Registrations for the 2023 Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) are now open!
Find out more about the types of registration below:
School registration
A school registration is for Prep to Year 9 students whose participation is managed by a PRC school coordinator on behalf of a school. The PRC school coordinator will:
- register the school and classes participating in the challenge in the PRC database
- delegate a teacher to coordinate each class (if required)
- pass PRC information on to all classroom teachers
- make either a state school reader record form or non-state school reader record form available for each participating student. A consent form has been added to the state school reader record form in 2023. Read below for more information about
consent and third party providers
- assist teachers to collate data from the record forms and enter into the PRC database
- submit student reading achievements from the record forms into the PRC database and preview Certificates of Achievement by Friday 8 September 2023.
When a school and class have been registered by the PRC school coordinator, they can delegate a class to an individual class teacher. Each class teacher will be the main contact for PRC correspondence relating to their allocated class.
Please ensure you read the
school information kit before registering.
Register your school
Individual reader registration
An individual reader is a Prep to Year 9 student who is home-educated or whose school is not participating in the PRC. Before registering as an individual reader, students should ensure that their school is not participating in the challenge. An individual reader registration requires the parent/guardian to be the main contact for all PRC correspondence. Parents/guardians will:
- register their child on the PRC database
- download and assist your child to complete an
individual reader record form
- enter child’s data from their reader record form into the PRC database and preview Certificates of Achievement by Friday 8 September 2023.
Please ensure you read the
individual reader information kit before registering.
Register as an individual reader
Early childhood centre registration
An early childhood centre registration is for early childhood centres and programs and is managed by a PRC coordinator on behalf of a centre.
The PRC coordinator will:
- register the centre to participate in the challenge in the PRC database
- select which week (7 day period) to run the challenge in their centre during the early childhood participation weeks from 14–25 August 2023
- download the
wall chart to tally books
- make an
early childhood record form available. Read below for more information about
consent and third party providers
- pass PRC information on to all room coordinators
- submit reading achievements into the PRC database and preview Certificates of Achievement by Friday 8 September 2023.
Please ensure you read the
early childhood information kit before registering.
Register your early childhood centre
Consent and third party providers
The department, as the PRC organiser, often works with third party providers, which may involve disclosing personal information to those parties.
Due to the high volume of reader entrants in the PRC, the department utilises a third party organisation (Median Technologies Pty Ltd) for collecting the reader entries, printing the individualised certificates and mailing them to schools. This information will be stored securely.
State schools participating in PRC need to receive consent in writing before the department uses or discloses an individual’s personal information or materials to a third party organisation. The consent form is a record of the consent provided.
By completing and returning the state school reader record form and the signed consent form, parents/carers agree to their child/children participating in the PRC and their personal information (their first and last names, year level, class name and school name) to be collected, used and disclosed by the department for the purposes of registering their entry in the PRC and printing and issuing a Certificate of Achievement to their child.
This information is collected and disclosed to Median Technologies and held for a period of one (1) year in their
online database which is based in Australia (using local Microsoft Azure Cloud Services). Any data held by Median Technologies is deleted within one (1) year after the PRC is completed.
Note: Non-state schools and early childhood centres must ensure they comply with any applicable privacy laws when collecting, using and disclosing an individual’s personal information for the PRC. This includes ensuring they have obtained any necessary authorisation or consents from parents/carers of the participants to collect and disclose student personal information via the
online service. If required, non-state schools and early childhood centres may provide their own consent form.