Once again, thousands of schools have taken part in our annual Top Trumps and already it is proving to be a huge success! Ten of thousands of children have battled it out to become the champion of their respective schools and qualify for the challenge of the Top Trumps Elimination Round. Very soon our 2012 Tournament Finalists will be confirmed and will take their seats at the Grand Final on Saturday May 19th in an attempt to be crowned the Top Trumps Champion!

Our 12 lucky finalists are now through to the Grand Final on Saturday 19th May, in London.

See the final Top 20 leaderboard here. If you are in the top 12 we will be in touch soon about your day at the Grand Final. Remember to keep Saturday 19th May free!

Who will be crowned the 2012 Top Trumps Tournament Champion?!

Britain’s Greatest ever Olympian, Sir Steve Redgrave, is the ambassador for the 2012 Tournament and will be at the Grand Final. 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