Minh Trang Nguyen pictured with her Olympiad award – an exceptional achievement

Currently at Bosworth Independent College 174 of our 192 A Level students choose to study Maths at A Level, with many of these students also opting for A Level Further Maths. Last year, our students achieved a 100% pass rate at A Level in these subjects, with 73% of students gaining an A grade and a further 18% a B grade.

Therefore, it is fair to say Maths is a core subject at Bosworth, and because of the number of students we have studying this subject at A Level we are able to offer 16 different units out of a possible 18 available.

To incorporate this number of units we actually have 51 different A Level groups with an average of 8 students in each group. Which obviously means timetabling this subject in itself proves a mathematical challenge! However, having 18 maths teachers on hand helps.

The students can choose statistics, mechanics or decision maths to go alongside the compulsory pure maths units and with students from 22 different nationalities opting for maths each Bosworth student has a very unique learning experience.

Furthermore, this year we entered a number of students into the Maths Challenge competition which is set for AS Level students. Of those who participated; eight students achieved gold, thirteen silver and four bronze medals.

Three of our gold medal winners qualified to enter the first round of the Maths Olympiad and one of these students, Minh Trang Nguyen, won a place in round 2 of the Olympiad from which the National team is chosen. This is an exceptional achievement and we are eagerly awaiting her results.

Tags: olympiad, maths, a level

Over the past few months THIRTEEN 'AS' Physics Students have voluntarily given their time to study for the Olympiad. They spent a number of lunchtimes working with Dr. Sweetland who helped them prepare for this really tough event --- open to all Schools and Colleges in the UK ---- and who organised the entries on behalf of the College. (Big 'Thank You!')

The Exam was taken some weeks ago and the results for our students are as follows:

Foo, Tien Vun Cavan
Tang, Tsz Ho (Kevin)
Aghoghovbia, Vome
Sze, Chun Yian

ALL RECEIVE PARTICIPATION CERTIFICATES


Cheung, Hoi Man (Ariel)
Chang, Jun
Tran, Ngoc Lan
Nguyen Viet Tien
Tran, Yen Ngoc

ALL RECEIVE BRONZE AWARDS (40% -- 60%)


Lai, Ka Chun

RECEIVES A SILVER AWARD (62%)



Thai, Son Dang

RECEIVES A GOLD AWARD (78%)


WELL DONE TO ALL PARTICIPANTS. REMEMBER TO PUT YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS EVENT ON YOUR U.C.A.S. FORM NEXT YEAR!

Tags: physics, olympiad