Head's Newsletter 21 June 2019

TEAM MATHS CHALLENGE

Congratulations go to the members of the team for all of the hard work that they put in to prepare and on the day to achieve such a fantastic result. GOLD MEDALS IN JUNIOR MATHS CHALLENGE On 30th April, 264 boys in Years 7 and 8 sat the Junior Maths Challenge, a maths exam taken by around 200,000 students across the UK. The exam consists of 25 multiple choice questions of increasing difficulty. The results are the School’s best yet: 134 Golds (thought to be the highest in the whole of the UK), 90 Kangaroo qualifiers and 9 Olympiad qualifiers. Only the top 6.7% of entrants nationally achieve a Gold medal, and roughly the top 0.5% for the Olympiad. Students have subsequently sat the follow on rounds and we eagerly await the results. A special congratulations goes to Lucas Bowman in 8KBA, who achieved the top score in the school. Tiffin has seen a dramatic increase in performance in the Junior Maths Challenge in the last 7 years, with almost three times as many Golds as the 49 achieved in 2012. Well done to our fantastic boys!

On Monday 17th June, the formidable team of Nathaniel Johnson, Arlo McKillop, Kai Jewson and Lucas Bowman set off to the Royal Horticultural Halls in Westminster to compete in the National Final of the Team Maths Challenge. Having breezed through to top place in their Regional Final in March, the team were up against 87 other schools.

They took part in four rounds, solving a succession of mathematical problems including a particularly frenetic final relay round. Working fantastically well as a team for six gruelling hours, they were placed 10 th overall: an amazing achievement given that over 1700 schools entered the competition this year.