HIP-FINCO Reads: Reading Challenge 2025
Theme: Reading Quest
The “Reading Quest” challenge is a fun and creative way to encourage students to read more and to demonstrate their understanding of texts through scrapbooking. Take this opportunity to:
- Encourage students to explore different types of books and genres.
- Foster independent reading skills, empowering students to choose and engage with books on their own.
- Offer a way for students to express ideas creatively by making scrapbooks.
Submit by 11.59pm on 18 November 2025!
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Deadline
Entries must be submitted by 18 November 2025, 11.59PM.
To submit your entry offline, download the entry form and send your completed entry to [email protected]
with the subject title: Name_School Name.
Eligibility
Open to HIP-FINCO Reads schools from the 2025/2026 cohort only
Submission
Each HIP-FINCO Reads school can submit up to two scrapbook entries only.
To submit two scrapbooks, you’ll need to fill out two separate forms—one for each entry.
How does the challenge work?
Scrapbook Samples
Book Prompts and Tasks
| Book Prompt | Task | |
| 1 | A book with a villain | What is the villain’s secret weakness? Suggest one thing that could turn them into a helpful person. |
| 2 | A book with an unusual setting | What are the three most important things a person would need to survive or be happy in that unusual place? |
| 3 | A book with a superhero | Create a new superhero with your chosen superpower. Explain how this new superhero can work with the superhero in the book to fight crime. |
| 4 | A book set in another country | Make a page like a small travel brochure about the place in the book. Include what you can see or do there. |
| 5 | A book with a magical element | Draw yourself using one magical power (from the book or your own idea). Tell us two good things the magic does and two bad things that happen if it’s overused. |
| 6 | A book about friendship | Tell us about your best friend. Explain how your best friend is similar to or different from the character in the book. |
| 7 | A book about overcoming a challenge | Think of one real challenge you have faced and make a page that shows what the challenge was. Describe one lesson from the book that could help you in real life. |
| 8 | A book with a happy ending | If you could change the ending, what would happen? |
| 9 | A non-fiction Book | Tell us three things you have learned from the book. |
| 10 | A short novel | What is the main character’s biggest challenge or fear? Create a badge with a key quote about challenge or fear. |
| 11 | A book with a talking object or creature | Create a page showing what the object or creature might tell you if it were real. |
Prizes
All participating students will receive an e-Certificate!
