Hell Reading Challenge is back for 2025

What is the Hell Reading Challenge?

The HELL Reading Challenge is a well-established programme that has been hugely successful in getting tamariki reading and enjoying the pleasures of stories.

The HELL Reading Challenge is free, and it is so easy! Children read 7 books and record these on the Hell reading challenge form which once completed is exchanged for a pizza wheel in the school library. Children can then exchange their completed wheel for a free 333 kids’ pizza from any HELL store.

How the Reading Challenge works:

• The challenge is open for students in years 1-8

• Students wanting to participate can collect a Hell challenge reading form from the school library.

• Every time they finish a book, they fill in the details of the book on the form. When they have finished seven books, they take the completed form to Mrs Rumble and she will give them a ‘pizza wheel’.

• They write down books once they read and finish the whole book, it is not for books they have already read.

• They can take their completed pizza wheel to any HELL Pizza outlet and

• redeem it for a free 333 Pizza.

• There is no limit on the number of pizza wheels a student can fill up, provided the wheels are stamped and authenticated by a school teacher or librarian.

• But only one wheel can be redeemed per child per visit

• The reading challenge runs for all of 2025

Here are the rules:

• Each pizza wheel is good for one 333 Kids' Pizza from any HELL Pizza outlet

  nationwide

• The wheel must be signed by a teacher/librarian, and stamped with the

  official school stamp

• One pizza per visit per child

• Wheels are non-transferable for money

• Children must redeem their free pizza in person, and before Monday 31

  January 2026.

If you have any queries about the HELL Pizza Reading Challenge, please contact Mrs Rumble via email ; library@cotswold.school.nz