Competition Time
Below are the details for two competitions. If your child would like to enter, please refer to the websites for more information and how to submit their work. Please speak to Mrs Caroline Dickinson if you have any questions.
Easter Show Poetry Competition
AB Paterson Bush Poetry Award
See RAS AB Paterson Bush Poetry Award (rasnsw.com.au) for more details
Calling budding poets
The ‘RAS AB Paterson Bush Poetry Award’ for 2025 is now accepting entries! If you have a passion for writing and storytelling, this is the perfect opportunity for you to showcase your talents and share your unique perspective on rural and regional Australia. This award is open to both Primary and Secondary aged students, with the poems assessed on the age level of each student.
Poems must explore the beauty, mystique, enchantment and characteristics of the Australian Bush in a new work of 50 lines or less.
The winner of this competition will be awarded:
- Rare copy of Banjo Paterson’s original notes when writing ‘Waltzing Matilda’ (Copyrighted)
- Special Edition of ‘Banjo Paterson: A Life in Pictures and Words from the Banjo Paterson Family’
- By Alistair Campbell (great-grandson of Banjo Paterson)
- Framed Award-Winning Certificate
- Family pass to the 2023 Sydney Royal Easter Show to attend the presentation at the Easter Show.
- Junior, years K to 6
- Senior, years 7 to 12
- The overall winner in each of the Junior and Senior sections will receive $250.
- The group winners will each receive $150
How: Submissions are to be emailed/scanned to education@rasnsw.com.auSubmissions close: Tuesday 18 March 2025 @5pmWinners notified: Tuesday 25 March 2025
This will be presented at the 2025 Sydney Royal Easter Show (Date for this presentation is still TBC)
HARMONY DAY POSTER COMPETITION
Theme: Harmony – We All Have a Role to Play
Entries Close: April 12 2025
Specifications: A3 drawing, painting or mixed media work
WHO CAN ENTER?
The Harmony Day Poster Competition is open to school students in all schools in Australia. Entries are based on the student’s school year for 2025.
PRIZES
The competition will be divided into two sections:
And, within each section, into groups based on year of study.
An entry may be made by an individual student or a group of students. In the case of multiple students’ entries the highest class of the students entering will be used for judging purposes