Number Day 2020 resources
It's maths but not as you know it!
Thank you for registering to take part in Number Day on Friday 7 February 2020 and helping us as we celebrate 20 years of NSPCC Number Day.
We've got everything you need to make maths fun and support your school's fundraising events and activities.
You'll receive your Number Day welcome pack and promotional posters in the post soon. You can also download all of this year's resources below.
Help us in making 2020 the biggest year yet!
Getting started
Planning your Number Day is as easy as 1, 2, 3:
- put the date in your diary – Friday 7 February 2020 (or another date that suits your school!)
- plan your activities and fundraising – get your whole school involved! There are lots of ways you can have fun with numbers - we've got your favourite activities, and new activities for all ages.
- spread the word – we've sent posters to your school and you can download more below. Take a look at our assembly plan, promotional posters and letter to parents for easy ways to promote your Number Day and raise money to keep children safe.
Please bookmark this page as all Number Day resources and activities can be found here. If you need any support, please email numberday@nspcc.org.uk
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Maths activities
Dress up for digits
Simply ask your pupils and staff to wear an item of clothing with a number on it and bring in a suggested donation of £2.
This can be a sports shirt or cap, even a onesie. Or why not get more creative as a dice or calculator!
It's a great opportunity to get your local press involved and to come along and take a photo of the whole school.
Promotional materials and fundraising resources
Let everyone know that your school is taking part and make it a real success.
As soon as we receive your kind donation, we'll send you a thank you letter and certificate to display in your school. You can download individual certificates for children here.
Make your fundraising even more magnificent with some colourful bunting.
New Bunting
Assembly plan, presentation and videos
The best way to involve everyone at school is to hold a special assembly to launch your event.
Our assembly plan, presentation and videos can help you to explain the work of the NSPCC and why you've chosen to support our work through fundraising.
Why your support counts
We rely on funding from amazing people in schools across the country, who like you, believe that every childhood is worth fighting for.
By getting your pupils involved in fundraising, you're helping us keep children like Sophie safe from abuse.
Help us in our fight for every childhood. You can download our sponsor forms below to raise money or ask your pupils to bring in a donation to take part in the activities.
Keeping Children Safe Online:
Activities and Resources
For more resources to help your school keep children safe, explore our free teaching resources and lessons plans
Ideas from your peers
Every year we are amazed by the inspirational fundraising ideas that schools come up with. Take a look at some of our favourite activities below:
Cake Take Away - pupils and parents bake and sell cakes with a number theme.
5 a Day – pupils are sponsored to eat their healthy 5 items a day over a week.
Digit diner - pupils organise a café/diner day with food and drinks: from devising a menu, costing it, putting together the price list, advertising and serving.
Snakes and Adders – pupils are sponsored for the number of minutes they play snakes and ladders
Monopoly Marathon – pupils are sponsored for the number of minutes they play Monopoly
Bingo Bongo – work out the answers to a series of questions and cross the number off the bingo card
Domino Drive – pupils play dominos in groups of 4. Winners from each group play each other and so on until there is a Domino Champion
Piles of pounds – pupils build towers out of coins and measure the height and mass
Shape up! – pupils and teachers have a sponsored wake up and shape up workout session creating fun shapes
Pounds around – how many coins does it take to surround the hall or school?
Teacher sums – teachers wear numbers – pupils answer simple questions such as Mrs Smith (10) + Mr Jones (5) = 15
What's the score? – get sponsored for sports. Why not play pupils v teachers?
Pay your money in
We'll send all registered schools a paying-in form that'll tell you how you can donate the money you've raised to the NSPCC. If you haven't received this within two weeks of registering, please let us know by emailing: numberday@nspcc.org.uk.
Please donate the money raised from your Number Day by Friday 6 March 2020. As soon as we receive your kind donation, we'll send you a thank you letter and certificate to display in your school.
Thanks to our partners
The Man Charitable Trust is Man Group’s philanthropic trust, which focuses its grant giving on literacy, numeracy and programmes that help disadvantaged people.
Its work helps disadvantaged people engage with education and build the
necessary skills to improve their life
chances and employment prospects.
Oxford University Press has once again teamed up with the NSPCC to provide exciting Number Day activities.
These have been designed to have clear links to the maths curriculum and also put the fun into fundraising!
Maths on Toast is the family maths charity.
We want everyone to feel that maths is something they can do, and enjoy – so we're on a mission to give all families creative, human, social experiences of maths.
