Issue 7 June 2020
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2 ∞ & Beyond!
“Our vision is to be the school of choice for our local community, developing successful young people with high aspirations, who show respect for all and endeavour to become the very best that they can be.”
Welcome Hello to all the students of the Roding Valley community. Just a message to encourage you all to keep moving forward with your home learning and to stay safe out and about. Mr Qureshi I am looking forward to seeing some of my Year 10 students back in school. It will be great to be able to offer more support to you as we head into Year 11. Although students took a while to get used to the new 'normal' there are a few that really impressed me with their work. Two students that stand out with the quality of their work are Zaki Khan and Deividas Peleckis. Well done and keep on going. Mr Vermaak
Student Work Excellent work this week from Bobbi Swaby in Year 7, working prime factorisation and fractions. Well done Bobbi!
UKMT Junior Maths Challenge The Junior Maths Challenge will take place on Monday 29th June for all students in the extension sets in Year 7 and 8. You will receive login details at 9 am in the morning via Google Classroom. The test will take place at 12:00 pm. To access the test paper, you will be given a link to follow and after you login you will have 60 minutes to complete the challenge. More instructions to follow on Google Classroom. Good luck to all!
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TT Rockstars Well done to everybody for taking part. Should you appear on the top 3 leader board each week for your class, you now have the bonus of earning your house some house points! So please make sure you are competing. TT Rock Stars is also a great way to practice your times tables proficiency and improve your recall speed. A very well done to our top three TT Rockstars users this week: 1. Enru Li – Year 7 2. Tara Uddin – Year 8 3. Dollie Edwards – Year 7 To see if you can make it on the leaderboard next week, head over to the TTRockstars website, www.ttrockstars.com. Your login details can be found on Edulink under the documents section. Contact your class teacher if you have any problems.
Meet the Numbers
Chess Corner So, I hope you saw the solution to the problem. It was a tricky one this time around! Getting a checkmate from this position requires Black to sacrifice their Queen. The first move is to move G7 to G3. The only move available to White is for White to capture Blacks queen with the Pawn F2 to F3. Black gets to checkmate white by capturing White's pawn with Black's pawn F4 to F3. White has nowhere to go. This week I have an advanced rule to share that not too many players know about.
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En Passant En passant is a move in chess. It is a special pawn capture that can only occur immediately after a pawn makes a move of two squares from its starting square, and it could have been captured by an enemy pawn had it advanced only one square. The opponent captures the just-moved pawn "as it passes" through the first square. The result is the same as if the pawn had advanced only one square and the enemy pawn had captured it normally.
Puzzling Puzzles 8×
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Your goal is to fill in the whole grid with numbers making sure no number is repeated in any row or column. Try solving this puzzle using the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. You can use them multiple times but only once in each row or column. The answer will be in the next Maths bulletin!
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Last week’s solution:
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You can find more puzzles to solve on www.kenkenpuzzle.com
Memorable Maths Meme Thank you to Alexander Patel for sending in this week’s memorable maths meme.
Do you have a maths meme you would like to share?
Email Miss Harbutt at eharbutt@rodingvalley.net and we might include it in the next issue!
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