This online competition is free and available to schools in participating local government areas.

Entitled Rewind the clock – reverse ecosystem degradation, this competition invites students to focus on the United Nations’ Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, which aims to “prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean.”

The competition has six categories:

• Public speaking
• Visual arts
• Drama
• Writing
• Video
• Memes/cartoons

Using one of these Arts categories students could consider such elements of ecosystem restoration as:

• Understanding what ecosystems are
• Ecosystems in your backyard and schools
• Ecosystem restoration
• Relationships amongst personal, social, environmental well-being
• Actions and leadership at personal through to global levels
• Imagining healthy ecosystems
• No time to waste: ecosystems must be restored.

Download the support package for information on the competition, the categories and the judging criteria. This package also contains useful links to articles relevant to the topic for the competition.

Participating councils are:

• Camden
• Campbelltown
• Georges River
• Liverpool
• Mosman
• Parramatta (Our Lady of Mercy College)
• Sutherland Shire
• Willoughby

If you are a student and your council is not listed above but you still want to participate, or if you are a council and you want to support this 2021 competition, please contact us.

Due to the impacts of the COVID pandemic, we have extended the deadline for entries.
The competition is now open for entries via this page until Friday 20 August 2021.

Click here to submit your entry for Sydney 2021 Speaking 4 the Planet.