2025 Premier's Reading Challenge


PRC student site

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 

2025 Challenge dates
Challenge opens:
Monday 24 February 2025
Challenge closes to students: Friday 22 August 2025
Challenge closes to coordinators: Friday 5 September 2025

Students are unable to log into the PRC website until the PRC opens. Coordinators have a restricted view of the website until the Challenge opens. 
If you need to view a student's reading record, please contact us at 
prc@det.nsw.edu.au and let us know the name and grade of the student/s. 

2024 Challenge details
The challenge has now CLOSED for student entries. If you need to enter books onto a student reading record, please submit a post-challenge validation application can now be submitted for students who do not have a completed 2024 SRR. Information about this process can be found on the Arts Unit website

2025 PRC Posters
Printed posters will be dispatched with Australia Post by Tuesday 2 February, 2025 and will begin arriving in public schools shortly afterwards. All posters are addressed to the school principal. If your school hasn't received their posters by 10 February, please contact us on prc@det.nsw.edu.au

New 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! 

New 2025 PRC Booklists


2024 Premier's Reading Challenge results
Thank you to all our PRC coordinators for your ongoing support of the Challenge in 2024. 

431,383 students across NSW took part in the PRC last year, with a record 323,328 students completing the Challenge.

Students read a combined total of 9,115,211 books - with this year's most read book being Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker. 

Read more, including a breakdown of the most popular books read as part of the NSW PRC, by viewing our 2024 PRC Report.

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.

Sydney Writer's Festival author talks



The 2025 NSW Premier's Reading Challenge is proudly supported by Digital Partner, ePlatform and Supporter, Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA).