An impressive total of 46 students from the U5th, L6th and U6th took part in this year’s Senior Maths Challenge, organised by the UK Mathematics Trust.
Theo Sharrock, Samuel Walsh, Mike Chen and Isabella Zhang all achieved the prestigious gold award, with Theo, Samuel and Mike qualifying for the British Maths Olympiad! I cannot remember the last time St Bede’s had three qualifiers going through to the next stage.
This is an outstanding achievement for all three as only the top few hundred candidates across the country qualify for the Olympiad stage. Isabella qualified for the ‘Senior Kangaroo’ which is the equivalent of the UEFA Cup (compared to the Champions League)!
Silver certificates went to Youngtaek Yu, Billy Fraine, Spencer Jiang, Hannah Hayes, Killy Zhao, Kofo Spaine, Rob Benson-May, Luke Webb and William Simpson.
Bronze certificates went to Anton Breen, Ben Totterdell, Alex Mannion, Sam Poikkimaki, Rob Gleave, Katherine Gillibrand, Jess McNamee, Michael James, Yolanda Yang, Yali Jiang and Lucy Charleson.
I was very pleased with the number of students who entered the Challenge and I am delighted with the success that they achieved, most notably the four who qualified for the follow on stages. All four are very talented mathematicians with bright futures ahead of them!
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