Students from grades six and seven across School District 47 showed their enthusiasm for reading at the 13th annual Read for the Top competition. Students faced stiff competition at the event, which was held recently in Evergreen Theatre at Powell River Recreation Complex, and the results were close.
It was, as always, an exciting and loud event as students cheered on their teams in their quest for reading supremacy. Contestants compete by listening to clues and guessing the novels to which the clues refer. The students were asked to read 20 novels that had been assigned to their grade. The moderators, Oceanview Middle School students Jeremy Hopper and Elise Hocking, barely got out a few words before boards were raised and judges had to decide which team would get to respond first. The judges, also from Oceanview, were Clancy Sindlinger, Sharlene Timothy-McGee, Josh Grouchy and Emily White.
The top three winning teams for each grade are:
Grade six: first place Edgehill Elementary School with Jing Zhong, Grace Gould, Warren Turley and Lanai Kovacs; second place Grief Point Elementary School with Zoe Crookshank, Catriona Hopper, Emily White and Jameson Knutson; third place Texada Elementary School with Rowan Ferrie, Raven Cardinal, Ethan Leben and Braeden Mitchell.
Grade seven: first place Assumption School with Eden Head, Christine McPhee and Nicholas Senilov; second place Grief Point with Justin Johansen, Bailey Hollingsworth, Gemma Gordon and Josh Chernoff; third place Edgehill with Parker MacLean, Victoria Ketchum, Kayla Reed and Chloe Elzer.
