School Class 39

Class 39

2025 School Section

ENTRY & PRIZE LIST

Contact Convenor:  Catherine Dowdell 587-897-2284

Please note: All entries in the school section must include a blue school tag. Blue school tags may be picked up at elementary schools or at the Fair Office or the local New Tecumseth Library.

RULES:

1. New: Entries are grade appropriate as of this school year (exception – students entering Kindergarten in September 2025 may enter exhibits in the ‘Kindergarten’ section).
2. All exhibits must be the original work of the student.
3. All entries will be judged on originality of idea, creativity, and overall effect.
4. If an entry is not worthy of a prize, judges may disqualify an entry.
5. Exhibitors all allowed only one entry in each section.
6. Judge’s decision is final.
7. Exhibits are placed in classes at the owner’s risk.
8. Blue tickets must be filled out for each entry. At the top (visible) print the class, section number and the full name of the article. At the bottom, pupil’s name and school should be printed and the tab folded up so as to cover. Incomplete entry tickets will not be judged. Home schooled exhibits must include a phone number and address, along with the student’s full name.
9. All entries are to be delivered to the Beeton Arena on Thursday, September 11th between 7:00-9:00 p.m. and Friday, September 12th between 8:00-11:30 a.m. Volunteers will be at the arena to answer questions regarding the completion of entry tags or proper placement in categories. Judging takes place on Friday afternoon and the results, and all the exhibits are put on display for all to see during the Fair.
   Please note: Creative Writing Competition rules have changed. ALL Creative Writing Competition entries MUST be received on Thursday, September 11, 2025 to be considered.
10. No exhibits are to be removed from the hall until 5:00 p.m. Saturday, September 13th.
11. All schools must pick up their entries between 5:00-6:00pm on Saturday September 13th.
    Any unclaimed school entries may be picked up at the Fair Office on Sunday September 14th or Monday, September 15th between 9:00-11:00 a.m.
    Unclaimed submissions will be recycled.
12. Note: Parents encourage children, but take no part in their work.
13. Teachers are asked to check that their students (especially in lower grades) are entering exactly what is specified in each section.

Prize money for each article:

5th place              $1.00

4th place              $2.00

3th place              $3.00

2th place              $4.00

1st place               $5.00

PRIMARY

SECTION: KINDERGARTEN

1. Printing: Your own first name, on lined or unlined paper.
2. Picture: “Torn Paper” – use pieces of torn paper glued onto construction paper to make a picture of a horse.
3. Picture: Theme – “Torn Paper” – use pieces of torn paper glued onto construction paper to make a picture – no templates.
4. Picture: Theme – “Me and a pet”, draw and colour a picture of yourself and your pet or a pet you would like to have, any medium.

SECTION: GRADE ONE

5. Picture: Draw a picture of yourself doing something to help at school or home, any medium.
6. Craft: Make a folded paper fan, make it colourful, any medium.
7. Picture: Draw a picture of a building(s) that you would see in your community (i.e. house, barn, fire hall, school), any medium.
8. Craft: Make a puppet of something that would fit within the theme of “Autumn in the Country”.

SECTION: GRADE TWO

9. Printing: In pencil on lined paper, this poem:
   The pumpkin
   Orange, round
   Cold, firm.
10. Picture: Draw a picture showing the members of your family, any medium.
11. Picture: Draw a picture showing a farm, any medium
12. Poster: Create a poster showing a safety rule that you would use at school or at home. Print the rule on the poster.

SECTION: GRADE THREE

13. Printing: In pencil on lined paper, this poem:
    Pumpkin
    Pumpkin, pumpkin big and round,
    I’m glad you grow upon the ground.
    I’m glad you don’t grow in a tree
    For then you might fall down on me.
14. Picture: Draw a picture of a tractor.
15. Picture: Draw a picture reminding people to recycle.
16. Picture: Draw a picture of a farm, any medium.

PRIMARY SPECIALS:

KINDERGARTEN, GRADES 1-3

17. Kindergarten & Grade 1: Beeton Fair Picture: Draw a picture, titled, of an event you would see at the 169 th Fair (i.e. horse show),any medium.
18. Grade 1: Create a collage using items from nature.
19. Grade 2: Beeton Fair Picture: Draw a picture, titled, of an event you would see at the 169 th Fair (i.e. horse show), any medium.
20. Grade 3: Create a collage using items from nature.

JUNIOR

SECTION: GRADE FOUR

21. Cursive Writing: On lined paper, this poem:
    Pumpkin lying on the ground
    How’d you get so big and round?
    Planted as a seed so small,
    Now you are a great big ball.
22. Create: A flag for Beeton depicting bees and honey.
23. Poster: Create a poster showing an animal(s) in its natural habitat.
24. Postcard: Create a postcard depicting the Fall Fair on one side, and a message on the other side. Any medium, maximum 4×6”.

SECTION: GRADE FIVE

25. Cursive writing: On lined paper, this poem:
    The Rain
    Rain on the green grass,
    And rain on the tree,
    And rain on the housetop,
    but not upon me!
26. Picture: Draw your first name only in Graffiti art.
27. Craft: Make a greeting card for any occasion.
28. Poster: Create a poster showing a scene in two seasons.

SECTION: GRADE SIX

29. Cursive writing: On lined paper, this poem:
    One day I found two pumpkin seeds.
    I planted one and pulled the weeds.
    It sprouted roots and a big, long vine.
    A pumpkin grew; I called it mine.
30. Draw a representation of Earth, Water, Air & Fire.
31. Picture: Draw a farm scene depicting livestock and trees, any medium, maximum size 8.5 x 11”.

JUNIOR SPECIALS:

32. Fair Picture: Draw a picture, named, of any aspect of the 169th Fair, any medium.
33. Pumpkin Art: Create a picture depicting pumpkins, any medium, maximum size 8.5 x 11”. Grade 5.
34. Fair Poster: Create a poster depicting the Fall Fair, titled, using theme of “Autumn in the Country”, maximum size 8.5 x 11”.

INTERMEDIATE

SECTION:

GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT

35. Create an original “Coat of Arms” for the Beeton Fall Fair, maximum size 8.5 x 11”.
36. Sketching: A pencil sketch of any subject, no larger than 11 x 14”.

INTERMEDIATE SPECIALS:

37. Poster advertising Beeton Fall Fair (i.e. date, place, 169th year, etc.), any medium, maximum size 24 x 36”.
38. Create a picture depicting the theme of “Autumn in the Country”, in any medium, maximum size 11 x 17”.

CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION

SUBMISSIONS

1. Grade 7 – Short Narrative
2. Grade 8 – Short Narrative
3. Grade 7 & 8 – Poetry

NEW RULES

1. Submission entries must be made known to the School Section Convenor by Friday, September 5, 2025 to be considered.

AND

2. Entries to the Creative Writing Competition must be received on the evening of Thursday, September 11, 2025 to be considered for the competition.

RULES

3. The submission MUST be the original creation of the student in his/her grade seven/eight year in the month of the Beeton Fall Fair.
4. Topic(s) may be the student’s own choice.
5. The short narrative should be a minimum of 250 to a maximum of 500 words in length.
6. All grade seven/eight students may submit one piece of short narrative and one poem only.
7. Submission must be on 8 1/2 x 11” (letter size) paper and must be neatly and legibly written, printed or typed.
8. The best submissions in each of the two categories are to be forwarded to the Convenor of the School Section by 11:30 a.m. on Friday, September 12, 2025, at the Beeton Arena.
9. If entry is not worthy of prize, judges may disqualify.
10. Please note: CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITIONrules have changed. ALL Creative Writing Competition entries MUST be received on Thursday, September 11, 2025 to be considered.