Aberfoyle Park Campus Resource Centre

Celebrate the National Year of Reading 2012!                                 

Join in with the annual Premier’s Reading Challenge

According to the website, the aim is to:

• Encourage students to read more books and enjoy reading
• Improve literacy levels.
• Raise the profile of reading, libraries and literacy in schools
• Give students a focus on their reading
• Encourage students to read more books and enjoy reading more
• Encourage boys to participate by being ‘challenged’
• Offer incentives for reluctant readers
• Build self-esteem and pride, school unity, and a sense of achievement
• Increase the involvement of parents in their child’s reading
• Increase library borrowing
• Contribute to increased literacy levels.

The Challenge requires students to read 12 books between the beginning of the school year and early September. 

Key Dates:

From 30 January  2012

• 2012 Premier’s Reading Challenge starts
• Schools register online

7 September 2012

• Reading finishes for the 2012 challenge

2 July - 21 September 2012

• Student Reading Records collected
• Data entered in schools – this can begin in schools as of the end of term 2 / beginning of term 3.

November 2012

• By 2 November – awards arrive in schools
• Students awarded certificates and medals at individual school presentations
• Selected schools with students achieving outstanding results attend the Premier’s Reception.

Pilgrim, Thiele and Nativity School have now officially been enrolled in the Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2012. If your child would like to be involved, forms are easily downloaded from the website. http://www.premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/prc/

Whether or not you have visited the website, I would encourage both you and your child to do so. There is a section which allows students to rate their own favourite books and there is also the possibility that the child could win a prize by participating in this section. http://www.premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/prc/pages/books/ratearead/ The information provided on the site is broken down into each of the three groups, R-2, 3-5 and 6-9 and includes various genres, authors and series of books appropriate for each year level. We hope to see even more children involved in 2012.