As the dry season approaches its’ zenith it traditionally heralds the beginning of the competition season in Mathematics.
With all mathematics competitions cancelled last year we were all delighted to learn that this year the children were able to compete in a virtual version of the FOBISIA Primary Maths Competition, hosted by BIS Manila. International schools across Asia, from as far and wide as Korea to Indonesia and India to China entered a competition that we have won for the past two years. For the first three days, all of the children in the Junior Campus were given an opportunity to join in the competition, at school or home, with their points contributing to the school total. BIS children quickly populated the leader board and the school led going into the final day. As the final minutes to the deadline evaporated, BIS had a healthy lead over all of our 37 rival schools, but in the closing minutes we were narrowly caught and finished second.
The competition then became individual with the top twenty highest scoring Year 6 children from across Asia invited to compete against each other on Friday. BIS had an incredible 30% of the finalists who sat two gruelling one hour tests. We would like to congratulate the following Year 6 children who contested the final: Eric Zhou, Sophie Nguyen, Katie Nguyen, John Yang, Daniel Kong and Harry Tran. We would also like to give a special mention to Eric Zhou who finished an excellent second in the individual competition!
Attention will now turn towards our next competition, the UKMT Junior Mathematical Challenge, which is an individual competition for children up to and including Year 8. Trials will begin shortly in readiness for the competition itself which will be held over four days from April 27th to April 30th.
Andy James, John Handscombe, Maths Leaders
The weekly update from Dee Grimshaw, Headteacher of the Junior Campus, highlighting some of the events that have taken place this week.
