We are now busy planning our 3rd annual Schools Top Trumps Tournament and it promises to be even bigger than before - with hundreds of schools already signed up to take part.

We’ve created a brand new Tournament game this year that focuses entirely on the London 2012 Olympic Games. With 6 amazing packs on subjects ranging from British Olympic Legends to Olympic Moments, the London 2012 Top Trumps Tournament takes players right to the heart of the Games – and gives you all the facts & stats you could ever want to know.

Britain’s Greatest ever Olympian, Sir Steve Redgrave, will be the ambassador for the 2012 Tournament – and our winning Top Trumps Tournament School Champion will win a once-in-a-lifetime rowing experience with the Olympic Champion himself!!

If you have any questions about the 2012 Top Trumps Tournament, please contact us at: tournamentinfo@toptrumps.com

As well as being great fun and as popular as ever with primary school children, parents and teachers also love Top Trumps as it delivers a range of educational benefits through ‘camouflaged learning’.  The National Children’s Bureau (The NCB) carried out some research on the National Schools Top Trumps Tournament and found that Top Trumps does help children improve their basic numeracy and literacy, as well as help them gain and deepen their knowledge on the subject matter covered in the pack. Click here to read a summary of the report.

Other ways that Top Trumps works in Schools


Motiv

Top Trumps for Top Attendance
Top Trumps are working with social enterprise MOTIV CIC to deliver The 100% Challenge in primary schools across the UK. If your school is interested in raising attendance supported by ‘Top Trumps for Top Attendance’ then click through to www.motiv.org.uk which has further information about taking part. As well as packs of Top Trumps pupils earn unique badges as a part of The 100% Challenge supported by an action plan and an exclusive set of resources which when implemented together have a proven success rate in individual, whole school and authority wide improvements.
TES resources

TES resources
Through partnership with TES Resources, lots of teachers are sharing their amazing Top Trumps resources online. You can access the entire collection, for both primary and secondary teaching here. TES Maths adviser Craig Barton has also gathered together his favourite Top Trumps resources for secondary maths. Why not try them with your pupils and tell us what you think!

wastebuster

Wastebuster
Schools who register with the Sport into Schools London 2012 Inspire project are to receive a 50% entry fee discount to the National Schools 2012 Top Trumps Tournament. Sport into Schools exchanges unwanted textiles for new sports equipment in the lead up to the Olympics and beyond. As well as earning sports equipment for their school, children are also caring for the environment and their community by helping to divert textile waste from landfill:
www.wastebuster.co.uk/sport-into-schools