It’s a tale of maths and English today as we catch up on each department’s most recent competitions and challenges!
In February, our Year 9 and 10 mathematicians received awards in the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust's Intermediate Mathematical Challenge. The challenge, open to Year 9, 10 and 11 students, promotes a love of problem solving and is a 60-minute, multiple-choice challenge.
Year 10 student, Nathan Wong, received a Gold Award, while Harry Perkins and Charlie Newman were our strongest Year 9 students, both receiving silver awards.
The maths department achieved a further four Silver Awards and seven Bronze Awards. This represented an increase of four certificates over last year.
Well done to all our Year 9 and 10 mathematicians who took part:
- Nathan Wong, Gold Award and Best in School
- B Maggs, Silver Award
- Harry Perkins, Silver Award
- Toby Jomar, Silver Award
- Luke Leamon, Silver Award
- Flynn Burrow, Silver Award
- Charlie Newman, Silver Award
- Samuel Swannell, Bronze Award
- O Whitcombe, Bronze Award
- Miley Vann, Bronze Award
- Seb Currie, Bronze Award
- Daniel Wray, Bronze Award
- R Stewart, Bronze Award
- O Thomas, Bronze Award
In English, for World Book Day on Thursday 6 March, the department challenged KS3 pupils and staff to create and submit a six-word story.
A six-word story is an entire story told in six words. It’s a short narrative that can have all the emotional themes of longer stories – from funny to dramatic, and sad to scary. While these quick stories don’t have the classic beginning, middle, and end of a traditional storyline, they have a subject and verb that give the reader a sense of what’s happened and a bit of conflict.
The most famous example of a six-word story is frequently credited to Ernest Hemingway (although there is little evidence that he actually wrote it!) -‘For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.’ In six words, a heartbreaking narrative is told – from the six words, but also by what is left out.
There were many fantastic entries which are now on display in the Great Hall! Well done to the following pupils and members of staff who won this year’s competition:
- P Holmes, Year 7: The brightness of her sun, set
- M Shanmuganathan: Painfully, they changed ‘is’ to ‘was’
- Mrs Pasmore, Admissions: Living life scrolling through other lives