Over a fortnight in November, all of the junior school pupils took part in the Bebras computational thinking challenge. Form One pupils took part in the Kits age category, Upper One and Lower Two pupils in the Castors age category and Upper Two entered the Juniors age category. Upper Two is the first opportunity for pupils to take on the challenge independently as in the lower years, it is a team challenge where communication between team members is critical to success.
We were particularly impressed to receive the results and find that 46 of our pupils were ranked within the top 10% of the UK’s participants, which is an extremely impressive achievement. These pupils will receive a gold award certificate to recognise this.
In each of the age categories, there is also a Best in School award. This was won by two teams in Kits: Edward and Jack, and Serena and Bel. Samir, Barnaby and Tate won the award for the Castors age group with an impressive full marks! In the Juniors category, both William and Mabel won this award; receiving full marks. Even more impressively, William has received the Best in School award in three of his four years in the junior school and has scored full marks in at least two of those challenges!
Well done to all the pupils who took part.
