Enter The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2025 – Our Commonwealth Journey(Prizes including fully-funded trip to London, UK)

We are delighted to announce that The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition (QCEC) is now open for submissions. The theme for this 12 months’s competitors is Our Commonwealth Journey.

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Journeys are a elementary side of our lives, serving to us to discover, to be taught, and to develop. Throughout historical past, nations, communities, and people have undertaken their very own journeys, navigating the tides of an ever-changing world.

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Since its founding in 1949, the Commonwealth has undertaken many journeys to evolve into its present type, with 56 member nations, and lately celebrating its seventy fifth anniversary.

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There are additionally many nice journeys to be had throughout the Commonwealth, which spans 5 continents, is liable for a 3rd of the world’s oceans and has a massively various inhabitants of two.7 billion folks.

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The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2025, subsequently, asks entrants to contemplate the relevance of journeys in a Commonwealth context, whether or not geographical, historic or private. What journeys the Commonwealth has taken or could take sooner or later, in addition to to mirror on their very own particular person journeys.

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Enter the competition by 23 May 2025!

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SENIOR CATEGORY 

(Born between 23 May 2006 and 23 May 2011 (14-18 years of age)) 

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1. Equal entry to schooling is enshrined within the Commonwealth Charter as one of many key values and aspirations that unite the Commonwealth. While the Commonwealth has come a good distance on the journey in the direction of this, there’s nonetheless progress to be made. Imagine a Commonwealth wherein everybody has the identical entry to schooling.

2. National legends and folklore can take us on a journey by historical past and tradition. Retell a well-known folklore from your personal or one other Commonwealth nation in a shocking manner.

3. “Human beings have always needed the connection of literature – its wisdom as well as its sheer escapism.” – Her Majesty Queen Camilla. Books can take us on journeys to the wildest and most sudden locations! Write a couple of time a e book took you on a journey; how did it have an effect on you?

4. From tiny seeds to giant redwoods, timber and crops expertise adjustments and progress all through their life cycles. Write a narrative concerning the life journey of a plant rising within the centre of your group; what does it expertise?

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JUNIOR CATEGORY 

(Born on or after 23 May 2011 (below 14 years of age))

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1. “Together, we represent a third of humanity, with all the splendidly diverse complexity that this entails.” – His Majesty King Charles. Learning new info can take us on journeys to new locations. Write a couple of time you discovered one thing fascinating a couple of totally different Commonwealth nation from your personal.

2. Commonwealth states vary from small island nations like Nauru to bigger nations like India. Write an account of a sea voyage from one Commonwealth nation to a small island Commonwealth nation. What do you see, who do you meet?

3. You embark on a really particular journey while you uncover a secret door that takes you into your favorite e book! What occurs subsequent?

4. October 2024 noticed Commonwealth leaders journey to Samoa for the 2024  Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Imagine what an animal CHOGM would seem like! Which animals journey there? What do they focus on?​​​​​​

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