Last week, some of our pupils (Upper 4: Clarisse Hui, Yuna Ko, Hailee Zhou and Ena Umpleby; Lower 4: Effie Rees, Shanaya Saxena, Sofia Shaikh and Annabelle Wong) had the exciting opportunity to take part in a maths competition at St Swithun’s School in Winchester. They travelled with great excitement, ready for a day full of challenges, teamwork, and problem-solving. Clarisse, Hailee and Ena gave their account of the day:
“The day started by travelling to St Swithun’s School. It was so big! There were three schools and two teams from each school. We started with the Relay Round where we had to answer each question and take it to the teacher while walking very quickly whilst not being allowed to run. It was competitive and exciting at the same time.
The next round was the Investigation Round where we learned about modular arithmetic: 5 mod 3 = 2. After enjoying some refreshments we then took part in Sudoku puzzles for more points and won the Sudoku prize (which was Celebrations and Haribos)!
The final round was a group round. We had to complete 10 questions in 30 minutes. It was a challenging day but we learned a lot and had much fun and travelled back enjoying our delicious prizes!”
LEH students excel in many national maths and STEM competitions, including recently the Junior Mathematics Challenge where an impressive 37 students achieved a Gold Award, three of which who qualified for a follow-on round and the Liverpool Maths Challenge where one of our Year 7 mathematicians won first place.
Maths at LEH
Our mathematicians tackle complex problems, explore elegant solutions, and compete nationally building confidence, rigour and a love of logical reasoning that underpins every STEM discipline. Maths plays a key role in the development of science, is fundamental to the study of engineering, underpins many social sciences and economic principles and is increasingly used in medicine.
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