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Mathematics
The year began, as ever, with the House Mathematics
Competition, which was held on three consecutive
Thursday lunchtimes. This year Forder swept the board
clean, winning all three of their matches, with only Stuart
putting up a bit of a fight (no bias there)! Well done to
everyone who took part, especially to the Forder team of
Paul Nicholas (U6), Chris Chen (L6), Vishal Patel (Y11)
and Sarah Bassey (Y9), who won.
Here is the table of results:
W L F A
Forder 3 0 67 24
Userwood 2 1 49 42
Stuart 1 2 30 47
Hecker 0 3 19 52
In September four members of Year 9 started attending
a series of Mathematics Masterclasses. Jermaine
Thompson writes:
On the 15th of September 2001, at Bromley High
School, Sara Bassey, Manvir Grewal, Sharla Singh
and myself, Jermaine Thompson attended the first of 8
Junior Maths Masterclasses. The classes started at
9.20am, with pupils from other schools, such as St.
Olaves, Ravensbourne, Alleyn’s, Bromley High and
Crofton, and they ended at 12 midday. In each lesson
we did sequences, 3-D nets symmetry, linkages,
mazes and network connections, codes, probability
(dice work) and finally graphic calculator work, which
proved to be very popular. All the St. Dunstan’s
College Mathematics teachers appeared at some
stage and the lessons were very enjoyable and fun,
even though it was a lot of hard work.
On Tuesday 6th November, the top two sets of the
Upper and Lower Sixth all piled into the cold refectory to
sit the annual Senior Mathematical Challenge, which
lasted for 90 minutes. The paper this year was apparently
easier than last years, and many of the students
gained awards. Surprisingly, the Lower Sixth did better
than the Upper Sixth.
Here are the results:
Gold: Paul Nicholas
Silver: Christopher Chen; Thomas Dare; Omar Moonan;
Stephen Etheridge and Gareth Rees
Bronze: Billy Owens; Sarah Bodenham; Jenny Greenshields;
Graham Condon and Jigna Patel
Congratulations to everyone who gained an award and
also to all the few who just missed out on getting one.
A special mention must go to Paul Nicholas, who
gained the highest mark in the school, 105, nearly making
the top 100 nationally. He progressed to the first
round of the British Mathematical Olympiad.
Hans Woyda
The Hans Woyda Maths team, consisting of Paul
Nicholas (U6), Sarah Bodenham (L6), Jamie Giles /
Vishal Patel (Y11) and Sharla Singh / Sara Bassey (Y9),
played matches during the first term.
In the first round they played against St. Joesph’s
College, narrowly losing by five points – the score was
30-35. In the second round they played against Alleyn’s,
and the score was 31-41 to Alleyn’s. In their third match,
against Trinity, in which, after a slow start the team fin -
ished by winning the game, with accurate answers – the
score being 42-35. Well done to all involved with a bit
more confidence we could have progressed to the next
stage.
On Thursday 7th February, the annual Intermediate
Mathematical Challenge took place, as ever, in the refectory.
The paper itself was 60 minutes long and many
members of years 9-11 attempted to answer the questions.
Over 2600 schools entered their students and in
our school the following 73 received certificates:
Year 11:
Gold: Richard Hall; Irene Athanas; Thy Hoang; Jamie Giles
and
Alex Bull
Silver: Michael Leal; Tom Neenan; Ben Miller; Natasha
Nanuck;
Can Urmen; Sarah Keltie and Scott McMillan
Bronze: Onome Igharoro; Vishal Patel; Robert Whitworth;
Charlie Fairless; Nicole Efthymiou; Dat-Fay Ip; Nicholas Askey;
Jon Yirrell; Hazen Ahmet; Gaby Heard; Erone Knight-Simpson;
Bhavin Patel; Stephen Hugkulstone; Ekta Patel and Mark
Waite
Year 10:
Gold: Adam Gray; Michael Illsley; Robert Condon; Natasha
Marshall; Callum Sida-Murray and Beth Tanner
Silver: Sarah Barnett; Ela Ceyhan; Robert Jackson; Matt
Kitchingman; Luke Hunter; Kelvin Pathmanathan; Sarah De
Zoysa;
Haydn Thompson; Thuji Muthkumarsivam and Venita
Akpofure
Bronze: Giles Wilmore; Ajit Kanagaratnam; James Murray;
Jack Retallack; Kaja Zuvac-Graves; Malcolm Fernandes; Kevin
Ilo; Shereena Nain; Victoria Keppe; Laura Crosbie; Carl Dennis
and
Nick Wilkie
Year 9:
Gold: Thomas Kemp and Jermaine Thompson
Silver: Sharla Singh; James Reed; Adai Monerville; Chantal
Persaud; Peter Whittaker; Manvir Grewal and Shameel Nanuck
Bronze: Lucy Hinton; Alex Taylor; James Spencer; Anna-Maria
Amato; George Davies; Anna Harborow; Holly Grima; Ben
Jacobs and
Siobhan Kelly
Congratulations to everyone and in particular to Adam
Gray, who received the best in school certificate.
Six Year 9 pupils can be especially pleased with themselves
as they gained a enough points to automatically
enter the European Kangaroo, an international competition,
that takes place on the Thursday of the last week of
term. They are: Thomas Kemp; Jermaine Thompson;
Sharla Singh; James Reed; Adai Monerville and Chantal
Persaud. Unfortunately on the day of the event three of
them were absent. Of those that did take part Thomas
Kemp and Jermaine Thompson won Certificates of
Participation and Sharla Singh a Certificate of Distinction
– the first pupil at SDC to achieve this.