The Year 5 student won a family holiday to ‘explore Western Australia’ –
which was the theme of the Challenge – valued at $6000 thanks to QBE Insurance.
Jonathan’s mother, Christine Vagg, said the Challenge encouraged her son’s love of reading.
“Jonathan consumes books. I used to buy them for him but he reads them so quickly it started getting expensive so we’re
now at the library every week now,” she said.
As well as helping Jonathan remember to read every day, Christine said the Challenge also helped Jonathan’s little
brother who had trouble with his speech when he was younger.
“He was able to see Jonathan reading every night before he went to bed and every morning if he woke up early and that
helped him,” she said... more
