School competitions
Royal Russell Maths n Four Year 5 students headed to Royal Russell School for their annual Maths Competition. The students spent the afternoon completing a whole range of maths challenges, competing against 19 other schools. The challenges included making shapes from pentominoes, completing tangram puzzles, proving Pythagoras’ theorem using triangles and squares, as well as solving word problems and logic puzzles. The boys were thrilled when it was announced they had won first prize in the competition. They were each awarded a medal and a team trophy was brought back to DC. Lego Robotics n The Blockeroids team was proud to take part in the First Lego League competition 2018- 2019, the biggest Lego Robotic competition globally, organised by the IET in the UK. After months of relentless effort in preparation, the team attended the regional tournament. The event was really interesting, challenging and educational. Our robot took part in 3 matches against 7 other teams. Each match lasts 2.5 minutes, and the robot needs to solve as many missions as possible, automatically. Our robot did progressively better as the tournament went on, but it was equally enjoyable learning from other teams’ robots. Our team also did a presentation about solutions for long-duration space travel, which was well received by the judges. Computing Enrichment Day n Boys from Year 4 represented the Junior School at the second annual Computing Enrichment Day in March. In the morning, the boys created animated GIFs, programmed BBC microbits to create an electronic rock, paper, scissors game and used Bloxels to design their own computer game. After lunch they worked together to debug Scratch programs in a friendly competition that was won by a crack team from JAPS. It was a super day and all the boys were a credit to our school in the way they participated throughout the entire day. General Knowledge Quiz n Eight Junior School Boys attended the Annual General Knowledge quiz, in the south- east London heats held in Bishop Challoner’s School. There were two teams from the Junior School comprising two boys from each year group The competition was fierce with questions on science, history, literature, geography and sport. Team A and B led the field for much of the 40 question quiz, but being pipped at the post Bronte School in the last five questions - our teams came a very respectable second and third in the quiz.
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