Congratulations to the students from Belmont Intermediate who are the New Zealand finalists in the Kid's Lit Quiz.
"The Kids' Lit Quiz aims to motivate children and young people to read for pleasure and develop the habit of sustained reading by offering them irresistible reading challenges and enormous fun with a competitive element and great team-building opportunities." It was started in 1991 by Wayne Mills, a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland in the Faculty of Education. In March 2008 he was awarded the New Zealand Margaret Mahy Medal for his substantial and distinguished contribution to both national and international literature and literacy.
The team travel to South Africa in August to compete in the final. Good luck!
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What Kris (rodney libraries) failed to mention in her post was that one of our Rodney teams (Helensville Primary) came third in the evening heat from Auckland and near neighbours Mangawhai Primary also picked up a third placing in one of the Northland heats. That's pretty good going considering the number of teams that were entered so congratulations Helensville and Mangawhai (and to all the other Rodney competitors as well).
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