Open Evening 2013

Huge thanks to everyone that came to open evening last night!

We were very impressed by the number of our year 5 students who were able to answer our "Golden Question" from the year 5 lesson on Tuesday.

The question we asked them was...
What is 2 divided by 7 (mod12)
An amazing number of students were able to give us the correct answer; with the correct reasons.

To see the results of our Boys vs Girls competitions, and to see if people really could tell the differecne between value chocolate and Dairy Milk, or two different brands of orange squash, go to our Open Evening minisite here...
https://sites.google.com/site/jbsmathsopenevening/

10BB Assembly - How children get to school around the world.

We decided that too many of us don't fully appreciate the fantastic education that we get.

This assembly shows how much some children appreciate their education, and how determined they are to get to school.  If in a few years we are competing for jobs against these people, how much harder will they have worked than us?

This assembly was inspired by a post on Google+ by +Ali Adelstein.  You can see the source material, and find out a lot more about all of the pictures at https://plus.google.com/117520666412794415990/posts/eATMjyKdd93

Year 11 and 13 Study Leave.

From Friday 24th May year 11 and 13 are on study leave.

Despite this, the exams are not until mid June.  Exact dates are...

Year 11 Linear exams are 11th and 14th of June
Year 11 Unit 3 is Monday 17th June

For Y13, C3 is on the 13th of June
C4 is on the 18th of June.

Lessons will continue right up until the exams.  For year 11 this is whenever you have maths on your timetable.  You will be able to come in and get help with your maths revision.

For Year 13, you are more than welcome to come in at any time, but there are certain times when we will be most available; when either group would have maths.  Those times are...

Exams 2013 - what you need to get

With exams approaching fast, it is crucial you have an idea of what marks you will need in the exams to achieve the grade you want.

(If any of these calculators or resources stop working, can you please let me know by following this link).

Year 10:

You are doing GCSE Statistics this year.  Once you have your Controlled Assessment mark you can use This Calculator to work out what mark you need in the exam, for your target grade.

[If you are in Mr Smy's S1 class, use the A level links below...]

Year 11:

Your Unit 2 resits marks arrive in school on Thursday 18th April.  Once you know all of that you can use This Calculator to work out what you need in the final exam.

[If you are also doing Linear GCSE, then you can find the grade boundaries for Higher Tier here, and for Foundation tier here].

Year 12 and 13:

The grade boundaries, UMS converters, and AS/ A level calculators are all still on this site here.

Year 8 Item Exchange PSHEE

Another frantic PSHEE day from the Economic well being team has seen students buying and selling resources, before producing an advertising campaign for products as diverse as Mr Men Biscuits, Mouthwash and Hair Gel!

With points available in equal measure for both the creativity of the pitch, and the accuracy of the account keeping there were a range of skills being learnt and tested.

Here are the team scores!
This was also a house competition, and the house scores are...

Massive congratulations all round, for a fantastic day. If you took part in the day, why not leave a comment saying which bit you enjoyed the most? If you won, what do you think the key strategy was?

Year 9 Guided choices

Thursday 21st February is the Y9 guided choices evening.

Here is our presentation about GCSE Maths, Statistics, and Functional Maths.

Questions?  Talk to Mr Smy, Mr Darton, or your Maths teacher.

Maths Challenges

It has been a busy week for Maths students.

On Tuesday February 5^th eight intrepid year 7 set off for a Maths Challenge day at St Mary’s School.  There were teams from secondary schools across Wiltshire, and here is what our students have said about the day.

“The day was fun and interesting; the maths was very challenging” – Sanna Seager (7BB – Kerry)

“I particularly enjoyed the crossword puzzle – we really needed good teamwork”  Matt Evans (7BT – Shelbourne)

“The whole day was really good, but I especially enjoyed the reley, working as a team to get the answers” – Amber Barrett (7BE – Fitzmaurice)

“The entire day was good, and it made us realise how much more maths there is to learn” – John Cook (7BE – Shelbourne)

“It was a really good day, and I particularly enjoyed the relay” – Harriet Brown (7BE – Fitzmaurice)

“I really had fun working as a team” – Leah Kent (7BN – Shelbourne)

“I was disappointed we didn’t win, but am really proud of how hard we worked and tried” – Adam Richards (7BE – Lansdowne)

“It was a fun day, and it was great to work against lots of new schools”  Molly Shearsby (7BE – Lansdowne)

Mrs Willoughby took the teams over the St Marys, and was very impressed with their behaviour, determination and effort.  A level Mathematicians Mike Willkins and Lydia West also went with them, and were similarly impressed, with Lydia commenting “the maths they were asked to do was really challenging!”


Thursday saw 59 students from Y9 and Y10 take part in the UK Intermediate Maths Challenge.  More details about that when the results are in.