Premier’s Reading Challenge 2025 HAS BEGUN!

Each year at Holy Cross, we participate in the Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC). The Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in

students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge for each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. With hundreds of PRC texts in our Library, the challenge is a great way for our students to enjoy reading and maybe read something they may not normally choose, thus expanding their exposure to different genres.

With support from all our staff, our students complete the Challenge at school:

K-2: 30 books – teachers read Challenge books to students and reading records are entered by me.

Year 3-6: 20 books – students complete and enter their own reading records. Each student records their own Reading Log where they enter ALL books they read – this includes: Library books (both school and public Library), books from home, and books their teachers read to them. At the end of Term 2, there is a dedicated Library lesson on entering their Reading Logs.

The Challenge opened on Monday, 24 February and ends Friday, 22 August 2025.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB

At Holy Cross, we promote the Scholastic Book Club. Each term, your child will bring home a Book Club catalogue. Book Club is a great way for parents to provide their children with popular literature in a variety of genres which aids in encouraging children to read. And they also make great gifts!

Book Club Issue 1 orders are on their way and will be distributed once they arrive.

Book Club Issue 2 catalogues will be sent home soon. These orders will be due by 28 March 2025.

Instructions:

* jump online to order: https://bookclubs.scholastic.com.au/

* if your order is a gift, you can nominate it online as ‘gift’.

* once the orders arrive, all parents are given a courtesy call.

PLEASE NOTE: all orders are done online, the school does not collect cash or cheques.

BOOK COVERERS – THANK YOU!

Thank you to all the wonderful parents and carers who emailed me to go on my book covering list - I truly appreciate the support from you.

If you enjoy covering books in contact (or find it therapeutic) and would love to be on the list, please email me at hchlibrary@dow.catholic.edu.au

LIBRARY LUNCH 1 = CLUB TIME FUN!

Our Library is open every day at Lunch 1 for Lunchtime Clubs where all students are welcome if they wish to attend. Each day has a different Club but they all have one main goal – to have fun!

Happy reading everyone!

Sue Murray
Library Coordinator