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Celebrating Success 24
We were delighted to celebrate This year we launched our ‘24’
with our outgoing Year 12 pupils competition for KS3 classes. If
their incredible achievements in you have never played the
their GCSE Maths exams. Al- game, it’s a bit like the numbers
most 58% of them achieved game on Countdown, you are
grades A* - C, a fitting reward presented with 4 numbers and
for their efforts throughout the you must use each number once
past two years. Not to be out- to make 24. You are allowed to
done, our Year 11 pupils per- add, subtract, multiply and di-
formed exceptionally well in vide as necessary. After some
their first GCSE module, leaving heats, Mr Crooks hosted the
them in an excellent position to grand finals in his classroom,
achieve further success in Year and the levels of mental Maths
12. on show were phenomenal. In
Year 10, Ruby Lorimer was

crowned as champion, defeat-
Numeracy News ing Cerys McFetridge in the fi-

Our provision of numeracy sup- nal. Ruby’s sister Zoe won the
port has, once again, had a sig- Year 9 competition, defeating
nificant impact on raising Conor Hamer in the final. In Year
achievement across all year 8 our champion was David Wil-
groups. Our timetable has al- son. He defeated Timmy Millar 4
lowed Mr John to focus on sup- -3 in a thrilling final.
porting our KS4 pupils as they
prepare for GCSE exams. We
continue to strive to draw the
links between Maths and the
range of mathematical content
that is embedded within a range
of other subjects.

Taster Day

Visiting P7 pupils once again
took part in a Valentine’s Maths
Relay Challenge as part of their
taster day. Teams of pupils
worked together to solve a vari-
ety of mixed problems, all of
which had a link to romance!
The groups were ably assisted
by our enthusiastic Maths ex-
perts from Sixth form.

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