Sponsors, Supporters and Friends

The following organisation is proud to sponsor the Premier's Reading Challenge.

The Courier-Mail is a proud sponsor of the Premier's Reading Challenge.

The Courier-Mail has been part of Queensland life for 75 years and is still the prime news and information-gathering force in Queensland. The Headst@rt educational lift out, featured in The Courier-Mail every Tuesday showcases student work and school projects, bringing the latest educational news to students, teachers and the parent community. Through Headst@rt, The Courier-Mail promotes the use of newspapers as a literacy tool in the classroom and aims to inspire students and young adults to form a lifetime habit of reading and learning.

The following organisation is proud to promote the Premier's Reading Challenge.

Rugby League Reads is a proudly supports the Premier's Reading Challenge.

Rugby League Reads is a literacy program that uses the popularity of Rugby League to encourage children to read. It incorporates reading activities for kids, writing competitions and an online children's book club. Rugby League Reads is an initiative of Rugby League's One Community, a community relations program that unites all levels of the game to make a positive difference to people's lives.

For more information on Rugby League Reads, please visit the One Community website, www.rugbyleague.com.au .

Friends of the Premier's Reading Challenge

MS Readathon
June 1 — June 30

The Premier's Reading Challenge Queensland proudly supports the MS Readathon.

MS Australia is encouraging children to have fun reading to change the lives of Australians living with multiple sclerosis (MS) by taking part in the annual MS Readathon.

Each working day five people are diagnosed with MS, a disease that affects the body's central nervous system producing symptoms such as blurred vision, loss of balance, pins and needles and speech difficulties. With no known cause or cure for MS, this annual event has become one of the largest fundraisers for MS Australia.

Each year the MS Readathon inspires children to help people living with MS by collecting sponsorship from family and friends for the books they read in the month of June. All participants who complete receive a Certificate and reading rewards.

Students can participate in the Premier's Reading Challenge and the MS Readathon at the same time. Books read for the Premier's Reading Challenge during the MS Readathon time will count for both programs

Children can register via the MS Readathon website or collect a registration form from their local school or library.

For more information visit www.msreadathon.org.au or call the MS Readathon office on 1300 677 323.

Sponsorship opportunities are still available for the Premier's Reading Challenge in 2008.

If you wish to discuss sponsorship opportunities for the Premier's Reading Challenge and the Department of Education, Training and the Arts, please contact Chris Brandt via email at Christopher.Brandt@deta.qld.gov.au or on telephone (07) 3237 0945.

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