{"id":6834,"date":"2026-06-29T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/?post_type=article&#038;p=6834"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:57:14","slug":"readers-cup","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/article\/readers-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"READERS&#8217; CUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College \u2018bookworms\u2019 have been busy over the last five weeks preparing for the Children\u2019s Book Council of Australia\u2019s annual Readers\u2019 Cup competition. Our four teams competing at Year 7\/8 and Year 9\/10 level, read five novels, and committed to memory details of characters, setting and plot. Teams from all over North Queensland came together at Ryan Catholic College on Monday 15 June to be quizzed by the judges on their recall. This year, there was a total of 62 teams competing, including 29 Year 5\/6 teams, 22 Year 7\/8 teams, and 11 Year 9\/10 teams. Approximately 310 students competed in front of 150 audience members from Townsville, Charters Towers, Bowen and the Burdekin. Our Year 7, Year 9 and Year 10 teams all performed strongly, whilst the Year 8 team came away with the win. Congratulations to our Year 8 Readers\u2019 Cup team &#8211; Evie, Isabelle, Ruby, Liyana and Sanuki &#8211; who took out their division: a fantastic achievement and so well-deserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/article\/readers-cup\/4-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6835\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6835\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/4-1024x738.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/4-1024x738.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/4-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/4-1536x1106.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/4-208x150.jpg 208w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/article\/readers-cup\/aiuq8369\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6836\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6836\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/AIUQ8369-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/AIUQ8369-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/AIUQ8369-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/AIUQ8369-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/AIUQ8369.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/article\/readers-cup\/qdmk7031\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6838\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6838\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/QDMK7031-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/QDMK7031-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/QDMK7031-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/QDMK7031-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/QDMK7031-145x109.jpg 145w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/QDMK7031-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/QDMK7031-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/QDMK7031-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/QDMK7031.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/article\/readers-cup\/rvsr7647\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6839\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6839\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/RVSR7647-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/RVSR7647-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/RVSR7647-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/RVSR7647-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/RVSR7647.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College \u2018bookworms\u2019 have been busy over the last five weeks preparing for the Children\u2019s Book Council of Australia\u2019s annual Readers\u2019 Cup competition. Our four teams competing at Year 7\/8 and Year 9\/10 level, read five novels, and committed to memory details of characters, setting and plot. Teams from all over North Queensland came together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6834","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/6834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=6834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}