Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Reading Superheroes Competition. We received many wonderful, heartwarming and inspirational entries. Each illustrated the powerful impact reading to and with children of all ages has on inspiring a love of reading.
Since 2011 the Reading Superheroes competition has encouraged New Zealand students to acknowledge and reward the teachers, librarians, parents and other reading role models, who inspired them to become readers.
“When I arrived in my year 7 and 8 core class I utterly despised reading in any form, be it fiction or non-fiction; illustrated or not. In a year my teacher did what my 10 year old self would have thought impossible; transformed me into a reading junkie who always had a new book.” Taralee
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Visit again in February 2014 for competition details.
View a selection of entries including the winning student entries on Tumblr.
Winners 2013
Students Division - Junior
Winner
Tiffany Ho, Kristen school, Auckland
Runners up
Robbie Hunter McKintosh, Tahunanui School, Nelson
Rylee Trigg, Albany Primary School, Auckland
Students Division - Senior
Winner
Emerson Hunt, Pinehurst School. Auckland
Runners up
Charlotte Tilley, Karori Normal School, Wellington
Molly Hartley, Feilding High School, Feilding
Reading Superheroes
1. Cheryll Butters, School Librarian, Mosston School
2. Alison Hewitt, School Librarian, Kristen School
3. Emma Gardenier, Olivia’s sister, Karori Normal School
4. Jacob French’s brothers (no names given), Tahunanui School
5. Kasey Hawthorn’s grandma, Albany Primary School
6. Laal Bhullar, Jindh Bhullar’s dad, Turaki Primary School, Taumarunui.
7. Mrs Bee, Totara School Oamaru
8. Veronika Wei, Sophie Wei’s mum, Eastern Hutt School, Lower Hutt
9. Grandma Bonnie, Charlotte Tilley’s grandma, Karori Normal School
10. Cherrie Wood, Lake Brunner School, Principal Sue Gibson, Ahau Street, Minginui Forest
11. Jaydn Rourangi’s dad, Keith St School, Whanganui,
12. Joy Cowley, Weston Cowley’s grandmother, Pinehurst School
13. Grandma Pam, Casey Jone’s grandma, Te Poi School, Matamata
14. Garth Rodda, School Librarian, Whangarei Intermediate 32 Rust Avenue
15. Charlotte Sinclair’s dad, Karori Normal School-
16. Miss Clark (Sandra Clark), Te Poi School
17. Emma Lee’s Dad, Albany Primary School, Auckland
18. Karori Normal School, Wellington
19. Patricia Ave School, Hamilton
20. Tahunanui School, Tahunanui Beach
Winners 2012
Students Division - Junior
Winner
Jock Munro, Moawhango School
Runners-up
Jack Prebble, Fendalton Open air School
Ben Pilgrim, Maungaraki School
Students Division - Senior
Winner
Maddi Prskatwetz, Karori Normal School
Runners-up
Katie Pigou, Sacred Heart Girls College
Jake Lowe, Pukeoware School
Reading Superheroes
Maungaraki School
Flynn Counsell’s Dad, Maungaraki School
Miss Matich, Maungaraki School
Mrs Standich, Maungaraki School
Carol Hapi, Wairoa School
Desna Wallace, Fendalton Open air School
Pukeoware School
Joel Leighton, Brandon Intermediate
Ali Prskatwetz, Karori Normal School
Madeline Ford’s Nana, Omanu Primary School
Molly Beattie (Stella’s sister), Whangaparaoa Primary School
Mr B Robertson, Hikutaia School
Mr Brady, Temuka Primary
Mrs Hamilton, Glenorchy School
Mrs Noble, Saint Kentigern College
Pamela Coleman, Russell School
Mr Philip Reade, Apanui School
Island Bay School Room 8
Sarah Kate Lynch (aunt of Hugo Burns), Kowhai Intermediate
Steve Swarbrick, Lincoln Primary School
Visit our Reading at Home page to download our new Help your Child Become a Reader brochures (available in Māori, Cook Island Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Niuean and Tokelauan) and to find information on helping inspire and encourage children to read at home.