Pupils achieve 3 Golds, 7 Silvers and 18 Bronzes in Maths Challenge

Pupils from St. Cuthbert’s RC High School celebrating with their certificates from the UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge

Pupils at St. Cuthbert’s RC High School achieved 3 Golds, 7 Silvers and 18 Bronzes in this year’s UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge.

Over 200,000 pupils from across the UK took part in the annual challenge in February.

It is a great achievement to be recognised with an award given that less than half of the entrants receive a certificate.

Overall, 6% of all the participants across the country received a gold certificate. The next 13% were awarded a Silver and the next 21% Bronze.

The success these pupils achieved shows the excellent understanding of mathematics they possess, which is often needed to study the subject beyond GCSE.

The results, which arrived earlier this month, also revealed that one pupil secured a place in the follow on round.

Ben Hartnell-Booth, currently in Year 10, achieved this by scoring highly enough to be rankled in the top 1% nationally.

He completed the additional round on Thursday 20 March and if he scores highly enough will be awarded a place at a summer school. The results should be released in the two weeks time.