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)

3-10 Bulk update tool
We have received reports that the bulk update tool that cooridnators use to adjust students over to the 3-10 Challenge level is malfunctioning. Our IT team is working on a fix for this. Coordinators can request the PRC team update a student's challenge level in the interim. Please send us a list of the names and grades of any students who are participating in the 3-10 Challenge and we will made this change for you. 

Apologies for the inconvenience. 

Term 2 Booklist update
The Term 2 2025 booklist is now live! 148 new books have been added to the booklists. Click on the image below, or visit the booklists page to check out the new titles added to the PRC booklists this year! 

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

Non-government student password reset. 

All non-government student passwords were reset ahead of the 2025 Challenge opening to enable the rollout of a new password tool for non-government coordinators. Please view this support article for instructions on accessing student passwords.

All reset student passwords needed to be downloaded by April 18 2025. If your school has missed this deadline, please contact the PRC team requesting an extension of the student password files. 

If you are non-government student who participates independently or a homeschooled student, your password has also been reset. Please contact the PRC team for your new password. 

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.

Happy reading!

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 information sessions The links below will take you straight to our recorded sessions. 

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).