Manor Gardens Primary School has a chance to reclaim the international Kids’ Lit Quiz after winning its fourth national title.
“He realised the children who read a lot and know their books were not really recognised in schools. Sports children got awards, maths and science students got awards, but readers didn’t, so he invented the quiz which started off in New Zealand and grew to an international competition,” said Manor Gardens teacher Isobel Sobey.
Sobey said the school was proud to keep the national title in KwaZulu-Natal after Westville Senior Primary School won last year, though the international finals didn’t take place as the world was still recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic.Manor Gardens will be participating in the world finals for the fourth time, having won the title as best in the world in 2012. Sobey said they owed their success to their “different” approach to teaching and introducing pupils to reading.
“They read about 400 books in grade 1 at two books a day. Just easy books so they know that books are things you can consume, almost. That’s where it starts. And we’re fortunate to have a school governing body that gives us a budget to buy books so as they grow older there is a lovely library that is full of books, so there is a lot of choice and many genres to choose from,” she said.
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