National History Challenge
Year 10 students excelled this year whilst participating in the National History Challenge. The National History Challenge is an inquiry-based competition where students across Australia act as historians by researching and creating their own texts about the past. All year 10 Humanities students participated in the competition by writing historical research essays on the fight for civil rights and freedoms for First Nations people.
The year 10 Humanities teachers were delighted by the high quality of responses and the incredible effort students invested in researching and drafting their essays. This made the task of selecting only six essays to progress to external judging a difficult one.
Five students, Beatrice Lawson-Acar, Catherine Fu, Josephine Wake, Jessie Nguyen and Erika Binuya, received the Victorian Young Historian Bronze award for their research.
State judges identified Chloe Hamilton’s entry as being in the top 3% of Victorian entries. Her essay ‘Conflict to Change: The 1966 Wave Hill Walk Off’ progressed to the next stage, national judging, where it received first place.
Chloe received the Young Historian Gold Award in the category of First Nations People at the National History Challenge award ceremony earlier this month. This is an incredible achievement, and we are very proud of her efforts.
Our congratulations go to all the students who participated in the challenge, as well as the Bronze Award recipients and Chloe as our state champion.
We look forward to offering the competition again as an opportunity for students in 2026.
Kathryn Norris-King
Humanities Learning Leader