Teams of voracious readers from Year 5 to Year 9 have recently competed at the Gold Coast regional round of Reader's Cup. This state-wide competition, run by the Queensland branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia, encourages teams of four or five students to read a selection of books and answer quiz questions about them. It's fiercely contested amongst the competitors, and while the competition encourages reading, it also fosters collaboration and teamwork.

On 4 June, the Year 7/8 team competed at Saint Stephen's College. They came 5th out of 15 teams from across Gold Coast schools. The Year 9/10 and Year 5/6 competitions were held on 23 July at Hillcrest Christian College. The Year 5/6 team came 13th overall in a very large competition of 22 teams. The two teams of Year 9 students placed 4th (only four points behind first place!) and 7th from 16 teams.

Congratulations to all our competitors on their commitment to reading some incredible junior and young adult fiction this year.

• Year 5/6 team: George Hu, Maxim Nadezhdin, Oliver Tomlinson, Oliver White, Hugo Whittington.
• Year 7/8 team: Ethan Asquith, Scarlett Fisher, Alyssa Fu, Lucas Liu, Sahishnu Sriram.
• Year 9/10 team: Siena Bulmer, Phoebe Corin, Rose D'Alisa, Caitlyn Howe, Hira Junaid, Sabrina Middleton, Tianlu Shen, Chloe Wang, Seyara Welagedara.

Kelly Whiteway | Head of Library Services