Kip Competitions
Dave & Sue are excited to share our Easter 2025 Competitions with you. We know that students love to engage with them. Thank you, especially to Parents who’ve encouraged/ helped their children to take part in recent times. They may need a little help with some of these too.
It doesn’t matter whether your child attends Kip In Centre or Online. We always make the competitions available to all students on both platforms. Be sure to take a look at the details of how to enter each competition.
We’re delighted to share recent Winter competition winners with you. Please keep an eye on this page; this is where you get to keep up with our competition updates and winners’ details.
Winter 2024 Competition Winner Information
Guess the Number of Santa’s hiding in the Christmas Newsletter
Jess
Guess the Number of Chocolates
(Primary Winner)
Albert J
Guess the Number of Chocolates
(Secondary Winner)
Amreeta
Cinema Tickets Competition
Phoebe H
Easter 2025 Competitions
Guess the Number of Chocolates
(Primary & Secondary Aged Students)
We have two tubs of chocolates to give away. One will be awarded to a Primary school student and the second to a Secondary school student who guesses the actual number of chocolates or is closest to the actual number. Tell your teacher the answer.
Closing Date: 5th April 2025
Count the Number of
‘Easter Eggs’
(Primary Aged Students)
For Primary Aged Students
Count the number of Easter Eggs within our Easter Newsletter. Tell your teacher the answer.
Closing Date: 5th April 2025
Primary Aged Easter Puzzles
(Primary Aged Students)
Pick up your Easter Puzzle page in Centre and work your way through the puzzles. Make sure to hand your completed puzzles page in before the closing date.
Closing Date: 5th April 2025
Secondary Aged Easter Wordsearch
(Secondary Aged Students)
Pick up your Easter Puzzle page in Centre and work your way through the puzzles. Make sure to hand your completed puzzles page in before the closing date.
Closing Date: 5th April 2025
The Thando Ndlovu Maths Challenge Trophy
During the Summer of 2021, we received the truly devastating news that Thando had gone missing. The tragic outcome was that he had drowned whilst swimming with friends in the River Trent near Swarkestone. We will miss Thando hugely, but our heart and prayers go out to his extended circle of family and friends. It’s been said before, but Thando was a big shining star, who always put others before himself. We were privileged and honoured to have known him and to be involved with his funeral. We’re planning to create a memorial to him in the form of an annual Maths Challenge, the winner of which will be awarded the Thando Ndlovu Trophy for the year.
The challenge will be based on our iKip platform and will be age-appropriate, to ensure that everyone has the same chance of winning. It will take place over 4 weeks each January and will capture progress made with Times Tables. Even if students are only doing English at Kip, they will still have the opportunity to enter. Your child’s teacher will record the scores and then apply their knowledge of the student to arrive at a final score. There will be a prize for the “best” progress with each teacher and the overall winner will receive the Thando Ndlovu Maths challenge trophy to keep. We’re planning to run the competition each year in January.
You can see the overall winners (who get to keep the trophies) of the competition here. From 2025, a number of runner ups will receive individual medals to recognise their achievement. Congratulations to everyone who took part; once again, choosing the winners was a real challenge in itself.
2025 Winner
2024 Winner
2023 Winner
2022 Winner
Primary Winners
Sana
Runner Ups: Owen, Emily A, Abigail, Robin, Lucie, Emily S, Varnikha & Raheem
Lilly
Runner Up: Lucy
Jack
Seth
Secondary Winners
Rameen
Runner Ups: Jessica, Ashraf, Cruz, Luke, Frackson and Jack
Kassiah
Runner Up: Mariama
Mantasha
Shugoofa
We were really pleased that all students embraced the challenge, eagerly participating and striving to improve their personal scores. Many were supportive of their peers and really encouraging as others achieved new highs. The real positive for us was the improvement we witnessed in the students’ maths. For many, their proportional reasoning and mental maths improved significantly. We saw increased understanding, even of problem-solving as they were able to make associations with numbers due to a much better understanding of ratio and proportion. Many students being able to mentally multiply and divide quantities and better understand worded problems. It even helped them mathematically model scenarios. We could have easily underestimated the value of the multiplication tables. This is a lesson we will carry forward. It is so fitting and lovely that Thando continues to enrich the lives of Kip students and ourselves.