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Number Heroes competition winners 2023!

5 Jul 2023

We are thrilled to announce the winners and runners-up for the National Numeracy Day 2023 Number Heroes competition!

Image showing the six winners' entries, with text saying "Number Heroes competition winners!

National Numeracy Ambassador Bobby Seagull invited children across the UK to show us all the different ways they will use numbers when they grow up – and they delivered! We saw everything from scientists to sunbathers, deep-sea divers to dentists, and even a trampolinist or two!

We had six categories so that everyone aged 3 to 13, as well as children and young people in receipt of SEN support or an EHCP, could enter to win one of six prize bundles worth over £1,000 for their school. These prize bundles were made possible thanks to generous donations from Black & White Publishing, KPMG, Numberblocks, Numbots, Oxford University Press, Times Tables Rock Stars, and White Rose Maths.

Bobby faced a difficult decision choosing only six winners from the 10,000 incredible 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 and communities all feeling number confident:

Pre-School: Chloe, Meadows Day Nursery
Primary A: Isaac, Bicton CE Primary School
Primary B: Deborah, Beis Yaakov Primary School

Primary C: Rishi, Fairfield Prep School
Secondary A: James, Southend High School for Boys
SEND/EHCP: Vanesa, Five Acre Wood School

Amelia, Whitchurch Primary School
Archie, Canon Burrows CE Primary School
Emily, Hurst Primary School
Florry, Sidmouth College
Freya, Nine Mile Ride Primary School
Jai-Han, Chase Bridge Primary School

Jesse, Overfields Primary School
Leah, Newtown Community Primary School
Lillie, Bedminster Down School
Luca, St Andrew's Primary School
Madeeha, Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School
Oscar, St Paul & St Timothy's Catholic Infant School

Scarlett, St Ann's Heath Junior School
Seren, The Burgate School and Sixth Form
Theo, Nine Mile Ride Primary School
Tyler, Compass Community School Willow Park
Wilfred, Newcastle Prep School
Zoey, Mosshead Primary School

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