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Number Heroes competition winners 2022!

11 Jul 2022

This week the winners and runners-up for the National Numeracy Day 2022 Number Heroes competition were announced.

We expanded our Number Heroes competition for kids this year after the inaugural competition proved a runaway success in 2021. We were blown away by the standard of the 8,500 entries – a 49% increase on last year's entries!

Text saying "Number Heroes competition winners!" photos of the winning drawings

Our Ambassador Bobby Seagull invited children to create a picture of how they will use numbers in their lives when they grow up. We saw incredible pictures of vets, teachers, engineers and footballers, and many more.

And instead of just one prize, this year we offered six categories so that everyone aged 3 to 13 could aim to win one of six prize bundles worth over £1,000 for their school, thanks to the generosity of our supporters KPMG, Numberblocks, Maths Circle, Oxford University Press, and White Rose Maths. KPMG also sponsored a new SEND/EHCP category to ensure the competition was as inclusive as possible.

Bobby had a tough task choosing just 6 winners from the amazing entries, but after rounds of shortlists the following were chosen – winning a prize and certificate for themselves, as well as goodies to get their schools all feeling number confident:

Pre-School: Aariz, Templars Primary School
Primary B: Bronwen, Bolton School Junior Girls
Secondary A: Oskar, Harris Academy Morden

Primary A: Austrin, The Fairway School
Primary C: Emily, Hurst Primary School
SEND/EHCP: Teeyeh, Thomasson Memorial School for the Deaf

Aidan, Letham Primary School and ELCC
Aishani, Harper Green
Beth, St Teresa's Prep School
Charlotte, Maltese Road Primary School
Darcie, Letham Primary School and ELCC
Dawood, The Brent Primary School

Finn, Woodlands Infant School
Isabel, Portfield Primary Academy
Jacob, Hurst Primary School
Jacob, Iveshead School
Jasmeet, Nishkam High School
Joseph, Ravenshall School
Joshua, Beechwood Park School

Logan, Netherhall School
Madison, Woodhall Primary School
Matthew, Thomas Gainsborough School
Ruby, Lambourn CofE Primary School
Sophia, Wimbledon Chase Primary
Tilda, Appleton CE Primary School

You can see all of the wonderful drawings by the winners and runners-up in the gallery below, chosen for their imagination, great effort, and creative uses of numbers.