PRC
2024
2024 Challenge details
The 2024 Challenge dates are as follows:
Challenge opens: Monday 26 February 2024
Challenge closes for student entries: Friday 23 August 2024
Challenge closes for coordinator validations: Friday 6 September 2024
Diana Brien: Gregory Hills PS
2023
2023 Challenge dates
Students can inlcude any books read from the end of the 2022 challenge on their 2023 reading record. Key dates for the 2023 challenge are:
27 February 2023 - challenge opens for student entries
Friday 18 August 2023 - challenge closes for student entries
Friday 1 September 2023 - final date for coordinator validations of completed reading records.
Be sure to check the new rules around choice books and series. Your students will be delighted!!
How will you display and promote the PRC in your library in 2024?
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How will you display and promote the PRC in your library in 2023?
Diana Brien: Gregory Hills PS
2023 PRC Record Card (1).pdf2023 PRC Rules.pdf
Read. Grow. Inspire. Flowers for each year level with most popular reads respectively in the petals.
Robbie Glasson: Sussex Inlet PS
I think having the easier PRC reads readily available for them to grab and the increase to 10 choice books is probably most useful in helping most students to see they can complete the log accurately. I also get the first book of a series that is PRC like Bear Grylls or the Tindims and buy 6 copies for guided reading in class and then make sure the rest of the series are on the shelves so the students have already had assistance with the first book and can choose something familiar for independent PRC reading if they enjoyed them in class.
Gina Krohn: Glenfield PS
I've created bookmarks (see left) for each student as they register for the PRC. I'll hand out a new bookmark each week (lol - PRC collectables!). At the end of the PRC, they will put these in our competition box for a name to be drawn to win a voucher for our Book Fair in Week 8. I've also made a display of 3-4 and 5-6 PRC books, including picture books, so students can locate what they want/need easily.
2022
The 2022 Challenge dates are as follows:
Challenge opens: Monday 28 February 2022
Challenge closes for student entries: Friday 19 August 2022
Challenge closes for coordinator validations: Friday 2 September 2022
Thanks Winnie Mak
(and welcome back!)
How do you get Pikachu onto a bus?
You PokeHimOn! For this year’s 2022 NSW PRC, once students complete their challenge, they’ll get a Pokémon card with their photo. There’s one for K-2, 3-4 and 5-6. Gotta read ‘em all!
Harry Potter PRC Completion Cards.pdfSharlene Hall: The Entrance PS
Expected use: Letter to back student's PRC note/invitation to complete
The cards should be made upon completion of the Challenge, with the number of years completed on the front and the book list on the back of the card.
Their image goes in the middle … or what ever they want, maybe image on one side and quote or comment on the other.
2021
2021 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge and The Arts Unit
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 to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.
The Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) is available for all NSW students in Kindergarten to Year 9, in government, independent, Catholic and home schools.
Visit the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge website for more information about the challenge.
Brigitta Gleeson: St Therese's New Lambton
Our beautiful library, sparkling and new
Is stacked with books just waiting for you.
We have tales of many sorts, of all different kinds
Ready to entertain your brilliant young minds.
Stories of wizardry, of sports and pacts,
Colourful books filled with grizzly facts.
Ninja Kids, Wimpy Kids, even Bad Guys
Filled with delights that will often surprise.
So, sign up today, come onboard with the fun
Join the PRC in 2021!
Please use freely, but acknowledge Brigitta for her generosity & creativity
Gillian Cornwell: PRC books found in Epic!
Epic 3 to 4 PRC Books.pdfEpic 5 to 6 PRC Books.pdfPromoting the PRC at your school
Amy Wales: Raymond Terrace PS
I invested in a badge maker a few years ago. Now each student that completes the PRC independently (i.e. K-2 through borrowing) earns a 25mm badge. The badges match the coloured dots we use to designate our PRC titles. So K-2 get gold, 3-4 blue & 5-6 red. I have 3 different metallic papers (sparkly, ribbed and plain) to create the badges, so each year of K-2 their badge is slightly different. The badges are presented at whole school assembly.
I also display the names of students that have completed the Challenge in the library, so they get to be 'famous'! This year will be a 'brick' to create a readers wall - 'Building great readers AT RTPS'.
Annette Gee:
PRC space race on the windows. Rows of 20 stars towards the sun or moon. Kids move along as they register their books. Any class to fully complete gets an icecream day.
Sarah Saz Jenkins: Norfolk Island Central School
I am going to run it like a bingo game. Each square has a type of book, eg. A book about a tree, book with a 3 word title, a chapter book, free choice book. Etc. A full bingo card is a complete PRC challenge. Maybe small prizes for each single line bingo, a sticker, a bookmark etc.
A full bingo card is a completed challenge and there will be stickers and bookmarks for each completed line. I hope others find these resources useful and engaging.
K-2 PRC Bingo.docx3-4 PRC Bingo.docx5-6 PRC Bingo.docx
Kerry McCaffery: PS
This is our tree, I usually put a leaf with the students name on it when they have completed. Looks great as at least 3/4 of the school of 500 completes.
Last year I gave each student who completed the Challenge a key from the tree ('reading is the key') - it worked brilliantly.
I added a gold leaf to the PRC tree last year with the child’s name written on it. I thought of doing apples this year but would still like a small something to give them...a certificate might be ok...but they loved the keys.
Elyse Bryant: Cudgegong Valley PS
I’m doing the ‘down the rabbit hole’ theme. I have 20ft ceilings with rafters so will be having a large tree for the students to have to walk through. Hanging leaf garlands etc and ‘potion’ bottles. We are also holding a mad hatters tea party on the Friday for the students who completed the PRC the previous week. We are gluing tea cups and saucers/teapots together also to hang. The students will be making card crafts characters and teacups as well. Hopefully it will all come together!
Kerry McCaffery: PS
I Finished the PRC TAGS Updated.pdfNarellan Public School
TL Michelle Noble explains how the PRC is organised in her library. See her useful pictures as guides
K-2 PRC - students are all read TO. Each Library lesson a student is chosen at random to select the PRC book for the week from the shelf. Simply recorded on class lists (see photo). A few lessons of reading 2 books and easily reach the 30 books needed for K-2. When it's time to enter the books to the students names, it's easy to copy a list to all of the students in that class.
100% of my students K-2 therefore complete the PRC every year!
*3-6 PRC - students are responsible for recording the books that they have read. Each class has a folder in which their Reading Logs are kept (see photo). Some students also like to take one home. I let them keep it at home/school/both - whatever works for them and I reinforce that THEY are responsible for the list. (Hint - add CLASS to the Reading Log as well as the students name - for WHEN they leave them out of the folder - easier to return them to where they belong!) Having all the Reading Logs together in a class folder makes it easy to do a quick check to see how the students are traveling, eg. - a quarter/half way through, check we are "on track" to finishing in time - good maths lesson too! 😉
Once the PRC is a few weeks in, I allow students to start logging books online, waiting until the students are logging at least 5, avoiding "play" at the computers otherwise!
*PRC books - I got new shelving through my whole Library last year and included a section just to display our PRC books. K-2 at the bottom, 3-4 in the middle and 5-6 at the top - easier for everyone to see them!
Stickers - I buy mine from SYBA and sticker the front AND spine of each book (see photos). I do this so books can live either on their correct location shelf OR the PRC shelf - my monitors 'top up' the PRC shelves when they're looking empty - but it's an easy way for students to browse the regular shelves for titles they would like to read also.
I also add the PRC ID number to the sticker on the front cover using a thin Sharpie (see photo) so it's easy for the students to write this on their Reading Logs.
* I keep class reading logs in file envelopes in their class tray. Students are trained to return them there and they know where to find them. And with the students’ class written on each form, easier to return to its correct tray.
Compilation of videos of NSW Premier's Reading Challenge K-2 titles as read alouds
Finding your PRC lists on Oliver
Kristy Beatton:
NSW PRC K-2 2021 Book List Videos - A Titles.pptxCompilation of videos of NSW Premier's Reading Challenge K-2 titles as read alouds
Get your PRC spine labels and start sticking!
Did you know that these books are freely available from the Gutenberg Children's Bookshelf and are on the PRC booklist?
Louisa May Alcott: Eight Cousins, Jo’s Boys, Little Men, Little Women, Rose in Bloom
JM Barrie: Peter Pan
Frank L Baum : The Wizard of Oz
Margery Williams Bianco: The Velveteen Rabbit
Lewis Carroll: Alice’s adventures in Wonderland
Susan Coolidge : What Katy Did
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows
Charles Kingsley: The Water Babies
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book, Just So Stories
Kim Frederick Marryat: Children of the New Forest
E. Nesbit: Five Children and I, The Railway Children
Anna Sewell : Black Beauty
Johanna Spyri: Heidi
Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped, Treasure Island
Gina Krohn: Glenfield PS
There's so many great ideas for how to promote the PRC, I'm still dithering - and it starts tomorrow! I am thinking of a Release the Reader theme - the students' names are behind bars and as they closer they get to reading their 20 books, they get closer to escaping.
I'd cut out the white space between the bars and thread the student's names through them
Release the Reader.docx
Laura Kate: Putney PS
I've made bookmarks on Canva and printed them on card for Book Week.
I've also guillotined coloured card into strips and used off cuts of patterned paper for the accents.
The book marks have the students' names on them but no date, so they can be re-used the following year or awarded as a completion prize this year.
