St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Bright and early on Saturday morning, primary and secondary students gathered in DCU to compete in the Mathletes Leinster finals. Among all the students were nine St Peter’s boys from 5th and 6th class, who had qualified due to their hard work and dedication. Only 500 students in the country from 5th class to 3rd year qualified so the St Peter’s team had a lot to proud of. Special mention to the parents, grandparents, brothers and sister who came along to cheer them on!

The day began with a team event designed by The Think Academy. The challenge was based on CSI techniques and required the groups to use maths to crack the case. The team that won the primary challenge included Eduard from 6th class. They won a partial scholarship each to a Think Academy summer camp. The students really enjoyed this part of the day and were really enthusiastic about the challenge.

The next part of the day was a time trial using Khan Academy. The students logged into specially created accounts and had to complete as many of the recommended topics as possible within 30 minutes. This challenge was followed by the final challenge of the day – a written test of 5 questions, which were based on the Weekly Challenge feature of Mathletes.

After the challenges were complete, the students rejoined their families until the presentation. Unfortunately, there were some technical difficulties and we will have to wait until Monday to hear the news about the provincial winners and the qualifiers for the national event, but there was some really exciting news when they announced the county winners for the Student Challenge – St Peter’s won both primary awards! Leon from 5th class and Eduard from 6th class won the prizes for best in County Wicklow! There was a great cheer from the Peter’s section of the audience when both names were announced.

The nine boys that attended on the day were fantastic representatives for the school – other teachers on the day commented on how friendly and helpful they were to other students and they were organised and listened carefully to all instructions. We’re really proud of them! Well done to Adam, Alan, AaronJ, Leon, Sam, Eduard, Lester, LukeR and Patryk!

Our nine Mathletes!

Thanks to all the families, who attended on the day – it was lovely to see such support and pride in our students – we also really appreciate the early start many of you had! Thanks to Alan, Aaron’s dad, for some of the photos and for all the travel advice!

Finally, thanks very much to Mathletes, the Think Academy, SOSventures and DCU for all the organisation on the day – Kelly from SOSventures was a great help in the lead up to the event.