Creativity. Logic. Teamwork.
Every young person is different, but they must work together for the chance to be crowned the Ultimate Classmaster.
The Classmaster challenge is designed to encourage your students to:
- Showcase their individual strengths
- Develop skills in innovation and problem-solving
- Become better team-players
- Have fun!
As well as having fun you’ll also be raising money for the NSPCC! With you and your students’ support, we can help keep children safe.
3 simple steps to take part
1) Sign up to register your school to get involved, and get access to our resources to help you take part.
2) Visit our resources page and plan your Classmaster event using our free resources and ideas
3) Before the Easter break, or when you come back in May, hold your Classmaster event, raise money and help support our vital work.
FREE resources
When you sign up, we’ll give you access to loads of Classmaster Challenge resources including:
- Over 20 ideas for activities to choose from
- Assembly plan
- Sponsorship form
- Poster
- And more!
Task ideas
Here are some examples of the Classmaster activities you can choose from. When you register, you'll find loads of other task ideas on the resources page!
Balloon tower
Using only balloons, tape, and your imagination, create a free-standing tower. The tallest tower without falling over wins!
Paper planes
Test your engineering skills and make a paper plane to throw across the hall or playground. Use a measuring tape to see how far they fly. Whoever's plane flies the furthest wins!
Mystery box
Given a box of random items, create a unique invention and pitch it to the judges. The most unique invention wins!
Test your teacher
Get your thinking caps on and come up with a maths equation that you know the answer to. Challenge a maths teacher to work out the equation, the one that takes them the longest to work out wins!
Paper Planes competition
Once you sign up, you'll have the chance to compete against other schools in our Paper Planes competition and have your score added to the leaderboard.
In their teams, pupils will create the best paper airplane they can, and fly them to see who's goes the furthest. The winning team will have a video submission of their 2nd flight to be in with a chance of being crowned the Ultimate Classmasters.
How your support can make a difference
In 2023/24, there were almost 200,000 Childline counselling sessions with children and young people.
In 2023/24, our Helpline responded to over 75,600 contacts from people with concerns about a child's welfare.
In 2023/24, we reached almost 1.4 million children in 5,600 schools through our Speak out Stay safe programme.
