It’s your heritage:
School Heritage Competition 2007
SUPPORTING NOTES
WHY A COMPETITION?
o The 2007 School Heritage Competition aims to raise awareness of the diversity and significance of our
state’s historic heritage.
o The competition is designed to encourage students to recognise, appreciate and value the historic
heritage of their community and its role in creating community identity.
o It also provides an opportunity for teachers and students to link school curricula to a meaningful and
rewarding project.
THE THEME
The theme It’s your heritage is deliberately open. Many people think ‘heritage’ relates to old buildings only.
Heritage can be a house built in the 60s, an industrial precinct, a railway line, a cemetery, bridge, or even a
hawthorn hedge.
All of these places have a history, not just in terms of architectural form, but of the people who built the
structures; the community members who lived, worked or played amongst the structures; and as signposts
of a community’s growth.
Objects, photos and other historic artefacts are also part of our heritage with their own unique stories.
Teachers may interpret the theme widely.
Possible topics could be:
o Identifying one or several significant local heritage places
o Producing a heritage interpretation for your community
o Constructing a heritage trail for your community
o Explaining how a heritage place has been adapted and now has a new life
o Completing stories of the people who lived and worked in the heritage places, or of the objects and the
role they played in a specific historical moment
o Building the competition into your current agenda. For example studies of Anzac Day could also include
an investigation of monuments or honour rolls in your community.
A range of ideas can be found at www.heritage.tas.gov.au/education.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PRIZES:
All entrants will receive a certificate of participation, with special certificates for those entries considered
to be highly recommended, finalists and winners.
Prizes for winners are as follows:
o Years 3-6: $200 worth of prizes (to the school)
o Years 7 – 9: $400 worth of prizes ($300 for the school / $100 for the individual)
o Years 10-12: $400 worth of prizes ($300 for the school / $100 for the individual)
DEPARTMENT of TOURISM, ARTS
and the ENVIROMENT
HERITAGE TASMANIA
NATIONAL TRUST
OF AUSTRALIA
(TASMANIA)
FORMAT
Years 3-6:
o A poster (A2 size, or two A3 sheets joined together) in the form of, for example,:
– designing a heritage trail;
– promoting or interpreting a heritage site as a tourism venture; or
– defining the significance of a local building through pictures and words.
Years 7-12:
o An artistic picture of the place (eg photograph, painting, drawing, montage), supported by an essay (of
no more than 400 words) that explains the importance of the place or object and why the individual, or
the community, considers it of historic significance.
o The entry should include both a hardcopy of the picture and a jpeg version on CD-ROM, along with a
printed copy of the essay.
JUDGING
The judging panel is likely to include:
o a member of the Tasmanian Heritage Council
o a member of the National Trust of Tasmania (Australia)
o a staff member of Heritage Tasmania
o a practising classroom teacher.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
o The main criteria will be how the students’ key message(s) relate to the theme.
o The content should show a clear understanding of heritage and its value for the present and future.
o The main considerations regarding format will be the quality of the presentation including visual
impact and use of language (appropriate to student age).
ENTRY GUIDELINES
o It is a condition of entry that the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania) and Heritage Tasmania has
permission to display or otherwise use the posters, photographs or essays for promotional and
education purposes free of charge. Any such use will be discussed with individual teachers.
o Up to three (3) entries only per class should be submitted for judging. It is therefore essential that
students and teachers pre-select which entries will represent their class.
o Those students in years 7-12 submitting pictures are requested to provide a hardcopy as well an
electronic copy of the image at a resolution no less than 300 dpi (if this proves difficult, a hardcopy in
the first instance is acceptable).
WHAT SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE?
o All teachers have access to support from the National Trust and Heritage Tasmania (see contact
details below).
o The Heritage Tasmania website has a resource section for teachers. Visit
www.heritage.tas.gov.au/education.
TIMELINE:
Entries due
Judging
Advise teachers and students of outcome
Announcement of winners
24 August 2007
27 August – 24 September 2007
week commencing 24 September 2007
October 2007
Further information and advice is available from www.heritage.tas.gov.au/education or contact
Ester Guerzoni, Heritage Tasmania
Phone 6233 4152 | Email: ester.guerzoni@heritage.tas.gov.au
DEPARTMENT of TOURISM, ARTS
and the ENVIROMENT
HERITAGE TASMANIA
NATIONAL TRUST
OF AUSTRALIA
(TASMANIA)