Junior Faculty pupils who not too long ago took half within the Bebras Computing Problem are celebrating their success!
Designed to introduce pupils to computational pondering and promote downside fixing expertise, the Bebras Problem is an annual problem taken on by faculties the world over, repeatedly attracting greater than 3 million entries from 80 completely different international locations.
Deputy Head Tutorial, Katy Morris-Yousaf, could be very pleased with everybody who took half.
She stated: “This was the primary time that lots of our youthful pupils have ever completed something like this so I used to be delighted that greater than half of our J2 and J3 kids achieved a distinction or advantage. That signifies that they got here inside the high 50% of entries worldwide.
“We additionally gave out quite a few Gold Award certificates for kids who got here within the high 10% of all entries. Extremely, certainly one of our J2 kids and two of our J3 kids achieved 100% within the problem, which could be very uncommon certainly.”
J4 pupils carried out simply as effectively with two pupils reaching full marks and sharing the “Greatest in Faculty” title, significantly spectacular because the J4 courses competed in the identical class as Removes pupils.
Mrs Morris-Yousaf congratulated all of them: “The Bebras Problem is an effective way to encourage logical pondering and problem-solving. Participating this 12 months has given everybody a chance to showcase their potential and develop their confidence in Computing.
The 5 pupils who achieved full marks are:
Castors Problem (age 8 – 10)
- Dylan Unalkat (J2)
- Aarna Uduchana (J3)
- James Burton (J3) – not pictured
Junior Problem (age 10 – 12)
- Caleb Eilbeck (J4)
- Oliver Davies (J4)