Worldwide pancake flip championship - feb 21st to Mar 14th
The Rules of Pancake Flipping!
It’s time for our next Junior Duke World Championships!
This challenge is linked to two levels of the Junior Duke:
Silver Mini Duke – Making a hot breakfast
Bronze Junior Duke – Baking something tasty
Wherever you go in the world, pancakes are a favorite! So, for this championship, we’re testing your pancake-flipping skills!
How many times can you flip a pancake—or a pancake-shaped object—in just 20 seconds?
It doesn’t need to be an actual pancake! You can use:
a Roti
a rubber spot from your PE cupboard,
a foam discus
or anything round, flat, and flippable!
For flipping, try using:
A pancake pan
A sports bat or racket
Or you can even flip with a book—it all works!
How to Enter:
Ask children to practice flipping at home and be recorded flipping for 20 seconds. They must count each flip (if they flip a double, it still counts as just 1).
Once they have recorded their best attempt, they should email their teacher with their name and flip count.
The school will select the top 10 flippers in each of the categories and, at this point collect their videos.
The Lead Teacher should then head to the Junior Duke website to submit the school’s total flips and the 10 short videos of your top flippers!
Entry Categories:
YOUNGEST - Year 3 & YOUNGER (best ten flip counts added together)
MIDDLE - Years 4-6 (best ten flip counts added together)
OLDEST - Years 7-8 - Ony one winner will be crowned champ
MIXED (for smaller schools) – Any 10 pupils up to Year 8 (best ten flip counts added together)
STAFF - One staff member will be will be crowned the world champion.
Deadline for entries: March 14th!
So get practicing, get flipping, and let’s see which school, in which country, will be crowned Junior Duke Pancake Flip World Champion!
About our past Championships
Thank you for taking part!
The junior duke award Online shop
We have everything you need to run the Award available to buy on the site. You can purchase packs for all age groups in your school. For the primary school levels, each pack contains a workbook, certificate and badge. Children take pride in their hand-written self reflections and enjoy discussing their new skills and colourful workbooks with teachers and families.
The two Senior Duke levels include access to our senior portal plus a certificate and badge.
We are looking to stock accessories and apparel soon!
