I joined Strathpine West State School and Strathpine State School preppies to officially kick off the 2018 Premier’s Reading Challenge. Today Annastacia Palaszczuk MP also announced the recreation of Queensland Ready Reading Program cut by the LNP Newman Government in 2012. We want all children around the state to have a strong foundation in literacy and that’s what the Premier’s Reading Challenge and the Ready Reading Program are all about. We will see up to 3000 reading volunteers, trained by Volunteering Queensland, go into schools across the state to share the love of reading with students. Registrations to become a Ready Reading Volunteer would open from 14 May. Last year we saw more than 156,000 young Queenslanders took part in the Premier’s Reading Challenge, reading more than 2.19 million books. More information on the 2018 Premier’s Reading Challenge is available at www.education.qld.gov.au/schools/readingchallenge/. Registrations to become a Queensland Ready Reading Volunteer: https://volunteeringqld.org.au/ Read More