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Researchers like Stephen Krashen, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, suggests that for most young readers the best way to become a stronger reader is simply to read more

The weather may have been bleak but not enough to dampen the spirits of a group of excited Lit Club students, fortunate enough to attended this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival

The Ruyton Library has been awarded a prize as part of the OverDrive School Stars Campaign. Within the Library, we use a range of eBooks and eAudio books to provide opportunities to broaden our students’ reading choices in terms of content, convenience and forma

On Monday 30 April, Manal Younus, an Australian based freelance storyteller and performance poet, visited Ruyton. Her powerful presentation of spoken-word poetry, was incredibly well received by Year 9 and Year 5 students

We celebrated another fantastic Book Week. Included in our festivities were competitions, book character parades, author visits and student-created art work. Many thanks to all the parents, grandparents and special friends who tested their literary knowledge by entering this year’s Family Book Week qui

Congratulations to Louise (Year 6) who is collecting the prize for the family Shakespeare Book Week Competition

It was pleasing to see so many entries in our 2015 Book Week competition. Our congratulations are extended to the following winners - Juliet Bland (Year 4), Abigail Richards (Year 6) Leyla Yucel (Year 8)

​The theme of this year’s Children’s Book Council (CBC) Book Week is Connect to reading ~ Reading to connect.

Archimede Fusillo, award-winning author, visited Ruyton on Thursday 24 July to speak to students in Year 7 and Year 9 about the creative writing process.

​The 2012 teen romance novel “Fault in our stars” by John Green has proved to be extraordinarily popular. In fact, Green has sold more than 10.7 million copies of his book worldwide and it has been translated into 47 different languages.