This year Centenary Heights entered a Year 7/8 team for the regional Readers Cup competition.
With a maximum of five team members allowed, we initially ran a school-level competition for interested students in Year 7 and Year 8. Our highest scoring participants were then selected for the regional team: Shane Christie (8C), Elia Faramand-Khadem (8D), Amalia Gomez Faramand (7D), Hayleigh Mabb (7M), and Abby Willson (7K).
The regional competition required the team to read five books ahead of the big evening:
Detention by Tristan Bancks
Jinxed by Amy McCulloch
Inheritance by Carole Wilkinson
Frogkisser by Garth Nix
Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee.
These books were distributed at the end of Term 1, giving the students approximately eleven weeks to get through and memorise details from all titles. In the lead up to the competition, the team demonstrated particular dedication: regular meetings, a group OneNote to track reading progress and to facilitate practice questions that they devised together.
The regional competition evening occurred on Tuesday 15 June, where students worked together to answer a range of trivia-style questions about the books. Throughout the evening, the dedication to reading was a delight to see: various whispering huddles of students from a range of schools across the region. After five rounds of questions, it was announced that the CHSHS team had won, scoring higher than the other competing secondary teams.
This is a great achievement and a result of their excellent teamwork. The cup will have a proud place in the CHSHS library until the 2022 competition takes place. The CHSHS team will now progress to compete against other regions in the state finals in Brisbane in early September. We wish them all the best.