On Monday, 18 March, eight students went to the 2019 Ipswich heat of the Australian International Kids’ Lit Quiz™. This is a literary quiz which has been running for 28 years. It is open to students in Years 5, 6 and 7. The Kids’ Lit Quiz™ encourages students to read widely for pleasure across genres and authors. The team works collaboratively during the quiz to answer 100 questions in ten categories. The categories are diverse in order to cater for all reading tastes. Book prizes are awarded and there are prizes for the winning team. The Kids’ Lit Quiz™ competition is designed to be huge fun, with an element of competition, personal challenge and reward that is seldom available to children whose passion is reading. The quiz is held in 11 countries on five continents.

OLSCC sent two teams; Team 1 was a group of Year 5/6 students (Loretta Carpenter, Charlise Conn, Lily Mackinlay and Matilda Paffey) and Team 2 was a group of Year 7 students (Nadine Garside, Shannon Larsen, Sam Luck and Brett Young). We set off early on Monday morning to arrive at Ipswich Girls Grammar School for the start of the competition. Both teams did very well with the Year 7 team finishing 7^th and only one point behind in 8^th place, the Year 5/6 team. The Year 5/6 team won round 10 and all received a book prize, Shannon also won a bonus Word Final question and received a cash prize. It was fantastic to see students engaged in so many literary discussions.

A big thank you to Mrs Carpenter and Mr Conn who gave up their time and supported the teams on the day.

Melinda Crow

Year 5/6 Teacher