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Worcesterian | 2020/21
Worcesterian | 2020/21
Despite the obvious success of remote learning, pupils
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and teachers looked forward to the chance to come back to School in September to learn together in the classroom. They coped brilliantly with the demands of hybrid learning, another lockdown, and in the case of Year Eleven and
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Upper Sixth students, with the new assessment criteria for their GCSEs and A Levels - congratulations to them all. The social distancing rules inhibited the normal group tasks that are a staple of the Mathematics classroom, but with technology at hand, pupils were able to still share their learning, such as using DESMOS for demonstrating how to transform graphs and using iMovie to give a comprehensive explanation of how to construct an angle bisector.
an award with an incredible thirteen qualifying for the follow on Kangaroo Competition. Those pupils were Jonathan Abbotts, Rachel Crookall, Laurence Curtis, Sihan Fu, Cerys Hickman, Hugo Morgan-Iqbal, Jai Sanehi, Anya Wood, Noah Gent, Jacob Hartley, Thomas Newman, Aryan Peddareddy and Noah Fortunately, we were able to hold the individual Mathematics Challenges remotely this year, and the pupils produced some stellar performances. In the Senior Mathematics Challenge (Year Eleven to Upper Sixth), over 90% of the Upper Sixth who took the challenge achieved an award and there were 35 awards overall. We also had four students qualifying for the follow on rounds; Liam Leonard, Will Osborne and Raiwin Lewis qualified for the Kangaroo Competition and Adrian Fok qualified for the British Mathematical Olympiad. In the Intermediate Challenge (Years Nine to Eleven), fifty awards were achieved with Ben Fisher, Michael Liu, Haydn Parkes, Rayyan Styles and Raiwin Lewis qualifying for the follow on Kangaroo round. The Year Seven and Eight pupils were not to be outdone in the Junior Challenge, with 53 pupils achieving
Whitbread. We look forward to the resumption of some of our normal external activities next year, such as the Team Competitions and Maths in Action days at universities as well as getting back to eating some fantastic Pi Day treats!
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