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Geography Teachers Association of Victoria

Alex Lyne Fieldwork Award - Past Winners

Year

Category

 Award Type

Teacher Name

School 

Fieldwork Topic

2024  Year 11 Highly Commended Stephen Barrett Kew High School   To what extent is Butler’s model applicable to laneway tourism in Melbourne?”
 Year 8  Highly Commended Kirk Thomson & Megan Ryan St Bede's College Year 8 Coastal Landscapes

2023

VCE

 Winner

Paul Rogers

University High School

VCE Unit 3 Land Use Change: Fitzroy Gasworks

2022

VCE

 Winner

Simone Barlow

Williamstown High School

Air Pollution in Western Melbourne

2020

7 - 10

 Winner

Naomi Baulch

Tintern Grammar

Virtual Field Study McCrae Foreshore Victoria Year 10 Geography Coastal Management

2018

VCE

 Winner

Adrian De Fanti

Mazenod College

An investigation of Land Use Change at the former Boronia Heights Secondary College site

2017

7 - 10

 Winner

Naomi Baulch

Tintern Grammar

Year 10 Environmental Change and Management: A comparison of resource management and ecotourism accreditation at Phillip Island


7 - 10


Honourable Mention

Michael McKenna

Candice Ford

Lisa Williams

Atlas 9 Program

Lavalla College

Traralgon

Year 9 Geographies of interconnections: Melbourne geographical enquiry


Senior

 Winner

Lynne Griffiths

Peta Turner


Trish Douglas

Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar

Ivanhoe Grammar

Eltham College

VCE Unit 3 : North Growth Corridor Melbourne


Senior 

Honourable Mention

Benn Jamieson

Ringwood Secondary College

VCE Unit 1 Hazard and disasters: Toolangi, Kinglake and Lake Mountain

2016

Primary

 Winner

Shae Nechwatal

Merri Creek Primary School

Year 5/6 - Merri Creek BioBlitz


Senior

 Winner

Andrew Dodson

Caulfield Grammar

Unit 3 AOS1: Land Use Change


7 - 10

 Winner

Amanda Hart

Brisbane Grammar School

Year 8 Geography – Geomorphic Hazards (Landslides)

2015

Primary

 Winner

Melinda Rankin

Serpell Primary School

Year 2 fieldwork

at Haining Farm


Senior

 Winner

Anna Blamey

Vermont Secondary College

VCE Unit 2,

Urbanisation in the City of Melbourne


7 - 10

 Winner

Despina Polatidis

Dromana

Secondary College

Tootgarook Wetland

for Years 9 & 10, Changing

Environments & the new VCE Unit 3, Changing the land


Spatial Technology Certificate

 Winner

Peter Girolami

Galen Catholic College, Wangaratta

Different activities

demonstrating how to integrate GPS units in

fieldwork across a number of year levels

2014

Year 8   Winner

Sara Liversidge, Catherine Hill &

Ilja Van Weringh

Wesley College

Year 8 : Hanging Rock


VCE

 Runner Up

Mark Easton

St Margaret's School & Berwick Grammar School

Unit 2 Fieldwork : Docklands: An example of Urban Renewal


Fieldwork 

Highly Commended for Fieldwork Excellence

Sara Liversidge, Arianna Benson & Chris Marsden

Wesley College

Werribee River


Fieldwork 

Highly Commended for Fieldwork Excellence

Theo Hartman

Coburg Senior High School

Local Resource Analysis : Barmah National Park


Fieldwork 

Highly Commended for Fieldwork Excellence

Glenn Wyatt

Donald High School

Unit 1 - Coastal Environments: Portland


Fieldwork 

Highly Commended for Fieldwork Excellence

Yvonne Anson & Leanne Outram

Bayview College Portland


FIeldwork

Highly Commended for Fieldwork Excellence

Anna Blamey

Vermont Secondary College

VCE Unit 3 study of Regional Resources - Ringwood Lake Park

2013

   Winner

Maree Boyle

Highview Christian College

Torquay : Where the land joins the sea



 Runner up

Andrew Dodson

Caulfield Grammar

Werribee Treatment Plant

2012

VCE  Winner

Anna Blamey

Vermont Secondary College

VCE Unit 1 : A study of Coastlines, Bay and Ocean Environments


Year 7 - 12  Winner

Paul Cross

St Catherine's School Toorak

Years 7-12 : Coastal Fieldwork

2011

VCE  Winner

Sharon Jones

Distance Education

VCE Unit 1 : Geography Fieldwork on a Local River


Need some inspiration for a fieldwork trip? 

Head over to the GTAV Community - GeoSource to see all the past entries from the Alex Lyne Fieldwork Award since 2020. 

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