Cranford Review 2020

# MATHS
The
Continuing Outstanding Success of
Cranford Mathematics Department have had an amazing
year. In August 2019 we were delighted with the
exceptional GCSE results gained by our year 11 students with 29%
of students gaining grade 7 or above, 63 % gaining grade 5 or above
and 77% gaining grade 4 or above, compared to national averages at
the same grades of 15.9%, 39.7% and 59.6% respectively. We would
especially like to congratulate our 11 students who received a grade
9: Namra Ansar, Brahmnoor Brar, Neha Hussain, Warda Khalif,
Aryan Khan, Samha Lund, Abraham Matthews, Prabhdeep Nijjar,
Nirujan Rajakumar, Shreya Shrestha and Shabnam Uria.
We were also very impressed with our year 13 students, who received
excellent A level results including 4 students gaining grade A* and
10 with grade As. Students who particularly impressed were Teodor
Jevtic and Maeve D’Souza who both achieved A*s in both Maths
and Further Maths A Levels, Shubhdeep Sethi, who gained an A* in
Maths and A in Further Maths, and Sukhpreet Gill who got an A* in
Maths. In addition to these students, Haroon Lukka also gained an
A* in A Level Maths, despite only being in year 11.
Congratulations to all our students who worked so hard and achieved
wonderful well deserved results.
Success in the UKMT Mathematics challenges has also become a
Cranford tradition. In November 2019, year 12 Mathematicians,
along with a number of year 11 and 13 students took the Senior Maths
Challenge. After the excellent GCSE results in the summer, we were
hopeful that certificates would be won, and they did not disappoint
with 5 year 12 students achieving Bronze Certificates. Our highest
scoring student was year 13’s Ibrahim Abokar who also gained a
Bronze certificate and scored best in school. Congratulations to
Ibrahim and our year 12 certificate winners, Shreya Shrestha (best in
year 12), Warda Hashi, Brahmnoor Brar, Shaan Abbasi and Mashal
Nejrabi. An honourable mention goes to Ahmed Ali, who scored the
highest score in year 11 and narrowly missed out on a certificate.
In February 2020 students in years 9,10 and 11 had their chance to
shine in the Intermediate Maths Challenge and they were certainly
determined not to be outdone. Three year 11 students, Ajeet Bhatti,
Rohan Kapoor and Shargeel Hussain gained Gold certificates as well
as places in the follow up challenge, known as the Pink Kangaroo.
Ajeet scored the highest score in the school. We also won 22 Silver
certificates and a massive 36 Bronze certificates, with Silver
certificate winners Shreyas Shikhare and Rajveer Bisla scoring the
highest scores in year 10 and 9 respectively. Amazingly we also had
a Silver certificate from Aamina Ashfaq, and Bronze certificates
from Miya Dhaliwal and Muqadas Saleem, who as year 8 students
all entered the competition a year early.
Congratulations to all certificate winners and all who participated.
Students from years 7 and 8 will have to wait till next year as their
competition was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Sarah Brackley (Head of the Maths Department)
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