We now have our New Zealand national team - Congratulations to
Awakeri School, a school with a strong Kids' Lit Quiz pedigree, with its 2012 team winning the world final in that year.
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| The 2014 New Zealand national team |
It is not long until the 2014 World Final in
Cornwall. Congratulations to all of the national teams:
Australia:
Canberra Grammar School
Canada:
Royal St George's College, Toronto
New Zealand:
Awakeri School
South Africa -
St John's Preparatory School, Johannesburg
Singapore -
Clementi Primary School
UK -
City of London School for Girls
USA -
Sedgwick Middle School, Connecticut
We are confident that you will all be wonderful ambassadors for your schools and countries in 2014. Good luck to you all (but a little extra luck to the Australian team - with love from your families and friends!)
And with that news, it is time to thank everyone for taking part, helping out and, most of all, reading with us over the last few weeks.
We'll take a break for a couple of weeks before the 2014 World Final. I'll still be checking
my emails so feel free to write in with
comments, book reviews, donations (!!) and other book-related items of
interest. The address is: readingforaustralia@gmail.com
After the jump, there's also some information about our fundraiser which not only helps the Australian team get to the world final but also raises funds for some of Australia's most disadvantaged children.
While we think it is important to celebrate our top readers, we - and the top readers themselves - also want to use this opportunity to focus attention
on one of Australia's more critical literacy needs - those children who
do not have access to literacy resources that many of us take for
granted.
