Welsh Heritage Schools Initiative
Students
studying History in Year 9 have won a prize of £500 in this prestigious award
in 2008. The sponsor of the prize was Barclays Bank plc.
Below is an excerpt from the publication produced for the award ceremony.
Each year, the Welsh Heritage Schools Initiative Committee invites infant, primary, secondary schools and colleges to undertake heritage projects and to submit them for the nationwide heritage competition.
These projects require research, collection of materials, analysis and evaluation. They may result in booklets, exhibitions, performances, CDs, restoration work and other forms of contribution to heritage.
Young people's work is assessed, taking into account the appropriate level of literacy, numeracy and information technology skills. Pupils are encouraged to involve their community and people of different generations in their projects, and to disseminate their findings.
All schools entering the competition are visited by judges, and prizes are awarded for the best projects in each category; infant, primary, secondary and special schools. These prizes are presented by the sponsors who had donated them at an Awards Ceremony. Each year, the ceremony is held at a different venue in South, Mid and North Wales: Cardiff National Museum and Galleries of Wales; Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Wales; Builth Wells Royal Welsh Agricultural Showground; Builth Wells National Eisteddfod; University of Wales Lampeter; Llanberis Museum of the North; Powys Castle; Rhondda Heritage Park; Techniquest in Cardiff Bay; The National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth; Tredegar House, Newport; Cardiff University; Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, Powys.