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Lording it over Melbourne

Junior Lord Mayor 2016 Competition ends August 15

 
Claire McDaniel aboard the Enterprizer Beverley Pinder-Mortimer (left), Deputy Lord Mayor Susan Riley and Melbourne Day Chairman Campbell Walker

My Lord, what an honour: Reigning Junior Lord Mayor Claire McDaniel helping raise Melbourne's flag with Cr Beverley Pinder-Mortimer (left), Deputy Lord Mayor Susan Riley and Melbourne Day Chairman Campbell Walker. Claire (right) aboard the Enterprize. Photos: Vicki Walsh

 

Teachers, your students will love you for it

Entry is open to Victorian students in grades five to seven (10 to 12 years of age). The competition encourages them to learn about Melbourne history and civic duty.

It's a great classroom activity students will love. And it's free.

To enter is easy. Students complete questions on the entry form. From up to seven finalists, the overall winner is chosen by our judges. With thanks to 13CABS, our competition partner.

Entries close 5pm, 15 August 2016.

 
Win a school excursion about the Enterprize

STOP PRESS: The 2016 Junior Lord Mayor also wins a school excursion on the Enterprize!

The prize for the lucky class includes an interactive history lesson involving discussion, playing out scenes, learning about Melbourne’s early history, hoisting sails, steering, and learning about our city's first settlers.

So, seas the day, don't be nauti and lodge your entries schooner than later.

 

Melbourne Day Education Kit

Free classroom resource: learn who founded Melbourne. To be used in conjunction with the Gilbert and the Guardians of Melbourne e-book (see below)

Learn more: Gilbert and the Guardians of Melbourne education kit

Free education kit for teachers to use in class

Developed by the History Teachers' Association of Victoria and Melbourne Day Committee to make Melbourne's history engaging.

 

Purr-fect for classrooms

Learn who founded Melbourne with Gilbert the Tassie tabby, our first cat

Learn more: Gilbert and the Guardians of Melbourne

Stop pussyfooting. Get your free e-book now.

Developed by the History Teachers' Association of Victoria and Melbourne Day Committee, the colourful e-book is ideal for teachers to use in classrooms and parents at home.

 

Melbourne rocks 181 years

Our free lunchtime concert at Federation Square on 30 August is headlined by music legends:

  • Ross Wilson (Daddy Cool, Mondo Rock)
  • Jack Howard (Hunters & Collectors)
  • Lisa Edwards (John Farnham Band)

And get your free birthday cup cake (while they last)!

 

Thanks to our awesome sponsors & partners

City of Melbourne
13CABS - proud sponsor of the 2015 Junior Lord Mayor Competition
Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses
Radio GOLD104.3 FM
 
Melbourne Water
Radio 3AW AM
Metrol Trains
Enterprize - Melbourne's tall ship
Zouki Group
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History Teachers' Association of Victoria
Lombard the Paper People
Levantine Hill Winery
UMS, Urban Maintenance Systems
William Angliss Institute
Akqire Digital
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