A premier challenge

MORE than 50 students at Narre Warren North Primary School received a Premier’s Reading Challenge award recently.
Fifty-two students successfully completed the challenge, and one student read more than 200 books.
Parliamentary Secretary for Education Inga Peulich presented the students with the awards and congratulated principal Connie VanderVoort who provided the direction and leadership at the school.
“Narre Warren North Primary continues to strongly support the Premier’s Reading Challenge as an initiative that helps students to develop strong literacy skills as well as a great love of reading for lifelong enjoyment,” Ms Peulich said.
“This year, the school has nominated enthusiastic students to receive the new Challenge Champion award who have demonstrated to their teachers a love of reading, writing and talking about their favourite books with classmates.
“More parents, more teachers and more librarians are not only supporting the aims of the challenge but are also encouraging a love of reading in children.”
Across Victoria, more than 211,000 students from Preps to Year 10 registered for the Premier’s Reading Challenge. By the time the challenge is finished, those students will have read over 3.8 million books.