The Archibull Prize program engages school students in agricultural and sustainability awareness, understanding and action through art, design, creativity, teamwork, and project development.
The program is aligned to the learning areas, general capabilities, all three cross curriculum priorities and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Using critical and creative thinking students investigate and reflect on global sustainability issues through the lens of agriculture and act at a local level. The program provides students with opportunities to meet young farmers and to gain knowledge and skills about the production of the food they eat, fibres they use and the environment they live in.
Teachers, students, and their communities are inspired to have courageous conversations and become changemakers.
The artwork the students design and create becomes a legacy, reminding the community about the importance of looking after our planet and each other.
The Archibull Prize is in its 14th year and has reached over 300,000 students.
1. Students identify a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (Global Goal) on which to design, deliver and report on a community behaviour change project.
2. Schools are provided with a white life size fibreglass cow as a canvas for students to create an agricultural sustainability themed artwork.
3. Schools are allocated a Young Farming Champion who visits the school and mentors the students during the program.
4. Students capture their learning journey, via a Digital Learning Journal, communicating what they have learnt in fun and creative ways to a broader audience.
5.Teachers are provided with multiple professional learning opportunities.
Includes giant cow to paint, paints, resource kit, teacher support, community linkages, launch event, judging tour, monitoring and evaluation and award ceremony.
To assist you in your Archibull Prize journey we have interviewed a diverse range of teachers from public and private schools who share how they have embedded The Archibull Prize into their school curriculum. They share what works and what doesn’t and how they would do things differently next time.
School: The Henry Lawson High School
Teacher: Jillian Reidy, Carolyn Baker
“It’s 100% about the students rather than the product.” See how teachers gain respect for students and how students take exceptional pride in their work.
School: The Henry Lawson High School
Teacher: Jillian Reidy, Carolyn Baker
Find out how important it is to be supported by organisations such as Aussie Farmers Foundation, who are rural focussed and understand issues facing rural communities; and why it is also important for rural students to understand these issues.
School: The Henry Lawson High School
Teacher: Jillian Reidy
“It almost brings you to tears – that’s why we do it.” Learn how a school evaluation at the completion of The Archibull Prize allows teachers to understand the impact of the project, which is highlighted by personal growth of the students.
School: The Henry Lawson High School
Teacher: Jillian Reidy
See why The Henry Lawson High School will be doing The Archibull Prize for the 5th time in 2018. “The students won’t let us not be in it. It’s become an expectation for them that they become involved and The Archibull Prize has become part of the school culture. It’s become something that when people do a search for The Henry Lawson High School, The Archibull is what they find. It’s something that has really become engrained in the school in such a short amount of time.”
School: Blacktown Girls High
Teacher: Khanthamala Gifford, Janine Timms
Learn how teachers collaborate across multiple KLAs and create a Google classroom where teachers and students can access all research documents.
School: Blacktown Girls High
Teacher: Khanthamala Gifford
See how The Archibull Prize satisfies the requirements of the NSW curriculum for visual arts and food technology and learn why it is vital to start early to incorporate it into the syllabus, and to figure out how to do this practically.”
School: Granville Boys High School
Teacher: Melinda Adderley, Fiona Donnelly
Learn how The Archibull Prize is used as part of an enrichment program to give students a deep understanding of the wool industry and how it incorporates multiple KLAs such as visual arts, geography, history, English, science and TAS.
School: Granville Boys High School
See how students learn about technology, such as drones and RFID, and environmental issues, such as water quality, from Young Farming Champions.
School: St Raphael’s Catholic College
Teacher: Inel Date
Find out why The Archibull Prize has been instrumental in the school offering agriculture as a subject at the school for the first time in 2018, when it will start from Year 7 and grow.
School: St Raphael’s Catholic College
Teacher: Inel Date
Learn how The Archibull Prize allows connectivity to the community, through exposure to Young Farming Champions and Indigenous and industry leaders and how it helped the school find out what was happening in their own backyard.
School: St Raphael’s Catholic College
Teacher: Inel Date
See students using the school’s Facebook page, launching an Instagram account and blogging to readers from around the world. See how this interactive edge allows students to investigate contemporary technologies in the social media world and become global communicators.
School: Beaudesert State High School
Teacher: Laura Perkins, Ed Stocker, Vincent Kruger
Learn how social media allows the community to connect with The Archibull Prize, involving multiple learning disciplines such as technology, engineering and software programming.
School: Matraville Sports High School
Teacher: Sarah Robinson
“The key to designing the artwork is to think of the Archie as a canvas and you can do anything to it – it’s definitely not a cow!”
School: Matraville Sports High School
Teacher: Sarah Robinson
See how the Archie can be used to promote the school and its programs at local and national events and give the school international exposure; and even educate politicians!
School: Marrickville High School
Teacher: Jemima Hall
Learn how this cross-KLA and collaborative project-based-learning experience combined visual arts and commerce students, which in turn inspired nearly every student at the school to become interested and involved.
School: MLC Burwood
Teacher: Brett Salakas
Find out how the use of cloud-based documents encouraged collaboration between students and allows anyone in the world with internet to follow their journey; and learn how students use social media such as Twitter to connect with other schools in The Archibull Prize and to people within agriculture in Australia and across the world.
School: Genesis Christian College
Teacher: Sally Anne Arro
See how The Archibull Prize gives the students a chance to be part of a public sculpture, which gives them great depth and meaning, and why students are choosing art so they can be part of “the Cow” and agriculture.
School: Genesis Christian College
Teacher: Sally Anne Arro
Learn how fun it is to explore the different aspects of an industry such as wool, and have students contribute with their own family stories.
School: Genesis Christian College
Teacher: Jo Compton
See how The Archibull Prize provides a unique opportunity for collaboration between different KLAs, which makes the experience richer for all concerned.
School: Kellyville High School
Teacher: Justina Barnier
Find out how The Archibull creates twenty-first century learning skills and becomes a focus for the whole school.
School: Malabar Public School
Teacher: Louise Dique
Find out how important Young Farming Champions are to The Archibull Prize journey, how they establish an easy rapport with and motivate students and share by bringing their stories and families into the school.
