Winners for 2009 in the National History Challenge

The National Trust of Victoria is proud to be a sponsor of the National History Challenge competition for schools.

We sponsor the Heritage section of the competition.The full details are available on the NHC website. http://www.historychallenge.com.au/

St Monica's Primary School (Footscray)- Winners for 2009 Heritage section

Congratulations to Johnson Tiev, Andrew Bui and Andrew Le of St. Monica's Primary School in Footscray who won the Heritage of the National History Challenge for 2009 with their entry about Ash Wednesday.

The theme for the National History Challenge 2009 was 'Triumph over adversity'. When the group decided to research the Ash Wednesday Bushfires of Feb 16th 1983. They discovered that the land had regenerated and although people suffered terrible losses many had rebuilt their lives.

The boys comments were :- 'We read stories of amazing courage, community spirit and people helping each other. We also found that most of the people interviewed knew that family and friends were more important than possessions. Also Mr Medwin said 'No matter how low, you can survive and can come up and lead a happy life again later'.

National History Challenge 2010

The National Trust is a proud sponsor of the National History Challenge and invites students from years 5 to 12 to enter this research based competition. It gives students a chance to be an historian, investigating their community and exploring their own past and heritage. It emphasises and rewards quality research, the use of community resources and effective presentation. Entrants can progress through regional, state/territory and national finals. Students can present their work in one of four formats:

• a research paper (individual entry only);
• a three dimensional museum display;
• a multimedia format (audio/video/website); or
• a performance.

The competition winner will be announced shortly and details posted on the web in December.

About the challenge sponsors

The Australian Council of National Trusts is a sponsor of The National History Challenge, a program run by the History Teachers’ Association of Australia and supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.