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Durban Government School to Represent South Africa in the World Championship Kids Literature Quiz
There’s more than one South African team travelling to New Zealand for a World Championship this year. A couple of months before the Rugby World Cup kicks off, a team of four 12 year olds from Manor Gardens Primary School in Durban will compete against teams from UK, USA, Canada and New Zealand in the Kids Lit Quiz, an international competition which tests the literary knowledge of children between the ages of 10 -13.
To get to the world final, Manor Gardens Primary School had to beat 150 teams from schools all over South Africa in regional finals that took place in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. The competition is open to 10 – 13 year olds from any primary school in South Africa.
In a nail-biting competition, Manor Gardens emerged triumphant, the first time a team from KZN has won the Kids Lit Quiz in the 8 years that South Africa has been taking part. It is also interesting to note that while the majority of teams come from private schools, Manor Gardens is a government school and is the only government school ever to have won a National Kids Lit Quiz final.
Having won the Nationals for KZN, Manor Gardens will now have to search for sponsors and funds to get the team to New Zealand. School librarian, Isobel Sobey commented that, “These children have worked so hard and it would be heart-breaking if we couldn’t raise the funds to get them to the World Finals. We will be asking the Durban community and local businesses to dig deep to assist them with travel expenses so that they can make their school, KZN and South Africa proud”.
Wayne Mills, a university lecturer from New Zealand, came up with the concept twenty years ago. He developed the quiz so that good readers could also be rewarded and have a chance to win glory for their schools, just like the children who are good at sports. The first quiz took place in Hamilton. In that first year 14 teams took part. Today it has grown into a hugely popular annual event spanning four continents. In the UK alone, 400 teams took part in the regional finals this year.
To sponsor the team, please contact Manor Gardens Primary School (a Section 21 company) on 031 261 1401.
SA – The Good News via Manor Gardens Primary School.
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