Maths: The Year so Far
Abbey Gate College Mathematics Department – 2008/9 the year so far:
September:
Alexander Gray wins the Key Stage 4 Famous Mathematicians Poster Competition with an excellent, visually eye-catching entry on the great Leonhard Euler.
Anna Williams wins the Key Stage 3 Mathematics Department Logo Competition. Her logo neatly picked up the college colours with some well-known mathematical symbols, and is now widely used by the department.
November:
The Senior Maths Challenge brought two Gold awards for Alex Mathews and Mike Evans, a Silver award for William Hockedy and two Bronze awards for Katie Bates and Jake Feather.
December:
The Abbey Gate College team of Annabelle Edge, Mike Evans, William Hockedy and Alex Mathews finish an extremely creditable fourth place in the Senior Team Maths Challenge at Christleton College.
January:
Very encouraging Year 11 module results from the November exams.
Year 6 pupils enjoy creating 3D shapes from spaghetti and jelly babies and exploring their properties and Euler’s formula as part of their taster day.
Year 11 pupils discover better ways of finding lines of best fit than “ruler wiggling”, use mathematics to model projectiles including bananas, find out how mathematics can be used to plan postal routes and explore the world of imaginary numbers on their taster day.
Still to come later this year:
February:
Year 10 and 11 participate in the Intermediate Maths Challenge.
Years 11 – 13 attend the Maths Inspiration lectures at the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre on How to Cheat at Mind-reading, the Maths of the Rock Guitar and Maths Inside the Computer.
March:
Two notable days in the mathematics calendar – watch out for activities in class:
4th: World Maths day
14th: World Pi day
April:
Years 7 & 8 – Junior Maths Challenge
May:
A team of Year 8 & 9 pupils will compete in the Junior Team Maths Challenge.
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More Musical Success
More Musical Success - Peter Edge wins at the Eisteddfod
Year 11 student Peter Edge won the 15-20 yr old vocal class at the International Eisteddfod at Llangollen coming away with a prize of £200. He competed against singers from all over the world, some of which are already students at music Colleges.
U15 cricket - a first class victory!
On Wednesday 16th June the Year 10 cricket team (plus Oliver Handley from Year 7), entertained Bishop Blue Coat School. In his maiden game as captain Simon Povey won the toss and decided to field first.
The 8 bowlers used proceeded to bowl out the opposition for 40 runs. A prolonged spell of accurate bowling brought its rewards for Rory Jones, who took 3 wickets and Harry Fairclough, who took 4 wickets (including 3 wickets in 4 balls).
Sixth Form Sporting Opportunities
Sixth Form Sporting Opportunities
Rugby- For the first time in over 15 years the College was able to put out a 1st XV team in an U19 tournament played at Sandbach rugby club this February.
Chester Schools Football
Abbey Gate College hosts Chester Schoolboys Footballers Presentation Evening with the Duke of Westminster
Chester Schools Football Association have been running official inter school competition for over 100 years. His Grace the Duke of Westminster has been the President of the CSFA since the 1970s. Without hesitation he donated money and on Saturday 17th April he reaffirmed his Presidency by attending a presentation evening hosted by Headmistress Lynne Horner at the fabulous venue of Abbey Gate College.
Small Business Master Class
Small Business Master Class
Years 11 and 12 attended a Small Business Master Class at the College on Wednesday 3rd March 2010. The class gave the students a valuable insight into the world of business, communications and team work by helping them to develop an understanding of the opportunities open to small business owners The interactive day proved to be very informative and rewarding and in addition most enjoyable.
