

To Uyen Dinh - 1st Place (228 books)

Tupochele Nkhoma - 2nd Place and all the genre badges (159 books)

Dean Wang - 3rd Place (142 books)

Juliette Fishlock - “Widest Reader” (97 books earning the most genre badges)

Class finalists:

Jonathan - 7C1 Winner (19 books)

Jaden -7C2 Winner (15 books)

Zaara -7G2 Winner (91 books)

Shlok  - 7G3 Winner (13 books)

Sheza  - 7J1 Winner (44 books)

Harper  - 7J2 Winner (10 books)

Siddharth  - 7J2 Winner (10 books)

Matt  - 7J3 Winner (114 books)

Abby  - 7T1 Winner (36 books)

Zach  - 7T3 Winner (39 books)

Hariram  - 7EALA Winner (58 books)

Alex - 7EALB Winner (14 books)

Saket  - 7EALC Winner (20 books)

Special mention to the students in 7G2 for collectively being the class to collectively read the greatest number of books, and to students in 7EALA for the greatest rate of participation as a class!

Stephanie Ward - Head of Library