The chess passport for your club or class.
Each child gets their own passport. You keep the stickers and hand them out as they are earned.
The website does the teaching and the testing; test sheets and the coach's manual cover your sessions.
What changes in your group
Children and parents
A skill they learned gets its proof in their own passport, and a friend's new sticker is the best reason to earn your own.
The passport goes home in a backpack, and "what did you do at chess today?" has an answer on the page.
Your club or school
New families get a program they can hold, with a first sticker in the first session.
And the children you have get a reason to come back next term.
Coaches and teachers
The stickers are your syllabus. Pick the skill, teach it, check it, award it. The interactive lessons and training are ready, as well as the printouts, so a session takes minutes to prepare.
Flip through a passport and you know where that child stands and which topic to teach next.
How it works in a group
In the session, use the interactive lessons and training on sjakkpass.com, on a screen or on the board, and the printed test sheets at the table.
Each Chess Skill ends with a test as White and as Black. When both are passed, the sticker turns to full color online, you hand over the printed sticker, and the child covers its grey shadow in the passport.
Activities and Achievements come from what you saw: a first full game, a friend taught to play, a first tournament. Each sticker's page says exactly what counts.
Between sessions, children keep training on sjakkpass.com with their own accounts.
Group sets and your own edition
Group sets
One set is for 24 children:
- 24 chess passports, one per child
- The stickers for all of them
- A 1-Year Sjakkpass VISUM for every child. What the VISUM opens
- A school code for the Teacher resources: test sheets and answer keys for every Chess Skill, ready to print.
Two sets cover a club of 40 and leave passports for the children who join mid-term.
Ordering opens on December 1. Group orders at launch get a second year of VISUM for every child.
Your own edition
Running chess across many schools or clubs? We can build an edition around your program. What can be tailored:
- Your own cover: text, logo, material and color
- The language
- The number of levels
- Which stickers go in
- New stickers made for your program
Tell us who the program is for and how many children it should reach, at fleur@sjakkpass.com. We agree content, production, price and delivery with you before you commit.
Clubs say
More than 50 chess clubs in Norway hand out the passport today. Three of them:
The passports have clearly been an important piece in our growth. They are a very good motivator for actually joining the club.
Stian Sandberg, Nittedal chess club
For Vestby as a new club, the chess passports are one of the reasons we have reached so many children. The children show real joy in learning, and motivation is high week after week.
Tore, Vestby youth chess club
I absolutely recommend the chess passport as a learning model for children's chess. It creates a tremendous drive to engage and to learn.
Øivind Jakobsen, Skjervøy chess club
Translated from Norwegian.