Junior Maths Challenge Results

Congratulations again to everyone of the 130 students that took part in last month’s Junior Maths Challenge.  Congratulations also to the many people who had a go at some of the questions though this blog.  The questions are still there so if you want to see how you would do on some of these challenging questions aimed at year 7 and 8 you still can!

The results came in last week, and so here are our most notable individual results...

Best In School: - Joe Packer (Year 8 Lansdown), who achieved a Gold award.

Also in Year 8, Gold certificates go to Megan Luschover (Shelbourne) and Mitchell Perrett (Lansdown).

Silver certificates in Year 8 go to Will Baguley (Lansdown), Oliver Bashford (Shelbourne), and Caleb Golding (Fitzmaurice).

Bronze certificates in year 8 go to ... 

Tom	Dean		Shelbourne
Jacob	Hurst		Fitzmaurice
Ned	Fellenor		Shelbourne
Katie	Reed		Lansdown
Emily	Bradfield		Fitzmaurice
Eloise	Holmes		Fitzmaurice
Harvey	Austin		Kerry
Tia	Reeves		Kerry
Charlotte	Davies		Shelbourne
Jack	Warren		Lansdown
George	Bowman		Kerry
Olivia	Cooper		Shelbourne
Emma	Reed		Lansdown
Callum	Glen		Lansdown

In Year 7 Jack Broadhead (Fitzmaurice) won best in year, and a silver certificate.  Rhys Brennan (Lansdown), and Harley House (Fitzmaurice) also achieved Silvers.  

Bronze certificates go to

Molly	Boswell	Shelbourne
Jesse	Bryant	Lansdown

As well as the individual successes above, this is a house competition, with every single student contributing to house points.  Here are the overall house scores.

Congratulations all around!

Junior Maths Challenge

Congratulations to the 130 Year 7 and Year 8 students who took part in today's Junior Maths Challenge from the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT).

Like the Intermediate Challenge earlier this year, the Junior challenge poses a wide range of questions, designed to test mathematical thinking, rather than simply remembering facts or techniques.

Whilst the challenge is an opportunity for students to shine individually (and we will let you know results as soon as they are in), this is also a House competition, and will contribute towards house points at the end of the year.

All questions are multiple choice, but for the harder questions guessing is very much discouraged by the unusual method of marks being taken away for wrong answers!  It is also entirely non-calculator, and although paper working is allowed (essential), apart from a pencil and rubber no other equipment is allowed.

Headline results will of course be published here and in the newsletter, but until they are here are a few questions from this year's paper to think about...

3.  Which of the following has exactly one factor other than 1 and itself?

     A 6       B 8     C 13     D 19      E 25




7.  A small ink cartridge has enough ink to print 600 pages.  Three small cartridges can print as many as two medium cartridges.  Three medium cartridges can print as many pages as two large cartridges.  How many pages can be printed using a large cartridge?


    A  1200       B 1350      C 1800     D  2400    E 5400

13.  In the multiplication grid on the right the input factors (in the first row and the first column) are all missing and only some of the products within the table have been given.  What is the value of A + B + C + D + E?


   A  132      B 145      C 161     D 178    E 193




20.  Aroon says that he is 50 years, 50 months, 50 weeks and 50 days old.  What age will he be on his next birthday?


   A 56     B  55         C  54          D 53      E 52




25.  The interior angles of a triangle are (5x+3y), (3x+20) and (10y+30), where x and y are positive integers.
What is the value of x+y?


A  15       B 14        C 13      D 12      E 11








If you want to have a go at these, feel free to submit your answers on the form below, and we'll let you know in due course how you've scored!









Good luck!

Year 8 PSHEE Stock Exchange

Congratulations to Year 8 for their wonderful efforts on the PSHEE day today.  Points were awarded to teams for two things...

Firstly how well they kept their accounts.  Perfect accuracy meant a score of 200, with 3 points lost for each pound difference between their actual money, and how much their accounts said they should have had!

Secondly was the quality of their presentations, how well they sold their products, again .with a top score of 200.

Here are how the teams did...

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This was also a House competition, and here are the house results...


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Well done to everyone!

World Education Games...

The World Education Games are here!  You have all been registered, and you will have your logins and passwords before half term.  Can anyone beat Kayliegh's magnificent 72 questions correct in 60 seconds?  Can we be the highest totalling school in Wiltshire?  Will your tutor group be victorious.

Get Practising now

www.worldspellingday.com

 www.worldmathsday.com

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Year 8 Enigma Challenge Day

10 intrepid year 8 came on a maths trip across to chippenham for a gifted and talented event looking at codes, code breaking and problem solving.

There were 5 sessions, a lecture from a very enthusiastic cambridge profesor, with a real working 2nd world war enigma machine, followed by 4 sessions that covered more code breaking, mystery solving, a celtic knot investigation, and problem solving games and puzzles.

Many thanks to Miss Wenban for organising the trip

Here's what some of the students thought.

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A group of year 8 travelled to Sheldon School to take part in the Enigma Maths Challenge which consists of puzzles, breaking codes, mysteries and solving problems.

The day started in the hall, we joined the other schools that were already there. A mathematician from Cambridge University came in with an enigma machine which was used in World War 2 to make and break codes. We all got the chance to see how the machine worked and it is the only one that is not in a museum.

The mathematician talked to us about his job and what we would be doing during the day. He talked to us that there are jobs that are just breaking codes and solving problems. Some of the best code breakers were used during the war to solve any codes that the Germans sent. After a while a machine was built so that the English could find out what the message said before the German officers knew what it said.

We learnt a lot about the enigma machine and how it worked at what different things mathematicians do as a job. The talk was very helpful and inspiring.

Kayleigh Roberts

[click here for a virtual enigma machine!]

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We did a lesson on code breaking with a mathematician from Cambridge University. He showed us lots of different methods to decipher codes for example very famous codes such as the caesar code. He gave us lots of different codes for us to work them out and decipher them. As we went along we got better and could handle more difficult ones so we definately learnt new skills and we will take them back to JBS. Overall the lesson and the whole day was very good and we had a great time!
Caoimhe Kelly

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Celtic Knots

Practical Puzzles