Head's Newsletter 5 May 2017

TIFFIN JUNIOR DANCE COMPANY NEWWORK

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AT INTERMEDIATE MATHS OLYMPIAD

On 16 th March, 30 students took part in the UKMT Intermediate Maths Olympiad, the follow on round for students, usually in Years 9-11, performing within the top 500 in each year group nationally in the Intermediate Maths Challenge. The paper was 2 hours, consisting of 6 demanding maths questions. Have a go at one of them below! The results were our best on record by a considerable margin, with 8 boys achieving a Distinction, of which 6 boys achieved a ‘medal’ and 4 boys achieved a ‘Book Prize’. The last of these achievements is particularly exceptional, reserved only for the top 50 in each year group nationally. These were awarded to Ojas Gulati (Year 7), Christian Cases (Year 9), Vincent Trieu (Year 11) and Navonil Neogi (Year 11). We particularly congratulate newcomer Ojas Gulati, who achieved a perfect score of 60/60. We are, as ever, incredibly proud of the boys’ achievement.

On Tuesday 2 nd May Tiffin Junior dance company (Year 8 dancers) started working with choreographer Shaun Dillon on a specially commissioned piece, which will be performed at Rose Theatre Kingston on Saturday 17 th June. Watch this space!

A question from this year’s Year 9 Olympiad: We write ‘pq’ to denote the two-digit integer with tens digit p and units digit q . For which values of a, b, and c are the two fractions ‘ab’ and ‘bc’ equal and different from 1? ‘ba’ ‘cb’

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