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School Essay Competition

2024 school essay competition  .

Well done to everyone who participated in the 2024 competition; we received a lot of excellent entries.

The results of the competition are:

Santiago Souto,  Hastings School, Madrid

Highly Commended

Maariyah Alli, Bancroft's School, Woodford Green, Essex

Felix Gibbons, Exeter School

Jessica Harrison, Esher Sixth Form College

Nafeesah Kamal, The Grey Coat Hospital School, London

Megan Lam, Diocesan Girls' School, Hong Kong

Eden McCartney, The Grey Coat Hospital School, London

Desola Omonijo, Downe House School, West Berkshire

Alice Osborne, Eastbourne College

Lara Ricard, Sydenham High School

Nathan Smith, Chellaston Academy, Derby

Sara Urdaneta, The Marlborough Science Academy, St Albans

William Vinecombe, Lord Wandsworth College, Hampshire

Calla Whitby, Cokethorpe School, Oxfordshire

Roni Xie, Guildford High School

Everyone listed here (and their teacher, from the accompanying entry form) will be contacted separately by the Society.  

The 2024 School Essay Competition, organised in partnership with the Financial Times, asked students to answer the following question:

Drawing on information from your daily life, what sustainability action points would you prioritise?

Entrants were asked to include no more than ten key ideas. They had to justify their choices. Accompanying information from the FT and other sources had to be used. 

This resource was provided as a useful starting point.  Carbon counting: how much do your lifestyle choices cost the planet? (ft.com)

The judges were looking for: 

• a clear essay or ArcGIS StoryMap that was well-evidenced and reached a clear conclusion 
• submissions that did not exceed 1,000 words (excluding references) 
• referenced sources of information and data 
• submissions that were the entrant’s own work and relevant to the question and guidance

The Society runs this competition in partnership with the Financial Times as part of its education programme to support geography teachers and their pupils.

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Essay Winners 2023

Here they are... the essay winners 2023!

In this 8th annual essay competition on Kids World Travel Guide, we received almost 300 entries from 29 countries and students entered with a wide range of home languages - we are amazed by your kindness!

Congratulations to our fabulous prize-winners! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful essays! And a huge Thank You to ALL who participated this year and again made this competition such a huge success! 

2023 was a record year for our competition.. Almost 300 entries showed us that students are engaged and concerned about wildlife and that being kind to nature and protecting our planet is a great desire for our young participants. We are grateful that our competition inspired the creativity of the young students who covered a wide range of topics under the 2023 theme: Wildlife - Nature's Stars.

From insightful tips on how to best conserve energy and support wildlife to stories about conservation initiatives and personal achievements. There were many highly creative stories, some of them more critical and inspirational others more factual and some very imaginative.

It is truly inspiring and motivating to witness how many of you went out of your comfort zones and shared your knowledge so compassionately! We are grateful to everyone of you who try to make this world a better place for all of us!

We again have very much enjoyed reading, shortlisting and discussing the many extraordinary essays and were amazed by the high quality essays. This time, however, we were also astounded of how many students tried to send in essays that have been composed and written completely by AI generators. Yes, we checked all of the entries! And let us tell you, these essays were not the best!

Especially to all who went above this effort, we thank you very much for your input even if your essay entry did not make it into the final round or the commended entries. This year we add again several outstanding essays per category as "commended essays". We decided to publish all the wonderful work because the extraordinary skills of those participants who made it into our final round, were exemplary and we want to give you all more space on our page as well! You can be so very proud of your achievements!

Please bear with us, as all the commended entries will be added to the site only closer to the end of this month.

Now finally we can announce the 2023 winners for each category.

Drumroll, please... here they are:

Essay Competition Winners 2023:  'Wildlife - Nature's Stars"

Age category: 8 - 11 years.

All winners have been notified via email about their success in the essay competition. Congratulations! Prizes and certificates will be despatched by the end of the month.

This year we again added a special mentions category for several outstanding essays of our finalists. 

Special Mention

All "special mention" essays will receive their merit certificates by the end of this month. 

Age Category: 12 -15 years

All winners have been notified via email about their success in the essay competition. Certificates and prizes have been dispatched. Congratulations again! Well done! Keep on writing!

Thank you for your wonderful essays! All these excellent essays will make a great reading and are an inspiration! Merit award certificates for "special mention" essays will be sent to the participants by the end of the month.

Keep honing your writing skills while exploring the world around you, there is nothing better than sharing ideas and insights!

Our competition stats and the infographic for the 2023 competition will be shown here by end of November 2023. Please watch this space....

Essay Competition Winners Infographics

And for those of you who want to compare the newest statistics to the 2022 and the 2021 stats, here they are:

Competition Statistics 2022

Competition Statistics 2021

Now, if you are interested in our previous competition winners, check out their essays in the last years' listings below:

Competition Winners 2022: "My Life"

• Hiranga Bandara Suraweera: "My Life"  (Trinity College Kandy, Sri Lanka) - English as Second Language, Home language Sinhala
• Naurah Afiqah Mohd Naseem: "A Day of My Life"  (Sekolah Kebangsaan Putrajaya, Malaysia) - English as Second Language
• Daphne Tsu: "My School Life"  (Macau Anglican College, China) - English as Second Language, Home Language Chinese
• Lizzie Xu: "The Flowing Rhythm of My Life"  (St George’s British International School Rome, Italy) - English as Second Language, Home Language Chinese
• Kanyisola Omogbai: "Scrabble"  (Topaz Comprehensive College Lagos, Nigeria) – English as First Language

Age Category: 12 - 15 years

• Aelfred Bowden: "Half a year in Japan"  (Aberdeen/ UK) – English as First Language, Home Language Mandarin Chinese
• Pei Yuan Erica Yip: "Zongzi (dumpling)"  (Foon Yew High School Johor Bahru, Malaysia) - Home Language Chinese
• Carys Lee Hui Ern: "My Life"  (SMJK Chan Wa Seremban- Malaysia) – English as First Language
• Benedict Okoroafor: "Personal Activities"  (Dority International School Abayi, Nigeria) – Home Language Igbo, English as Second Language
• Natalie Treu: "Life As A Resident Sibling"  (Homeschooled/ USA) - English as First Language 

Competition Winners 2021: "Hope"

• Carissa Handrian: "Beauty Within Our Archipelago"  (Bina Bangsa School, Indonesia)
• Rithikha Shree Sivananthan: "My Favourite Quote: A Beautiful Mind Makes a Beautiful Life"  (Pusat Tuisyen Alfa Matriks, Malaysia)
• Avni Singh: "Live in Hope, Love to Laugh"  (Homeschooling, India)
• Haram Cho: "Power of Hope"  (International School ParkCity Hanoi, Vietnam)
• Lizzie Xu: "My Eternal Hope"  (St George's British International School Rome, Italy)
• Corrine Yang: "The Power of Hope"  (Merivale High School, Canada)
• Cojitha Senanayake: "The Beach: My Haven, My Hope" (St Thomas' College, Sri Lanka)
• Angelos Kandilas: "Hope is the dream of an awake person"  (Music School of Athens, Greece)
• Akriti Lamba: "Anne Frank - A Story Of Hope"  (Our Lady Queen of the Missions School, India)
• Nischal Samrat: "Life, an Opportunity"  (Sudarshan Vidya Mandir, India)

Competition Winners 2020: "My Country"

• Ihor Kravchenko: "The Country of My Dreams" (Saint Joseph School, Lebanon)
• Srikoustubh Karanam: "My Country - Invincible India" (Overseas Family School, Singapore)
• Rizqin Nasuha Mohamed Ridzuan: "The Country of My Dreams" (Artistic Strategies Academy, Singapore)
• Parker Hadley: "Florida to Alaska: A Big Change" (Raven Homeschool, USA)
• Mitchell Kuhn: "Cape Vultures" (Homeschool, South Africa)
• Matthew Borg: "About My Home Country" (Stella Maris College, Malta)
• Leila El Baba: "Japan - The Country of My Dreams" (Šiauliai Centro Primary School, Lithuania) 
• Regina Chiu: "My Host Country Singapore" (Saint Joseph's Institution International School, Singapore)
• Luca Ciripitca: "Moldova" (Sutton Grammar School, UK)
• Ashley Tay: "My Unique Home" (CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School, Singapore)
• Alina Kiedos: "Romanies in Poland" (English Language Studio, Poland)
• Tana Tahira Valmond: "My Country Dominica" (Dominica Grammar School, Dominica)
• Muhammad Imad Khan: "Trees" (Islamia Children Academy, Pakistan)
• Pranavkrishna Bharanidharan: "The Crossroads of My Life" (California Montessori Project, USA) - What a wonderful achievement now in the Senior Category! Read his winning essay from 2019 in the Junior Category here .

Essay Competition Winners 2019: 'The Gift of Languages'

Age category: 8-11 years, age category 12-15 years, special prize, essay competition winners 2018: 'my favourite festival'.

We really enjoyed all your entries, so please do not give up on your dream if you want to become a writer but your essay was not chosen for publication this time.

Never give up! Keep on writing and honing your skills and join in our next competition! ... And for some of you we will have a special treat, so keep our site bookmarked and you might hear from us regarding a special publication of your entry on another page on this site. Cheers!

Essay Competition Winners 2017: 'My Favourite Holiday'

All winners will be notified via email about their success in the essay competition to claim their prizes which then will be dispatched in the coming week. Congratulations again! Well done! Keep on writing!

Essay Competition Winners 2016: 'My Country'

Matilda Rumball-Smith from New Zealand, Ngunguru School

'New Zealand - Aoteorea'

Read the award-winning essay here

Kundana Panuganti from the USA, Eason Elementary School

'My Country India'

Poem Schway from the USA, Christa McAuliffe School

'Austria - The Wonder'

Read her essay here.

Sree Panuganti from the USA, Timberline School

'Incredible India'

Ana Sofia Moreno from South Africa, Curro Schools

'My Country South Africa'

Image credits on essay competition winners page: Shutterstock.com and own images

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