Escape into a world of exciting stories, develop a love for reading and log your activity for a chance to win weekly prizes. This year, the challenge is open to all students from Kindergarten to Year 12.
Sign up and start your reading adventure today!
Register your child for the Premier’s Reading Challenge, where stories come alive, reading becomes a shared joy, and weekly prizes can be won.
The challenge is not just about finishing books – it is about encouraging a love of reading. Plus, weekly prize draws add an exciting twist! Readers who complete the challenge will receive a special certificate of completion signed by the Premier.
Your child could be one of our lucky prize winners! Simply log their reading each week to go into a random draw for the chance to win.
The challenge runs from 23 March to 12 June 2026. To complete the challenge:
- Kindergarten to Year 6 students read 12 or more books
- Year 7 to 12 students read 6 or more books.
Registration opens on 23 February. The 2026 challenge runs from 23 March to 12 June 2026.
Read More About Premier’s Reading Challenge
How to register
Create an account by selecting the ‘Sign up’ option. You won’t be able to log any books until the 2026 challenge starts on 23rd March.
Students can read:
- books
- short stories
- graphic novels
- eBooks
- talking books
- audiobooks
- Poems
- anything that sparks their interest and gets them reading.
Benefits of the challenge
The challenge will:
- encourage students to read more books
- enjoy reading
- improve literacy levels.
- raise the profile of reading and literacy in schools
- give students a focus for their reading
- encourage students to enjoy reading and read more books
- encourage students to participate by being challenged
- offer incentives and prizes for readers
- build self-esteem, pride, school unity and a sense of achievement among students
- increase the involvement of parents in their child’s reading
- increase the number of library books borrowed
- contribute to increased literacy levels.
Prizes for participation
- Students who log their reading each week automatically enter the draw to win a prize. We have more than 200 weekly prizes, including tech gadgets, book vouchers, and e-gift cards.The weekly prizes celebrate students’ efforts in the challenge and encourage them to continue improving their literacy skills and enjoyment of reading. The prizes are drawn at random from students who have logged their books.To be in the draw to win weekly prizes:
- read a book
- log a book
- go in the draw to win!
It is easy, and with 12 weeks of the challenge, there are plenty of chances to win.
FCPS
Forest Crescent PrimaryThe above information is provided by the Forest Crescent Primary School administration and staff to share, inform and celebrate our school community.
