Library News
Dear Holy Trinity Community,
The Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge (CMRC) is about to start at Holy Trinity for 2024. All children from the ELC to Year 6 have been registered for the challenge.
The challenge is all about student agency and is completely up to individual students if they wish to be involved. The CMRC is simply for fun and to encourage lifelong readers. Individual classes will also nominate to be involved in the challenge.
Holy Trinity has been involved in the CMRC for several years now. It is a popular reading challenge and as a school we usually win some great prizes.
Each child from the ELC to Year 6 is ‘challenged’ to read 30 age-appropriate books over a set time frame of approximately 15 weeks.
The 30 books can be… Fiction or non-fiction, poetry, EBooks, audio books, books on Sora, graphic books, home books and of course library books. As long as the books are age appropriate – not too easy for the older kids and not too hard for the younger kids.
Please note that in 2024 a short book review written after reading a book also counts as a book (attach any reviews to the form that you send in).
As a school we will officially start the challenge Week 10 of this term (but you can include any books read from 12th February onwards).
There will be a display in the hallway near Kinder that keeps track of which child finishes the 30 books and how many books they read over the challenge.
There is also a raffle that runs throughout the challenge. As children finish a CMRC sheet, they return it to the library, get it signed off and then get a raffle ticket. At the conclusion of the challenge prizes are given to each grade level from Scholastic Book Club funds.
At the end of the challenge, I take four great readers to the awards ceremony, morning tea and a shop at Paperchain. Big fun!
Attached is a link to two CMRC challenge sheets – one is just for 30 books to be read of your choice; the other sheet is a challenge to read 30 books with a twist (this challenge looks like great fun).
Please click on the attached link for more information
Happy Days,
Kate Mertz