Schools' Challenge

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Schools' Challenge
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Founded1977 in Marlborough, Wiltshire
Headquarters
Hampstead, London
,
United Kingdom
Key people
  • Robert and Allison Grant
    (Organisers 2022-)
  • Ben Mooney
    (Co-Organiser 2022-23)
  • Sue and Paul Sims
    (Organisers 1985-2022)
  • Colin Galloway
    (Founder and Organiser 1977-85)
ServicesTournament organisation, question writing
OwnersRobert and Allison Grant

Schools' Challenge is the primary national general knowledge competition for schools in the United Kingdom, founded by Colin Galloway in 1977 and currently overseen by Robert and Allison Grant. Intentionally based off University Challenge, [1] , it has a notable resemblance to quizbowl competitions in its question content and format. Schools' Challenge is currently divided into Senior, Intermediate and Junior competition sections, which take place annually, [2] and The Perse School are the current overall champions having won all sections available in 2023. [3]

Contents

History

Early years (1977-1985)

Schools' Challenge was originally set up by Marlborough College teacher Colin Galloway in 1977 as a schools' version of University Challenge, conforming to the same rules- only split into separate Junior and Senior divisions, with 'juniors' being from prep school years and 'seniors' being from Year 9 to Year 13. With questions written in-house and then mailed to local coordinators who would organise regional tournaments to supply a national final competition (and who would also receive a percentage of the profits in exchange for their services), Schools' Challenge soon spread quickly across the UK. It capitalised on the dearth of widespread extracurricular activities in the country at the time, [4] and its popularity grew beyond its roots: although originally involving only private schools like Marlborough, it saw its first champion from a state school in 1983 in the Senior division in the form of King Henry VIII School, Abergavenny.

Classical era (1985-2020)

In 1985, Schools' Challenge was taken over by Sue and Paul Sims, [5] who would run the competition for the next thirty-seven years [5] and become its best-known figures in the process. Under their stewardship, the competition would grow to over three hundred participants, and a number of rules still in place today were established. Bonus rounds were changed from being worth five points apiece to worth ten points, a 'plate' repechage competition would be made available for losing national quarter-finalists, a limit of two older (Year 11 and above) students per team was applied to the Senior competition [1] and Schools' Challenge would become reliably divided into the sixteen regions [6] that would send schools to the eight-team National Finals every year.

The 21st century would see the first team from outside Great Britain win in 2002 in Abbey Christian Brothers' Grammar School, and the rise of a clutch of elite schools who would come to dominate Schools' Challenge in the years to come: between 2003 and 2012 only three schools would win the Senior championship (most notably, prestigious Westminster School winning an unprecedented five times in a row between 2005 and 2009) and between 2011 and 2020, The Perse School would win the Junior championship seven times out of nine. This emergence of dominant schools coincided with a growing industry of time and money around Schools' Challenge, with schools collecting decades' worth of question sets, buzzer sets for practice being increasingly imported at substantial cost from abroad and one company, Jaser Electronics, even becoming a bespoke supplier of buzzer equipment for ambitious teams before dissolving in 2017. [7] Some have argued these changes benefited wealthy schools such as Westminster or the Perse, who were able to capitalise on the increasing opportunities and recognition Schools' Challenge came to enjoy, while some have argued their success was instead due to a general stagnation of competition growth to other schools in later years leading to the entrenchment of an 'elite' group of successful teams.

Recent developments (2020-)

Pandemic and its fallout (2020-22)

The COVID-19 pandemic would lead to substantial adaptations for Schools' Challenge. The 2019-20 Schools' Challenge year would be curtailed, with the usual inter-regional round of sixteen teams turned into a 15-minute rapid quiz before the National Finals became the first (and only ever) to be held on Zoom, with Westminster School and The Perse School triumphing in the shortened Senior and Junior competitions. The continuing pandemic would furthermore lead to the complete cancellation of the 2020-21 season, [8] before Sue and Paul Sims returned for a final year. Their retirement in 2022 [5] would mean only the third ever directorial change.

Ben Mooney and Robert Grant (2022-23)

After a substantial period of uncertainty, Ben Mooney, head of Northern Ireland-based BM Quizzing [9] partnered with former regional organiser Robert Grant to acquire the properties of Schools' Challenge from Sue and Paul Sims in November 2022, before formally re-launching the competition in January 2023. With the old system of regional organisers and in-person hosts not revivable, [10] Ben Mooney in particular oversaw a radical overhaul of Schools' Challenge- social media channels [11] were set up, more popular culture questions were added to question sets and an all-new website (the first ever) in particular [12] was designed to help modernise and expand a competition that had effectively not been in decades. With a now-shrunken field of less than a hundred schools [5] despite the new acceptance of 'B' and 'C' teams, preliminary rounds were staged nationally online, and the Junior and Senior National Finals were then successfully played in June that year [5] with the Perse School winning both tournaments. [3]

Robert and Allison Grant (2023-)

However, Ben Mooney would leave Schools' Challenge that summer due to personal commitments, handing over sole control to Robert Grant with his wife Allison and marking a third management in three seasons. They are currently overseeing the 2023-24 season, having continued the online staging of preliminary rounds adopted the year before, with the latest National Finals due in Spring 2024. Changes have continued, such as the moving of the Plate competition to the second round and the implementation of a three-tier age system by introducing an Intermediate section, removing the rule allowing Junior players to play in the Senior competition in the process.

Competition structure

Schools' Challenge is for students of secondary school age (11–18 years old in the UK), who make up teams of four players each. Senior Schools' Challenge is open to students in their last three possible years of secondary school (ages 15-18), with a maximum of two students in their final year of school per team of four to both curtail the potential dominance of the oldest students and limit the disadvantage of schools which may lack sixth forms. Intermediate Schools' Challenge is open to students in their middle two years (ages 13-15), and Junior Schools' Challenge is open to students in their first two years of secondary school (ages 11-13). Schools currently pay an annual rate to enter teams into these competitions, with the maximum rate being £100 for two teams in each tournament.

The competition is divided this way, in part, because of the incongruence between the private school system and grammar/comprehensive schools' systems, where the last two years of preparatory school align with the first two years of usual secondary school- with the historical and current predominance of private schools in the competition, this allowance is more important than it would be otherwise. This division also allows younger students to compete on a more equal footing with one another and is designed to prevent certain age groups from dominating the competition.

The competition presently begins with preliminary rounds played online- the question set used for each tournament's round is sent to a 'host' teacher (generally the coach of one school's team) before a match is played via either Zoom or Microsoft Teams. These matches are knockout, but if a team loses in the first round they drop into their section's Plate competition, where knockout matches are then played for a secondary trophy. Anywhere between three and five matches may be played (depending on the number of schools) before the field is reduced to eight teams per section, and an in-person National Finals is scheduled. This takes place at a host school, and has customarily taken place in London since 2019.

Question content

Question content often echoes the types of questions seen in University Challenge, with an approximate mixture of history, geography, arts, literature, sciences, popular culture and current events. However, uniquely a notable amount of non-academic content is often asked on, with questions on wordplay and calendar dates common: [13] this is more a phenomenon seen in British pub quizzes which has become more and more prevalent in recent years. Furthermore, unlike quizbowl competitions in the US, there is no public set distribution, meaning the content match-to-match can often appear almost random in its selection.

Match structure

Matches are played with similar rules to the TV show University Challenge. [1] Short, often one-line 'starter' questions are asked to all contestants and the quickest to buzz in using their individual buzzer must answer immediately on behalf of their team (or the full question is passed to the other team). The team that correctly answers a buzzer question is then asked a round of three 'bonus' questions in succession, often related to the starter question in topic, [14] which they may confer on for a maximum of 10 seconds. Furthermore, in contrast to University Challenge:

Equipment

An online buzzer platform is used for online matches, [10] while 8-player lockout buzzers are ideally used for in-person matches. The latter may supplied by tournament organisers if the hosting school cannot supply the equipment. Tournament rules do not specify a manufacturer, and many schools make their own but the now-obsolete Jaser Quizmaster system is still common in many schools. [1] Questions were originally manually written and mailed to readers and organisers, [1] but are now digitally transmitted.

The use of an electronic scoreboard, which can be projected onto an interactive whiteboard or screen, is commonplace in both online and in-person matches, with the size of the scoreboard generally increasing as the tournament progresses.

Notable successes

The most successful school in the Senior competition's history is Westminster School, who have won nine times- all in the last twenty years. [5] Concurrently, the most successful school in the Junior competition, and the only school to have won both the Senior and Junior competitions in the same season (2014, 2019 and 2023) is The Perse School, Cambridge. [3] Other historically successful schools in both Junior and Senior competitions include Maidstone Grammar School, Hereford Cathedral School, and King Edward's School, Birmingham. Furthermore, Lancaster Royal Grammar School are the most successful state-funded school in Schools Challenge history, with three wins apiece in both Senior and Junior competitions- a significant achievement considering the dominance of well-funded private schools like Westminster. However, the achievement of schools can often be changeable due to the natural turnover of students, and it is not uncommon to see a school do well in the competition for the first time in many years.

There has historically been a comparative lack of female players and all-female teams in particular in Schools' Challenge- in 2023, just one out of thirty-two Senior National players was female. So far, the only all-female teams ever to qualify for the Senior National Finals (four times in all) have been from Bournemouth School for Girls. BSG's 2019 team is to date the most successful all girls' team in the Senior competition's history, having won the Plate Final that year. All-female teams have been rather more successful in the Junior competition, with most notably King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham winning in 1987 and 2005.

Competition history

Senior Schools' Challenge

YearWinners [5] Runners-upPlate winners
1977 Trinity School, Croydon unknownunknown
1978 King Edward's School, Birmingham Trinity School, Croydon unknown
1980 King Edward's School, Birmingham unknownunknown
1981 Monmouth School unknownunknown
1982 Brentwood School unknownunknown
1983 King Henry VIII School Abergavenny unknownunknown
1984 Monmouth School Bury Grammar School unknown
1985 Norwich School unknownunknown
1986 Royal Grammar School, Guildford Stamford School unknown
1987 Dean Close School unknownunknown
1988 The Grange School Royal School Dungannonunknown
1989 Aylesbury Grammar School unknownunknown
1990 King Henry VIII School unknownunknown
1991 Nottingham High School unknownunknown
1992 Bryanston School unknownunknown
1993 Maidstone Grammar School unknownunknown
1994 Maidstone Grammar School unknownunknown
1995 Maidstone Grammar School Lancaster Royal Grammar School Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby
1996 King Edward's School, Birmingham Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby unknown
1997 Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby unknownunknown
1998 The King's School, Canterbury unknownunknown
1999 Devonport High School for Boys Royal Grammar School, Guildford unknown
2000 Colchester Royal Grammar School Royal Grammar School, Guildford Devonport High School for Boys
2001 The King's School, Canterbury King Edward's School, Birmingham Royal Grammar School, Guildford
2002 Abbey Christian Brothers' Grammar School Royal Grammar School, Guildford Woodbridge School
2003 King Edward's School, Birmingham George Heriot's School Woodbridge School
2004 King Edward's School, Birmingham Westminster School The King's School, Worcester
2005 Westminster School Bedford School Manchester Grammar School
2006 Westminster School Solihull School George Heriot's School
2007 Westminster School unknown Nottingham High School
2008 Westminster School Manchester Grammar School Abingdon School
2009 Westminster School Lancaster Royal Grammar School Solihull School
2010 Lancaster Royal Grammar School The King's School, Worcester Abingdon School
2011 King Edward's School, Birmingham Westminster School Lancaster Royal Grammar School
2012 Lancaster Royal Grammar School Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School Devonport High School for Boys
2013 Lancaster Royal Grammar School Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School Monmouth School
2014 The Perse School Hereford Cathedral School King Edward's School, Birmingham
2015 Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School King Edward's School, Birmingham Westminster School
2016 Westminster School King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys Lancaster Royal Grammar School
2017 The Perse School Lancaster Royal Grammar School Hereford Cathedral School
2018 Westminster School Lancaster Royal Grammar School The Perse School
2019 The Perse School Magdalen College School Bournemouth School for Girls
2020 Westminster School King Edward's School, Birmingham The Perse School
2021Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic--
2022 Westminster School The Perse School King Edward's School, Birmingham
2023 The Perse School King Edward's School, Birmingham Westminster School
2024TBCTBCTBC

Multiple winners- Senior

SchoolWinsYears
Westminster School 92005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022
King Edward's School, Birmingham 61978, 1980, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2011
The Perse School 42014, 2017, 2019, 2023
Maidstone Grammar School 31993, 1994, 1995
Lancaster Royal Grammar School 32010, 2012, 2013
Monmouth School 21981, 1984
The Kings School, Canterbury 21998, 2001

Intermediate Schools' Challenge

YearWinnersRunners-upPlate Winners
2024TBCTBCTBC

Junior Schools' Challenge

YearWinners [5] Runners-upPlate Winners
1980 Port Regis Prep School unknownunknown
1981 Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe unknownunknown
1982unknownunknownunknown
1983 Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School unknownunknown
1984 King's Hall School, Taunton unknownunknown
1985 Eagle House unknownunknown
1986 Nottingham High School unknownunknown
1987 King Edward VI High School for Girls unknownunknown
1988 Millfield Preparatory School unknownunknown
1989 Bablake School unknownunknown
1990 Exeter School unknownunknown
1991 St Peter's Church of England Aided School unknownunknown
1992 Hutchesons' Grammar School unknownunknown
1993 Dulwich College Preparatory School Chelmsford County High School for Girls unknown
1994 Hutchesons' Grammar School unknownunknown
1995 Lancaster Royal Grammar School unknownunknown
1996 King Edward VII School (King's Lynn) Dulwich College Preparatory School Holmwood House
1997 Devonport High School for Boys unknownunknown
1998 King Edward's School, Birmingham unknownunknown
1999 King Edward's School, Birmingham unknownunknown
2000 Prebendal School Woodbridge School Tockington School
2001 Bourne Grammar School George Heriot’s School The King's School, Rochester
2002 George Heriot’s School Colchester Royal Grammar School St John's on-the-Hill School
2003 Manchester Grammar School The King's School, Rochester Sandroyd School
2004 Milbourne Lodge Preparatory School Royal Belfast Academical Institution Beechwood Park School
2005 The Cathedral School, Llandaff George Heriot’s School The Pilgrims' School
2006 The Cathedral School, Llandaff The Junior King's School, Canterbury King Edward's School, Birmingham
2007 Lancaster Royal Grammar School Prebendal School Queen Mary's Grammar School
2008 Lancaster Royal Grammar School Queen Mary's Grammar School Milbourne Lodge Preparatory School
2009 Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby Magdalen College School Devonport High School for Boys
2010 Dollar Academy The Pilgrims' School, Winchester The Cathedral School, Llandaff
2011 The Perse School The Pilgrims' School, Winchester Lancaster Royal Grammar School
2012 The Perse School Dragon School Hutchesons' Grammar School
2013 Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School The Perse School Dulwich College Preparatory School
2014 The Perse School Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School Dulwich Prep London
2015 Dulwich Prep London The Perse School Nottingham High School
2016 The Perse School George Heriot's School Nottingham High School
2017 Royal Grammar School, Guildford King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon George Heriot's School
2018 The Perse School George Heriot's School St Olave's School, York
2019 The Perse School unknownunknown
2020 The Perse School Dragon School, Oxford King's School, Rochester
2021Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic--
2022 King Edward's School, Birmingham The Perse School unknown
2023 The Perse School Magdalen College School City of London School
2024TBCTBCTBC

Multiple winners- Junior

SchoolWinsYears
The Perse School 82011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023
Lancaster Royal Grammar School 31995, 2007, 2008
King Edward's School, Birmingham 31998, 1999, 2022
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School 21983, 2013
Dulwich College Preparatory School / Dulwich Prep London*21993, 2015

* Dulwich Prep London had previously been known as Dulwich College Preparatory School.

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