2024 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 2024 Challenge is now CLOSED.
If you need to validate a completed reading record, please contact the PRC team. If you need to enter books onto a student reading record, you will need to complete a post-challenge validation application.
2024 PRC Certificates are now available to download.
Instructions on how to download standard Challenge certificates can be found in this article on our support site. Students missing from the standard Challenge certificate report are likely eligible for a Gold or Platinum certificate - refer to Which students are eligible for a milestone award? for more information.
Gold and Platinum certificates and PRC medals are posted to schools. All packages will be lodged with Australia Post by Monday 18 November, with most packages being lodged on Friday 15 November.
PRC Coordinators can request their tracking label number after Monday 18 November by emailing the PRC team. All certificate packages are addressed to the school Principal, so we recommend notifying your front office staff to keep an eye out for this package.
2024 Premier's Reading Challenge results
Thank you to all our PRC coordinators for your ongoing support of the Challenge this year.
431,383 students across NSW took part in the PRC this 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.
Student account redirection
All student accounts will now automatically redirect to the Student Experience site, even if students log into the PRC main site.
Coordinators can share a link to this help guide on logging books on the Student Experience site, or download the PDF on the Tips and Teaching notes page.
New Booklist update
The Term 3 2024 PRC 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!
The 2024 NSW Premier's Reading Challenge is proudly supported by Digital Partner, ePlatform and Supporter, Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA).