Premier’s Reading Challenge
The Premier’s Reading Challenge is in full swing. Our Churchlands PS students have now collectively read an amazing 1,231 books and that number is growing steadily every day!
Well done to those students that are participating, with 6 weeks remaining there is still plenty of time for those who haven’t registered yet to get involved, increase our school total and join in the fun.
Benefits of the challenge
Reading offers many benefits and the Premier’s Reading Challenge makes it even more exciting! The challenge encourages reading, gives students a goal to work towards and nurtures a lifelong love of books.
Parents play a key role in developing great reading habits. The challenge gives families a fantastic chance to read together. Reading is a wonderful way to unwind, escape to new worlds and discover incredible authors. This challenge is completed at home and is parent led, so please get on board and visit www.premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au to set up an account to join the reading challenge for your chance to win!
National Simultaneous Storytime 2025
National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country.
This year NSS takes place on Wednesday 21 May 2025 at 10.00am and Churchlands PS is taking part.
The National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) book for 2025 is The Truck Cat written by Deborah Frenkel, illustrated by Danny Snell and published by Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing.
The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found. Along with his human, Yacoub, Tinka travels roads wide and narrow, near and distant. But no matter how much they travel, home feels very far away – for both of them. When Tinka and Yacoub are unexpectedly separated, they are determined to find their way back to each other – and, in doing so, might find more than they expected …
“The Truck Cat is a story that’s all about belonging and connection” says the book’s author Deborah Frenkel “so it’s an absolute thrill that this book will connect so many readers through National Simultaneous Storytime in 2025. I’m enormously honoured on Tinka the cat’s behalf!”
