CIS Tanjong Kantong Campus are Reader’s Cup Champions!

By Nadine Bailey
(TK Teacher-Librarian)

What is the first question in the library this year? “Ms. Nadine, when does Readers’ Cup start and what are we reading?!”

The buzz is growing again at the Canadian International School’s TK campus in hopes of a repeat of the 2015/6 school year, when much excitement was to be found in the TK library.  Students reading through a pile of books not once, not twice but up to 13 times! And then creating questions and quizzing each other. What was it all about? TK was determined to walk home with one of the Readers’ Cup prizes.  Readers’ Cup is an annual Singapore Inter-school reading competition where teams of six students compete in one of three divisions. To get onto one of the teams, students first had to get through the preliminary round in their school. The questions were in the form of an online socrative quiz, a paper quiz on each book and a long-form essay question on the book.

The hours of reading and hard work paid off when the TK team walked home with first prize in the older readers division. The  “Purple Page Eaters” team: Abigail Bilsand, Vedang Deshpande, Amy Deng, Aidan MacKay, Sonja Lee and Minji Kim, (with reserve player Jasmine Yu) beat 20 other teams from International Schools to come first in their division (and a team from the Lakeside campus also did extremely well, placing third in the same division). Not only did the winning team win the cup, a medal, and a subscription to Epic Books, but all our students in all our teams have won by reading extensively and intensively and it’s showing in the rise in their reading ability!