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Directed by
  
Tony Grech-Smith

Country of origin
  
Britain

No. of series
  
2 + 2 specials

First episode date
  
12 September 2016

Number of episodes
  
20

Number of series
  
2

Composer(s)
  
Craig Brown

Original language(s)
  
English

No. of episodes
  
26

Presented by
  
Susan Calman

Language
  
English

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Genres
  
Children's television series, Game show

Similar
  
Rank the Prank, The Dumping Ground D, Got What It Takes?, Operation Ouch!, The Dengineers

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Top Class is a British children's quiz show hosted by Susan Calman. The show is produced by ITV Studios for CBBC that began on 12 September 2016. The show involves teams of children answering questions in the National Curriculum. A second series of 15 episodes has been confirmed and will start on 25 January 2017.

Contents

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Format

All primary schools across the UK were invited to enter Top Class, with a team of 4 pupils. All competitors are in year 6 (primary 7 in Scotland and Northern Ireland).

Each round includes questions taken from the National Curriculum Key Stage 2 as well as other rounds including a 'News' round with questions on topics from the wider world; a ‘pet subject’ round selected by the team and in one special round, the team nominate one of their teachers to play for them, the teacher must answer questions against the clock on popular culture.

The subjects includes Maths, English, Science, History, Geography and News. There is also Test the Teacher where the class' teacher answers pop-culture questions and Pet Subjects, where the class chooses a subject to be questioned on. Pet Subjects chosen include The Dumping Ground and Capital Cities.

References

Top Class Wikipedia