Maths Week 2011
October 15th -23rd
Maths Week 2011 proved to be a great success in St Brigids. This year classes from Second to Sixth took part in the Manga High Maths Challenge - a Maths activity and game based programme for primary and secondary schools throughout Ireand. The challenge for each boy was to gain as many points for himself in order to attain as many Gold,Silver and Bronze medals for himself initially and for his school.Maths activities were both entertaining and challenging and catered impressively for individual difference.
After a hectic weeks activity I received the followinge-mail :
" Dear Mr Leahy,
I am writing to congratulate the students at St. Brigid's BNS, Foxrock on their fantastic performance in the Mangahigh Maths Week Ireland Challenge 2011.Your school earned a total of 3,003 finishing 5th on the Maths Week Ireland Leaderboard.There were over 500 schools that registered for the competition this year, which puts your students' impressive achievement into context.
The following students performed particulary well and in recognition of their success I have attached certificates that I hope you will be able to present to them :
Eric Wang, Eanmonn Flannery, Ronan Cullen, Cormac McCabe, Conor Austin.
Yours sincerely,
Marcus du Sautoy
Professor of Mathematics
University of Oxford."
Our photograph shows the five boys having received their Certificates at a recent assembly in the school.
