Biodiversity Art Competition
Calling Wicklow's Primary Schools!
To celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity (2010), Wicklow Mountains National Park is hosting an art competition for primary schools. Children are invited to submit artwork depicting any aspect of Ireland’s Biodiversity. This may be a plant or an animal or a habitat, or any aspect of Ireland’s wonderful Nature.
What is Biodiversity?
Biodiversity is simply the variety of life on earth. To find out more, click here.
Categories
Art work will be judged in four age categories:
Infants (junior & senior infants)
1st & 2nd class
3rd & 4th class
5th & 6th class
We welcome artwork in any medium - drawings, paintings, collage on paper, etc.
Size: All artwork should be A3. We will not be able to return work.
Please write on the back of each piece of art: a title to explain what has been drawn, child’s name, age, class, teacher and school name and contact number written on the back.
Closing date for receipt of art work is 30 April.
The winners will be announced during National Biodiversity Week 16 to 23 May.
Prizes
A prize will be awarded for the work deemed to be the best in each category. Prizes will consist of a choice of wildlife books (please see list below) and a trophy mug with the child’s picture printed on it. The school will also receive the choice of a native tree or bird box or a bat box. The school will also have the option of booking a biodiversity themed day out to the Education Centre in Glendalough for the child’s class during June 2010.
Runners up will receive certificates of commendation with the child’s picture inserted. The best pictures will be on show in the National Park Information Office, Glendalough over the summer holidays.
Each first prize winner may choose one book from the following list:
- The Bug Book & Bug Bottle Kit
- The Secret Lives of Garden Wildlife
- Collins Gem Insects, Garden Birds & Wildflowers book series
- Collin’s Complete Irish Wildlife
- Nick Baker’s Bug Book: Discover the World of Mini-beasts!
- Go Wild! 101 Things to do Outdoors before You Grow Up
- Ireland’s Mammals
- The Bumper Book of Nature
- Steve Backshall’s Deadly 60
- Birdwatching in Ireland with Eric Dempsey
- The First Time Naturalist
- Ireland’s Ocean – a natural history
- The Complete Guide to Ireland’s Birds
Poster
To download a Biodiversity Art Competition poster (pdf file), click here.