Scotch College

Marvellous Mathematics from the Junior School

The Junior School has enjoyed immense success with its mathematics programme this year. Students from Years Four, Five and Six have achieved outstanding results which fully indicate the strength and breadth of the Junior School maths curriculum.

The Junior School is pleased to recognise the outstanding achievements of the students from Years Four, Five and Six, whilst individually acknowledging the following students:

Mathematics Talent Quest

State Awards: Luke Dawson (Maths for a Maths Garden) and Kane Walker (The Mathematics of building and piloting a Hovercraft).

Prizes: Jack Naughton (An Eggcellent study), Thomas Matthews (What does the water bill mean!), Nicholas Watson (Maths is getting Hot) and Rama Lokon (Operation Pyramid-A Bob the Beetle Adventure).

As a result of this fine effort Scotch College Junior School received an Honourable Mention Award for their winning entries in this year's competition.

Pictured: Maths Talent Quest 2002 prize winners, L to R: Nicholas Watson, Rama Lokon, Luke Dawson, Jack Naughton and Thomas Matthews.

Mathematics Challenge

High Distinctions: Matthew Pierri, Nicholas Cox, Derek Yu, Jack Acton, Jonathan Chan and Adrian Li.

Distinctions: Luke Dawson, Don Khoo, Callum Maxwell, Benjamin Chan, Rama Lokon, Nicholas Watson and Jack Naughton.

Credits: 9 credits.

Westpac Mathematics Competition for Year 7 students

Prize: Luke Dawson.

High Distinctions: Nicholas Cox and Nathan Su.

Distinctions: Ben Chan, Don Khoo, Edward Hamer, Max Lippiatt, Will Lester, Declan Smith, Francis Chan.

Credit: Jack Naughton.

University of New South Wales Mathematics Competition for Year Six

High Distinctions: Luke Dawson, Callum Maxwell, Lincoln McPhee, Matthew Pierri, David Wollermann.

Distinctions: Ben Chan, Hamish Murphy, Edward Hamer, Timothy Mursell, Yanni Arsenakis, Francis Chan, Mark Chan, Nicholas Cox, Tom Johnson, Nicholas Johnson, Joshua King, Nathan Su, William Lester, Max Lippiatt, Declan Smith, Simon Black, Jack Naughton, Anthony Palazzo, Alexander Pulitano, Jai Sharma, Matthew Sterk.

Credits: William Bernard, James Erskine,

Jad Hamzi, Oliver Hay, Ho Kei Kam, Hughie Marshall, Nicholas Inge, Tom Lee, Thomas Matthews, Carl Moh, Ben Molyneux, Alister Stockley, Don Khoo, Nikhil Thyagarajan, Steven Kyrou,

Andre Larsson, Alistair Pullen, Albert Suttor, Jonathan Wallace-Smith, Tom Wilson.

University of New South Wales Mathematics Competition for Year Four

High Distinctions: Thomas Whitaker, Edward Cliff, James Dawson-Smith, Dougal Hurley, Daniel Teh.

Distinctions: Stuart Esnouf, Charles Goodacre, Oscar Relf, Michael White, Peter Green, Marcus Littlewood, Paul Mitchell, David Monkhouse, Oliver Tarrant, Mitchell Wong, Jack Balson, Jeremy Brown, Michael Docker, Christopher Nagel, Jack Palazzo, Damien Qi, Francis Ravida, James Snell, Richard Tuckwell, Matthew Whitaker, Jason Young, Harry Bordonaro, Sidney Jones, Michael Kotaridis, Hayden Lim-Joon, Herman Rockefeller, Lachlan Stockley, Christopher Yap.

Credits: William Brack, Cameron Burrill, Craig Foster, Cody Hickman, Alex King, Christopher Lamb, Raphael Soon, Rafe Wilson, Alexander Blain, Mathew Carlson, Jackson Finlay, Timothy Jonson, Michael Kay, Lachlan Meyer, Samuel Murphy, Neil Pachauri, Fergus Tremaine, Lawrence Yap.

Maths Olympiads for Primary Schools

The SCJS team A came in the top 10 % of the 725 teams entered from schools around Australia and New Zealand. 19,798 students participated in this competition. SCJS had 11 boys represented in the top 10% of participating students, along with another 6 in the top 30%.

Congratulations to all boys who represented the school with such distinction, and we look forward to encouraging results in 2003.

Pictured: Year 5 & 6 Distinction and High Distinction Award Winners from the Westpac Mathematics competition

 

Dean Gregory (Junior School Mathematics Coordinator) and
Marcia Bacon (Director of Educational Resources).