2025 Premier's Reading Challenge
Welcome to the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge
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 open to all NSW students in Kindergarten to Year 10, in government, independent, Catholic and home schools. If you need help using the website and the answer cannot be found on the PRC Support site, please contact us at prc@det.nsw.edu.au
The 2025 PRC has been extended
We have extended both the student and coordinator deadlines for public and non-government students to allow additional time for challenge completion.
2025 Challenge Dates
Challenge opens: Monday 24 February 2025
Challenge closes to students: Extended to Friday 19 September 2025 (Week 9, Term 3)
Challenge closes to coordinators: Extended to Friday 26 September 2025 (Week 10, Term 3)
Stay up-to-date with the PRC newsletter
Please refer to your relevant sector's coordinator newsletter for more information:
Non-government schools newsletter
Public schools newsletter
The 2025 PRC is now open!
To celebrate the opening of the PRC, why not:
- Listen to Matt Ottley's composition, Dance of the Jellyfish with your students.
- Use Matt Ottley's composition notes to unpack the artwork and music with your students.
- View the Introduction to the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge video with your students.
- Have students create their very own book jellyfish - follow the video on the PRC instagram page or create your own!
- Visit our Tips and Teaching notes page to find downloadable PowerPoints, bookmarks and newsletter templates.
- Listen to a past author interview held at the Sydney Writer's Festival.
Matt Ottleys music & composer notes
Artist, author and composer Matt Ottley, who created the artwork for the 2025 PRC poster, also composed a piece of music titled to accompany the artwork, titled Dance of the jellyfish. This composition is part of Matt Ottley's Sound of picture books initiative, which is designed to allow audiences to experience literature, art and music linked in a multimodal manner.
Matt Ottley has also generously provided detailed resource notes that unpack the artwork and music. Visit our Tips and Teaching notes page to download these resource notes.
Coordinating the PRC for the first time?Register for our on-demand sessions via Dart Learning. A link to the video will be sent straight to your inbox upon registration.
PRC Posters
Printed posters should have arrived in schools. All posters are addressed to the school principal. If your school hasn't received their posters, please contact us on prc@det.nsw.edu.au
Please note: The PRC team are experiencing a large number of support requests at the moment. Requests may take up to two weeks for us to respond to. Thank you for your patience during this incredibly busy time for our small team.
Non-government student password reset
All non-government student passwords were reset ahead of the 2025 Challenge opening. Non-government coordinators must download these new passwords by Tuesday 4 March 2025. Please view this support article for instructions on accessing student passwords.
Term 1 Booklist update
The Term 1 2025 booklist is now live! Click on the image below, or visit the booklists page to check out the new titles added to the PRC booklists this year!
2024 Sydney Writer's Festival Author Talks
Head backstage with students from Glenfield Public School and Bankstown Girls High School as they interview authors that feature on the PRC booklists! Register for these on-demand talks for free on Dart Learning.
The 2025 NSW Premier's Reading Challenge is proudly supported by Digital Partner, ePlatform and Supporter, Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA).