READER'S+CUP


 * The Reader's Cup competition will be held on May 11, 2010.

The questions will be based on a subset of the 2009 Red Dot book lists.

Details of the competition have yet to be sorted out. A subcommittee meeting will be held in January.**

Below is some preliminary material collected re Reader's Cup, including similar competitions in other regions.

Details on how we might hold an in-house Readers' Cup to choose a team for the National Competition.

Notes from Meeting - 8 May 2008 at UWCSEA
__Present:__ Barbara Philip - TTS, Pam Duncan, Ben Farr & Ali Hughes - AISS, Kate Stanley - OFS, Elaine Fong - GESS, Yvonne Krishnan & Katie Day - UWCSEA, Jan Cox - OFS

__Apologies:__ Jocelyn Holden - OFS, Liz Watt - TTS

__Name of the Event__ - SINGAPORE READER'S CUP __Date__ - 6 March 2009 - possibly at TTS Barbara will maintain the Wiki to keep people informed and source some video footage of past events (I have now sourced these - please contact me if you would like access to these videos). Pam will investigate developing a logo. Open to all interested schools who can field one team (per school - not per campus in the case in multi-campus schools) in each of the following sections. Junior - Born 2000, 2001, 2002 (Year 3 & 4 / Grade 2 & 3) Middle - Born 1999, 1998, 1997 (Year 5 & 6 / Grade 4 & 5) Senior - Born 1996, 1995, 1994 (Year 7 & 8 / Grade 6 & 7)

The competition will be made up of three rounds (Junior, Middle, Senior) each round has 5/6 questions from 5 books. Each team should be 5 students. TLs from interested schools will suggest 2 books for each year level by 13 June. Books should be relatively new...perhaps published in the last 12 months to minimise that chance that students have read them. The final list of 15 books (5 for each section) will be released to all school libraries by 1 September 2008 to enable ordering and processing. Each school should purchase 2 copies of each book for the sections that are entering in the competition.

Schools should register their teams by 1 December 2008 - registration is $50 per team


 * __BOOKS & TITLES MUST NOT BE GIVEN TO THE STUDENTS BEFORE 1 FEBRUARY 2009__** - If schools are holding play-offs to choose a team, they should not intentionally use the titles chosen for the Inter-School Competition.
 * Questions** - each TL will submit 6 Q&As for each book to be collated by the committee prior to the competition
 * Judges** - possibly Shamini Flint, Lynette Thomas, Tim Ramsay

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I would love to have some sort of a meeting to discuss Reader’s Cup. Can I have some expressions of interest please? Would you like to field teams (one team from each school in each level), would you like to be involved in the planning or prefer just to be involved as a participant? Can you tell me what year levels interest you? Once I have this info I will organise a get together. Please let you English Departments know about this as they may wish to be involved. I would like to be sure that we can get 4-5 schools competing at each level. We need to get together to discuss dates, reading lists & the sharing of resources. There has also been interest in adding a 3rd level for students born 1993-1995 taking it into the lower levels of high school

For more detailed information please read this document [|Singapore Readers Cup (2).doc]  These are just some ideas that can be discussed and refined by organisers. Readers Cup is an ** interschool ** competition where __teams of five students__ read set books and then compete in the Readers Cup Challenge where they have to answers a set of questions on each book. The competition is divided into two categories Yr 3 & 4 (Born 1999-2001) and Yr 5 & 6 (Born 1996-1998). Do we include Years 7 & 8? The competitions for Singapore (name) will be held at: All interested should contact Barb Philip.
 * Tanglin Trust School - 6 March 2009**
 * Ideally, minimum 4-5 schools at each level** 

**__Meetings__**
Agendas [|May 08 Meeting.doc]

Minutes May 08 - Please refer to the information above.

Links to similar programs elsewhere
[|Queensland Readers Cup] [|Online Readers Cup] [|Tasmania Readers Cup] Battle of the Books – Hong Kong