Maths_HGS

Some of our S2 classes were competing against each other today in The Enterprise Challenge delivered by The Talent Foundry. Special mention to Brandon, Lucas, Hayley, Mia and Beth for their awesome stage construction and to Kaleb for his outstanding Dragons Den style pitch.

Mrs Browns S1 were using their understanding of coordinates to play Coordinate Battleships today. #classic

Well done to Matthew Allwood-Spiers, Yasmine Djebbaili, Ella McGlynn & Maja Bentkowska for finishing 4th in the SLC Enterprising Maths Challenge event. Also a big thanks to S6 pupil Amy Crossan for helping mark at the event too.

Mr Scott’s S1 class spent some time today collaborating on completing their first Tarsia puzzle of the year. Good job S1!

Mrs Browns S2 class were working together to match lengths given in different units. Great job everyone

Last week pupils from Quarter PS, Woodside PS, Chatelherault PS, Beckford PS and St John’s PS attended the final of our P7 Maths Challenge. Every team did their school proud. Congratulations to Chatelherault PS who pipped the rest of the schools to take home the trophy this year

Good luck to all our pupils sitting their Maths exams this week. 🤞for decent papers.

📢Applications are now OPEN for our Engineering the Future for Girls outreach programme, which is running at the University of Strathclyde in May 2025. An amazing opportunity for S3 girls to find out more about Engineering study and careers. Apply now: bit.ly/2RtXPUG

A massive well done to the S2 pupils who received a certificate for following our “Steps to Success”. Emails were sent to parents yesterday.👏👏👏

Good luck to all our pupils who kick off their prelims tomorrow. 🤞

Every month the Maths Dept will be sending home certificates to parents/guardians of our pupils who consistently show our “Steps to Success in Mathematics”. First up, for October, is our fantastic new S1 pupils.

Maths supported study is now up and running in preparation for the prelim exams in December. Pupils can ask their Maths teacher for details.

Well done to Matthew Allwood-Spiers, Yasmine Djebbaili, Ross Turner & Emilia Black for finishing 6th in the SLC Enterprising Maths Challenge today. Pupils participated in 5 rounds of competition all day and performed to a really high standard. Good job👏👏

Every day, we share two interesting mathematical problems for use in your classroom, designed to promote mathematical reasoning and deep-thinking skills. Here's today's first problem. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Download this problem, with full teacher notes and worked solutions, along with dozens of other intriguing tasks for free on the Complete Mathematics website: completemaths.com/more/teaching-… #CM_POTD

The Maths Department run the Darts club every Tuesday lunchtime in A112 and Chess club every Thursday lunchtime in A110. All year groups welcome ♟️🎯

Parents and guardians of S1-S3 pupils, please look out for an email about how you can monitor your child’s progress in Maths. We are delighted to team up with Complete Maths this year.

Some great work today on Negative Numbers in the Maths Dept.

Now we are all recharged! On behalf of the staff and pupils, we extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to @mrsmccool_ for organising our trip to @eurospacecenter. Her hard work and dedication made this incredible experience possible. We hope all the pupils had an amazing time 👏

🏆A massive well done to all our primary school pupils who reached our 2024 Maths Challenge final. The top 3 schools were: 1st: Woodside PS 2nd: Beckford PS 3rd: St John’s PS @woodsidepschool @StJohnsPriHam @QuarterPS_SLC @beckfordps_slc