|
Congratulations to the Queensland 'Simpson Prize' winner, Oliver Kersnovski from Kingaroy State High School, and the Queensland runner-up, Stephanie Ferguson from St Stephens College, Coomera.
TOPIC
To what extent was Simpson a hero? How have his heroic qualities been demonstrated by other Australians since 1915? In your response you should aim to give equal attention to each question.
(Responses can be either a 900–1200 word essay or a 15-minute audio/visual presentation)
All the State winners and two teachers travel to the Western Front for the April 2008 ANZAC day services.
Thank you for entering the 2008 Simpson Prize. The list of State winners, runners-up and teacher chaperones can be viewed at http://mediacentre.dewr.gov.au/mediacentre/Gillard/Releases/YoungSimpsonPrizeWinnersAnnounced.htm |
|
|
|
|
| 2008 National History Challenge |
|
|
The National History Challenge is a research-based competition for students. It gives students a chance to be an historian, investigating their community and exploring their own past. It emphasises and rewards quality research, the use of community resources and effective presentation.
The theme for 2008 is 'Australia Meets the World'. Students may produce entries in one of four formats: an individual research paper, a three-dimensional museum display, a multi-media format (audio/video/website), or a performance. Except for the individual (one person) research paper, students may work alone or in groups of up to four people. |
|
|
| 2007 National History Challenge winners (Qld) |
|
2007 Year 7/8 Prize - Sharni Orr, Emerald State School
Sharni has presented a story of her grandfather, a pioneering farmer in the Central Highlands area of Queensland in the 1950/60s. Her essay tells of his pioneering spirit, his perseverance and endurance through the many trials of his life, and of the fulfilment of his goals to farm wheat. Sharni's essay provides a wonderful example of 'Lessons from the Past'.
|
|
2007 Year 9/10 Prize & Asia and Australia Prize - Alidia Lee, Somerville House
A lesson learned in time, 'with courage let us all combine'
This essay explores the life of Wally Koochew, Australia's first Chinese-Australian representative Victorian Football league player, against the backdrop of Chinese immigration in the mid-nineteenth century and the social context of that era. Despite the strong anti-Chinese sentiment thaty developed during the Australian Gold Rushes, he used Australian football to assimilate into Australian society. Wally was a pioneer who challenged the social prejudices of his era through Australian football. Australia's gradual adoption of multicultural virtues has enhanced the nation's future. |
|
2007 Australia's Heritage Prize - Daisy Atwell & Veronica Trezise, Babinda P-12 School
Lest We Forget DVD
The DVD describes the birth of the ANZAC spirit at Gallipoli and its significance to the Australian identity. In early 2007 their Year 10 SOSE class began a unit that investigated the Gallipoli campaign and the ANZAC soldiers. The whole class completed a research essay with most of the information coming from secondary sources. For the DVD Daisy and Veronica extended the research by including local material. Interviews were held with local veterans, and the Internet was used to access databases such as WW2 Roll, find information for the local RSL Sub Branch, diaries, postcards and photographs. The finished DVD was shown to the public at a special screening at the local cinema. |
|
2007 In War and Peace Prize - Rebecca Elliott, Moura SHS
The Anzac Legend: Learning from a National Legacy
Through her essay, Rebecca argues that Gallipoli stands out in Australian history as a time and place to visit, to learn not only about the past but to gain a deeper understanding about the present - about what it means to be Australian. Gallipoli teaches about the Australian spirit. |
|
2007 Museum Display Prize - Courtney Rohde, Toolooa SHS
Courtney's model design is a stack of five boxes connected by a central rod to create an interactive museum display. The first (and lowest) box depicts images and a poem concerning the forgotten ANZACs of WWII, the 'fuzzy wuzzy angels'. The second is the same, except instead it shows modern representations of humanitarian aid workers. The third box shows examples of people we have thought as 'heroes'. The fourth box expresses the idea of what the world would be like without our 'heroes', and the fifth has photographs and quotes that link to the topic 'Forgotten Heroes'.
|
|
2007 Women Shaping History Prize - Natalie Ebrington, Albany Creek SHS
The Life of Elizabeth Macarthur
Natalie begins her essay with the statement 'She made our wool industry huge, but where did the recognition for it go!' Natalie's essay explores how Elizabeth Macarthur madce the Australian wool industry so successful. Natalie was able to identify many 'Lessons from the Past' by describing how Elizabeth Macarthur improved her husband's properties, raised her children, worked through problems without complaint, and contributed to the countries economic prosperity. |
|
2007 Year 11/12 Prize & Indigenous Australia Prize - Alice Pinkerton, St Aidan's Anglican Girls School
Divided We Fall
This essay was a response to a research task aimed at evaluating Australia's policy of removal of indigenous children from their parents. It explores white society's reasoning for the policy, as well as evaluating the many conflictsing perspectives. Her research concludes that, contrary to the justification of improved lifestyle and opportunity, the indigenous chidren removed endured continued discrimination and that the policy of child removal was aimed at keeping white Australia 'pure'. |
|
2007 Premier's Young Historian Award & Australian Prime Ministers Prize - Chris Hartley, Albany Creek SHS
Communism, terrorism, fear and politics: What can we learn from the defection of Evdokia Petrov?
In his essay, Chris investigates the Cold War period, a time when the prospect of war was balanced on a knife's edge. He reminds us that it was tecnically a time of peace, however that psychological warfare was alive and well. He describes how the world looked on in fear as enough nuclear weapons were produced to destroy the world many times over. He suggests society was taught a lesson about fear, that we were taught not to let fear dictate our lives, but that it is evident in today's world that this lesson has not been learnt. |
|
| National History Challenge 2007 Theme - Lessons from the Past |
|
|
2008 QHTA Historical Writing Competition |
|
| Entries for this competition are due Friday, 19 September 2008. Please ensure that you download the conditions and read them carefully. All entries should have the application form attached. |
|
|
|
Students in years 8 to 12 are invited to submit an essay or written response of some other appropriate genre (a report, diary entries, newspaper article, play, script etc). This topic may relate to an historical piece from ancient or modern times. The topic or question which the piece of writing is intended to answer must be clearly stated and must be historical in the sense that it addresses an issue concerned with causes or consequences or change of continuity in human affairs in an identified time period.
The entry may relate to a topic studied during the student's history studies at school and must be the original work of the student, in that the student has not received more assistance than is usually given during the researching and writing of essays or other genres submitted for assessment within the school curriculum. While teachers should feel free to comment on early drafts, the submitted entry must not contain any teacher’s comments, corrections or marks.
Each school may submit no more than three entries in each of Years 8-10. In Years 11 and 12 a maximum of three Ancient History essays and three Modern History essays may be submitted at each year level. In instances where more than the permissible number of three entries in a given year level/category are submitted, only the first three removed from the envelope will be eligible.
|
|
Due Date: Friday, 19 September 2008
Sponsored by the Queensland Independent Education Union |
|
|
2007 QHTA Historical Writing Competition winners |
|
|
QHTA takes great pleasure in announcing the 2007 winners of the Historical Writing Competition. The standard of entries this year was very high and the judges commend both the students and their teachers for the way in which students showed their ability to research, interpret evidence and make historical judgements. |
|
|
|
|
Rosemary Blanch - Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Elliot Harvie - West Moreton Anglican College
Tom Ashby - Anglican Church Grammar School
Highly Commended
Laura Clifton-Jones - Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Sherlyn Hii - Brisbane Girls Grammar School |
|
|
|
|
Chris Hartley - Albany Creek State High School
Hannah Jebel - Albany Creek State High School
Emma Sutherland - St Hilda's School
Highly Commended
Michael Curd - Albany Creek State High School
|
|
|
|
|
Sabina Myers - Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Morgana Lizzio-Wilson - St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School
Rebecca Oost - St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School
Highly Commended
Ellen O'Brien - Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Zara Omarjee - Brisbane State High School |
|
|
|
|
Katherine Wild - Loreto College
Brittoni Chin - Brisbane State High School
Samantha Luck - Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Highly Commended
Robert Manly - Brisbane State High School
Heather Kiriap - Loreto College
Addison Dixon - Albany Creek State High School |
|
|
|
|
Rhianna Ferguson - St Hilda's School
Natasha Gromof - Albany Creek State High School
Isabel Rayner - Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Highly Commended
Lucy Wark - Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Bethany Holt - Brisbane Girls Grammar School
|
|
|
|
|
Rachel King - St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School
Alana Hewish - St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School
Emma Phillpotts - St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School
Highly Commended
Andre Anderson - St Andrews Anglican College |
|
|
|
|
Elizabeth Harris - St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School
Mikaela Turvey - Albany Creek State High School
Chelsea Edmonds - Brisbane Girls Grammar School |
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
