BACUP
AND RAWTENSTALL GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Glen Road, Waterfoot, Rossendale, Lancs, BB4 7BJ
Tel: 01706 234500
Fax: 01706 234505
E-mail: gls@brgs.org.uk
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Activities
that have taken place under
BRGS Maths & Computing Specialist Schools Status
STEM Activities November 2010
Year 8
students benefitted from a range of STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Maths) focused
activities. As a specialist Maths and Computing
College there has been an increased emphasis and
requirement on STEM and we used this opportunity
to provide Year 8 students with a range of hands-on
activities....view more |
Queen
Elizabeth’s Grammar School Visit 2010
Members
of the BRGS mathematics and computing
pupil committee boarded the school mini-bus for
a visit to Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School
(QEGS), another mathematics and computing specialist
college....view
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Year
8 Anglesey Residential 2009
The annual
Maths residential to Anglesey is designed
to allow the pupils to develop their wider
mathematical
abilities
in a range of contexts outside the classroom....view
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Year
10 Maths Workshop 2009
In an innovative
and unusual approach to maths, the Royal Air Force
and the Kingfisher Centre at Future
Park in Bacup recently played host to year
10 students from across the Valley....view more |
Operation
Montserrat 2009
The maths
department were running a project in which Year
9 pupils
formed an Emergency Response Team reacting
to the simulation of a natural disaster
in which they had to apply the knowledge
they have gained in lessons to a real context....view
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Adult
Learning Classes 2009
After the success
of 2008's free classes, BRGS
announce another series of free classes. Thanks to
community funding, this programme of classes will
also be free to celebrate the Maths and Computing
specialism and the Training School programme at BRGS.
For further information ....view
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Year
10 Lionheart Challenge 2009
The entire year group took
part in the first round of a national competition to find
the most successful Year
10 enterprise team at BRGS. In
2008 the team won their round of the NW Regional
Final and took part in the National Final held in Liverpool...view
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Community
Maths and Computing Conference
BRGS funded
a two-day conference which was hosted at Fearns
High School. On the first
day Lancashire Education Business
Partnership presented an industrial masterclass
in conjunction with Young Enterprise North-West and
Manchester Airport.
On the second day, students benefited from lectures from staff from Salford University
and Manchester Metropolitan University with the event culminating with a workshop
session called ‘Fun with Maths’...view more |
STEP
Into The Future
The Kingfisher Centre
at Futures Park in Bacup recently played host to
over fifty student delegates from all over Lancashire
focussing on STEP maths – the
maths needed for entry to universities such as Cambridge
or Warwick....view more |
Your
Future in Maths and Computing
In January we hosted a ‘Your
Future in Maths and computing’ event in collaboration
with Manchester Metropolitan University for 40 Year
11
students who are hoping to continue into 6th form
to study Maths or computing. Students were involved
in computer programming, workshops about Mobile computing,
fun with mathematics and other specialist talks from
MMU lecturers. We hope to extend this link by attending
MMU next year with Y9 girls as part of the drive
to promote computing for girls. |
KS3
Dragon’s Den Competition
8 small businesses will be launching over the forthcoming
weeks. Business ideas that made it past the Dragons
include McSES, the fruit Smoothie Company and Digital
Tutor, an online support programme for Year 7 students.
All the students involved were treated to a half
day series of business seminars to learn about effective
marketing, accounting, web design, top tips for running
a business and how to write press releases. Congratulations
to all the students involved and good luck with your
businesses! More sessions to develop your websites
and accounting skills will be advertised soon. |
Year
10 Lionheart Challenge 2008
Normal
lessons were suspended as the entire year group
was given the opportunity to take part in the first
round of a national competition to find the most
successful enterprise team in Year 10 at BRGS....view
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Primary
Schools Maths Challenge
Fourteen teams took part
in the 10th annual BRGS Primary Maths Challenge organised
by Susan Kennedy,
maths teacher and Head of Year 7.
The theme this
year was “A Journey into Space” and
pupils attempted ten challenges and puzzles relating
to the planets. As always, there were plenty of practical
activities culminating with a mathematical building
project to construct a rocket. The pupils, without
realising it, were working at a high mathematical
level and solving complex puzzles.
The standard was
extremely high, with only three points separating
the top four teams and the ultimate winner was Crawshawbooth
Primary School. |
Additional
Mathematics
Twenty five Year
11 students spent an unusual weekend sleeping in
school and then studying maths
during the day. The students had been studying a
new course called Additional Mathematics which
offers university entrance points and provides candidates
with an introduction to the maths studied at AS and
A level.
Explaining the unusual weekend Paul Reeves, Head
of Mathematics, said: “Our pupils have stayed
behind school for an hour each week to study for
this qualification. It should take about 60 hours
to teach, yet we’ve crammed it into 27 – the
pupils have worked
exceptionally hard. We wanted to review what we’d
taught as well as having some
fun.”
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Year
8 Anglesey Residential
Twelve BRGS teachers heaved a collective
sigh of relief as they were rescued from a sinking
dinghy
in the Menai Straits. However, the rescue
wasn’t made by the Coastguard but by 120 Year
8 pupils who had paddled out on twelve self made
rafts!
The rescue was the culmination of a series
of problem solving activities the pupils completed
as part of
a three-day maths based residential on the island
of Anglesey...
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Adult
Learning Classes 2008
A series of free
classes to celebrate BRGS being designated as a Maths
and
Computing
College and a Training School by the Specialist Schools
Trust.
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