The School Prize

John Button School Prize

The Prize has been instituted to commemorate the life, work and writing of John Button, who was a Victorian Federal Minister who believed that good ideas and good writing could make Australia a better place. The John Button Schools Prize seeks to encourage senior students who also feel strongly about Australia’s future to publish their best ideas in an essay.

The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority is pleased to support the John Button School Prize, which will award $2,500 for the best essay on a subject concerning Australia’s future by a Victorian student who is in Years 10 to 12 and is younger than 19. It also awards $2,000 to the student’s school and both student and school receive a commemorative plaque.

Other supporters of the Prize are the Victorian Association for the teaching of English, Social Education Victoria and the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria.

Entries are now open and entries have been extended to 5.00 pm on 25 July 2011.