A talented group of youngsters at The James Oglethorpe Primary School are feeling very proud of themselves and quite rightly so. They have achieved high results in a national Maths Challenge.

Their talents were recognised by teachers and so they were entered into the UK Junior Mathematical Challenge which is aimed at the top third of pupils in Year 8 (secondary school level) or below in the country.

Certificates are given only to the top 40% of children nationally.

This year, one of our pupils, Rosie  at only 11 years of age, achieved Gold level which puts her in the top 7% of pupils who entered in the UK. Well done Rosie, an amazing achievement.

A silver certificate was awarded to Bailey and bronze certificates were awarded to Ciaran , Daragh , Amy  and Arbi.

We send our congratulations to all those who participated in the UK Mathematical Challenge quiz. “This is a marvellous achievement for our pupils reflecting our high standards and the challenges being set in Mathematics here”, said Headteacher, Ms Deborah Rowles.

Mrs Rogers, Chair of Governors, at the school in Ashvale Gardens, Cranham, said that the pupils had done extremely well and should be very proud of their result and themselves. The school should also be proud of its continuing successes in the Maths arena.

To celebrate Harry Potter Day, Class 12 had a magical maths lesson to fit in with their learning on data this week. We decided to sort ourselves into the Hogwarts houses through a quick quiz. Using the results we then created a tally graph to show this data clearly. After that we transferred it onto our bar graphs. To add to the magic, we had our Harry Potter music playing in the background whilst we learned!

Class 5 were very busy one morning last week talking about the properties of shapes.

The children made a right angle detector and went on a hunt around the classroom.

Then they found lots of things in their classroom that have a right angle.