LIBRARY NEWS
Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge
Wow - how are we already halfway through Term 1?. Every year, tens of thousands of students across the ACT participate in the Chief Minister’ Reading Challenge. The Challenge aspires to allow every young person in the ACT to discover the joy reading can bring.
Sts Peter and Paul Primary is proud to have every child registered in the Challenge again this year! To complete the challenge, students need to read 30 books within the timeframe. The 30 books can be from class reading and individual reading. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry, EBooks (including on SORA), audio books, graphic books, home books and of course library books. As long as the books are age appropriate! Students can read the books themselves, listen to an adult or older sibling read to them, listen to an audio book or read a book online.
The challenge runs from Monday 14th February to Friday 19th August. Winning schools will be invited to the National Library of Australia to receive their School Awards. Students who successfully complete the CMRC will receive an individual award as well. When the challenge has finished I will hand out raffle tickets to those that have participated and prizes are given to each grade level from our book club funds. There will also be class prizes for the classes who have everyone participate! The Challenge is also grateful for the support of the event sponsor, Paperchain Bookstore-Manuka.
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Whole Class Participation (completed during school time) |
Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 |
Class Teachers will keep a record of books read |
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Student individual record sheets |
Year 3/4 , Year 5 & Year 6 |
Online recording sheets via Library Google Classrooms (students will be/have been shown how to access their sheets |
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What can Parents do to help your child participate? |
Kinder-Year 2 Parents Continue to read at home to your child/ren to help foster a love of reading |
Year 3-6 Parents Check in with your child/ren to ask them what they are reading. Remind your child/ren to fill in their online record sheet as they finish each book. |
Reading at home is also a wonderful way to inspire your child/ren to pick up a book! Just 20 minutes a day can make a big difference.
Happy reading!
Mrs Basedow
