OTICEBOARD FIRST PRIZE POEM FOR OUNDLE


A poem by 15-year-old Oundle School pupil Alanna Gilmartin has won fi rst prize in the English Secondary School section of a poetry competition run by The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Fifty pupils studying German at Oundle took part in the Dinggedicht Poetry Competition, run by DAAD to coincide with an exhibition at The British Museum, ‘Germany – Memories of a Nation’. The competitors were required to write a poem about one of the objects in the exhibition and could approach the task from any angle. Alanna wrote a poem entitled ‘Never Alone’ based on Caspar David Friedrich’s painting ‘Der Mittag’ (pictured, above left). “I chose the painting because it was beautifully painted and very interesting,” said Alanna. “When I went to the British Museum for the awards ceremony I was given a very warm welcome. I was truly honoured to take part in the event, and overjoyed that it was held at such an amazing place.”


ELOQUENT ISABEL WINS OUT


Wellington School year 11 pupil Isabel Elliott has won the Knott Memorial Silver Plate for best speaker in the English Speaking Union’s (ESU) public speaking competition. Isabel delivered a speech on the subject of ‘Religion alone as a dividing force is the sole reason for many confl icts’. As a result, she was voted the best individual speaker from a highly competitive fi eld and convinced all present of her committed point of view. Isabel is a frequent performer at Wellington,


having starred in drama and musical productions and is currently learning Greek in addition to her GCSE subjects. Isabel was assisted by Orla Egan and Matthew Perry as questioner and chairman. The Public Speaking Competition for Schools


was started in 1960 by the Brighton and Hove branch of the ESU and is now a highly respected national competition which provides an opportunity for young people to develop the skills of effective spoken English.


BIRMINGHAM BOYS DO THE MATHS The King Edward’s


School team of Harrison Green and Clement Chan in Year 13 and Jeremy Ho and Vidy Reddy in Year 12 achieved a perfect score of 176 points to win the competition jointly with two other teams from Harrow School and Hampton School, who also got perfect scores. Tim Cross,


Four boys from King Edward’s School, Birmingham were joint winners in the national fi nal of the Senior Team Maths Challenge. Over 1,000 school teams took part in the challenge competition and 80 went through to the National Finals, which were held at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London on Tuesday 3 February.


maths teacher and coach of the team, said: “To reach the national fi nals of this competition is a fantastic accomplishment. To go on and win the competition by answering every question correctly is incredible and I am very proud indeed of these four boys.” John Claughton, chief master of


King Edward’s School, said: “All four of these boys are exceptional mathematicians and they also love competing as a team. The school has had great success in these big national competitions at junior and senior level in recent years, but this is our fi rst ever victory. “We have a great mathematical


tradition here and our most famous mathematician is Richard Borcherds, who won the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize. These boys are the heirs to that tradition and Harrison and Clement have recently received offers to study maths at Oxford and Cambridge respectively. This success shows the great talent and potential there is in the boys of this school and this city.” The Senior Team Maths Challenge


is a national competition jointly organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust and the Further Maths Support Programme.


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