Primary Seven Olympic Reading Challenge 2012 - The Final!

Congratulations to everyone who has finished the Primary Seven Olympic Reading Challenge! The challenge was to read 11 books from 11 different genres within a set time period. All the titles read had to be new to the readers - no re-reads were allowed. An amazing 54 Primary 7 pupils have completed the challenge this year - a brilliant result. Very well done to everyone, we are so proud of you!


I have been reading along with all the Primary Seven children, managing to complete the last bit of genre reading at the beginning of May. To give readers of our blog an idea of what the P7 pupils have been reading, here is my list of titles and genres as an example. This year, I decided not to read a sports fiction title.

Diamonds Are For Evil by Andrew Fusek Peters, Adventure Stories
The Deadly Fire by Cora Harrison, Historical Stories
Jane Austen: a life by Claire Tomalin, Biography
Skellig by David Almond, Classic Stories
The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong, Animal Stories
Switchers by Kate Thompson, Fantasy Stories
Secret of the Shadows by Cathy MacPhail, Horror Stories
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers, Picture Book
The Voyage of the Arctic Tern by Hugh Montgomery, Poetry
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz, Myths and Legends
Far Rockaway by Charlie Fletcher, My own choice of genre

The certificates look like this one.

Primary Seven Olympic Reading Challenge - the Last Lap

We are nearly there, only one more week to go before the end of the Reading Challenge!

Many of you (about one third of Primary Seven people) have already finished.  About the same number of people have only one more book to go. We are close to the finish line now, let's see if we can all make it over the line by Friday 11th May. This is a Bank Holiday weekend, we all have an extra day to read.  My reading pile is calling me - how is yours?

Please ask in the library if you are a bit stuck for ideas - we can find you a book to enjoy that will also meet the genre requirements.