CensusAtSchool National Competition - Closing data 1st March 2011

 The 2011 CensusAtSchool National Competition is now closed - However your class can still take part in the Phase 10 questionnaire and use all the linked lesson plans and resources. 

Contribute data, a poster and have some fun…win a Netbook for your School!  

What is the 2011 CensusAtSchool National Competition? 

1. Get as many learners in your school as possible to complete the Phase 10 CensusAtSchool online questionnaire,  CensusAtSchool National Competition Get Started

2. Encourage your learners to ask a parent, guardian or carer to answer six very short questions that will also be entered into the online questionnaire;

3. Send one electronic poster to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it before 1st March 2011. This poster can be created electronically or be a digital photograph of a paper poster. The theme of the poster should be based on one of the following:

• data learners have collected themselves;
• data from other sources (e.g. from CensusAtSchool, Office for National Statistics or other relevant secondary data sources);
• censuses, (eg the history of the census, family trees, history of names).

Please send only one poster from your school.

Judging criteria for the poster

Further details on the 2011 Census and the 2011 CensusAtSchool Project

Find a free CensusAtSchool CPD session near you

How can your school win the competition? 

There are 10 Netbooks to be won!  One Netbook will be awarded to a winning school in each of the former nine Regional Development Agency (RDA) regions in England and one Netbook will be awarded to the winning school in Wales.

At the end of February 2011 for each secondary school within England and Wales that has input responses to the online CensusAtSchool Phase 10 questionnaire and has submitted an electronic poster to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , the following will be taken into account:

• the number of online CensusAtSchool Phase 10 questionnaire responses will be calculated as a percentage of the total school roll;
• the posters produced will be judged and awarded a score;
• the percentage and the score will be combined to a Total Score.

The winning schools will be those with the highest Total Score in their RDA region.  Should there be a tie the school with the highest percentage of parents, guardians or carers who have completed the extra six questions will win.

All winning posters will be placed electronically on the CensusAtSchool and RSSCSE web sites with appropriate recognition given to each school.

Prizes for 2011 CensusAtSchool National Competition include:

• Netbooks;
• one-year subscriptions to the journal Teaching Statistics;
• mathematics and statistics software;
• travel and subsistence to attend CensusAtSchool workshops;
• opportunities for continuing professional development by working with the RSSCSE;
• possible Royal Statistical Society recognition in its 10-year statistical literacy campaign getstats;
• 10% off the course fee for the Certificate in Teaching Statistics up to Pre-university Level.