News Category: Maths

The Maths department have done an amazing display at the end of the Maths Corridor. The display shows a cross with hundreds of origami birds (made by Mrs Payling!) in the school colours.

6 of our highest performing students have been successful in progressing to the next round of the UKMT Junior Maths Challenge, putting them in the top 25% of entrants. Congratulations to the following students:

We were delighted to see 252 of our Year 7 and 8 pupils entering this year’s UKMT Junior Maths Challenge – this is a record entry.

On Tuesday 5th March, eight of our Year 10 students enjoyed two and a half hours at a Maths Feast! Well done to both teams who were commended for scoring highly in all rounds!

Brilliant maths news! The results came in this week for this year’s UKMT Senior Maths Challenge. We have had some really excellent results with nearly 70% of our students achieving a certificate compared with 60% nationally. Over 82,000 pupils from across the UK entered. We have had 5 students who have been selected for the Senior Kangaroo (in the top 7000 […]

 The results came in yesterday for this year’s UKMT Senior Maths Challenge. We have had some really excellent results with 77% of our students achieving a certificate compared with 60% nationally. Over 82,000 pupils from across the UK entered. We have had 4 students who have been selected for the Senior Kangaroo (in the top […]

Eight students from the Associated Sixth Form took part in the maths team challenge in November. The two teams were faced with three gruelling rounds in a competition against twenty other schools. They worked well as individuals as well as a team, under intense time pressure, with difficult sums. Huge congratulations should go to both […]

One hundred and seventy seven of our Year 7 and 8 students took part in the Junior Maths Challenge in April and the results are now in! Year 7 achieved 2 Gold, 11 Silver and 28 Bronze awards. Year 8 achieved 7 Gold, 10 Silver and 17 Bronze awards. Two students also qualified for the Junior […]

On March 1st we took a team of four students to the Regional Finals for the UKMT Team Maths Challenge.  It was held at Lawnswood School in Leeds and there were 24 schools from across Yorkshire competing – a mixture of private and state schools.  Our team – Yvette Wong (Y9), Finlay Garnham (Y9), Rebecca Davis (Y8) […]

We had an enormous turn out this year with 135 students taking part in the Intermediate Maths Challenge – a part of the UK’s biggest national maths competition run by the UK Mathematics Trust.

Congratulations to all the students from Year 12 and 13 who took part in this year’s UKMT Senior Maths Challenge, 72% achieved a certificate compared with 60% nationally.