Competitions

BBC Young Composer 2020 competition

The BBC Young Composer 2020 competition is open to students aged 12-18 of all technical abilities, backgrounds, and musical influences. The deadline for this year's competition is 5pm, Monday 20 July. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/young-composer-launch

The 30 Second Composition Challenge has also been launched challenging composers aged 12- 18 to get creative at home and create a 30-second piece for a single instrument or voice. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/TByVm765XjYpg6b8y5MCzM/bbc-young-composer-30- second-composition-challenge]

Competition: a vision for life after Covid-19

"Never waste a good crisis"

This competition, run by UCL openDemocracy, was launched on 17 June and is open to school and university students (aged 14 and up) to share their vision of the future, with prizes of £200, £100 or £50 in book tokens plus the chance for personal mentoring from the panel of some of the world's foremost thinkers and some fantastic work experience with either UCL or openDemocracy.

Entrants can submit either a written article, short video or image that describes their vision for the world after the coronavirus crisis has passed.

To find out more visit: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/world-after-covid/

Y7 and Y8 Science Competition

Mrs Harrison would like year 7 and year 8 science students to take part in the ‘make a model virus’ competition. We would like you to make a model and send in photographs of your entries by 17 July 2020 to sharrison@highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk with the subject VIRUS COMPETITION in the title.

Entries will be judged over the summer and the top three Y7 and Y8 entries will receive edible prizes.

To view the full pdf and details please click the link below: http://www.highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk/pdfs/NewsPDFs/Y78ScienceCompetition.pdf

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire competition to celebrate our health and social care heroes through creative art

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire is encouraging children and young people to get creative in order to celebrate our health and social care heroes.

There are hundreds of different job roles in the NHS and social care and all who work in Derby and Derbyshire have been magnificent in recent months as we battle the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected all our lives.

The nation is rightly proud of the contributions of key workers and we now want to recognise and celebrate the efforts of employees in this sector through an art competition for children and young people.

Children and young people, aged between four and 16, are being encouraged to capture through art what our health and social care heroes mean to them.

The competition is free to enter and participants have until Friday 31 July 2020 to submit their works of inspirational art. Any style of art is being accepted with entries being submitted via a digital photo emailed to dhcft.joinedupcareers@nhs.net

There are a number of prizes available and the winner will have their artwork showcased in a future campaign to recruit to the health and social care workforce.

Susan Spray, programme lead for Joined Up Careers Derbyshire: “We’re encouraging children and young people to get creative – drawing, painting, photography, sculpture or whatever artform they enjoy most. We will judge the entries via a submitted photo of whatever they produce. We think this is a great chance to celebrate the work of everyone in health and social care and give children and young people in Derby and Derbyshire a focus for their lockdown artistic efforts.”

Joined Up Careers Derbyshire is a partnership of NHS, local authorities and the voluntary and community sector, promoting recruitment and retention in the health and social care workforce.

Further information and full competition terms and conditions are available on the Joined Up Careers Derbyshire website: www.joinedupcareers.co.uk/about/art-competition

Updates on the competition will be made on the social media pages of Joined Up Careers Derbyshire including Twitter at @JUCareersD using #CareersArt