Not long to go now! You no doubt have heard from your son, and probably in the news as well, about World Maths Day. It is an international competition, where players register for a unique identity and then play online against people from anywhere in the world. You have a minute to answer as many calculation questions as possible. Here is one that AGP did earlier this morning:

You can see the number of seconds to go on the right, and that I am playing two opponents from a school in Malaysia. The boxes on the right of my name are the answers which were incorrect. Three strikes and you're out! At the end of the minute, the one with most answers correct obviously wins.

The Junior School also did a maths activity, devised by Mrs Anderson:

A lot of enjoyable work to do

And here are three boys hard at work:

Friday - finished now. Below are some of the 6th Form competing across the world.

Mr Smith took Assembly this morning, as the Headmaster had taken some Scholarship candidates to Wellington.

Before the regular awards, he congratulated T Ren on his Academic Scholarship to the City of London School. We had actually heard about this last Thursday, but it was received just too late for that assembly. Well done to him and our other two successful candidates so far, and best wishes to the others.

What do these mean? If a Superstar is awarded for really special work, the recipient shakes the Headmaster's (or Mr Smith's, today!) hand in Assembly and receives three pluses, and of course a round of applause from the staff and boys. If it is a Highly Commended - still extremely good work - those recipients remain seated, but get a round of applause and two pluses.

After the awards Mr Smith told everyone how lucky we are at Caldicott. We have fantastic pitches, and have had almost a full games season so far this month, when many other schools have had hardly any because their pitches have been waterlogged. A week ago several of ours were under water - but just a few days later they are among the best in the country. The ground staff do a fantastic job here, and he reminded the boys to thank them.

To conclude with pitches, Mr Chapman (Geography) sent the picture below, showing the final of the Terrington Hall Rugby Sevens tournament, where we won the shield. Their pitch looks good, but ours may be even better! In case you can't recognise the boys, thanks to him for identifying the players from such a distance!

Caldicott are in the foreground
E Rowell is on the right, taking a conversion on our way to a 12-7 victory over Durham Chorister School.
Pictured from right to left are E Rowell, M Arzt-Jones, O Parsons, E Taylor, A Clayton, L Stalder & N Kim

Well done to the U9 team. who raced at Horris Hill yesterday. They were 1st in their age-group. The picture below was taken by Mrs Anderson (Head of the Junior School), and shows her husband (obviously Mr Anderson! - Head of Classics, and in charge of Cross Country).

The picture at the bottom is M Du Toit's winner's medal.

Mr Anderson with  the team: M Du Toit, F Heffer, G Green, C Sellers, W Hobbs

The winners' medal

Once more Jenkins are the winners for the week. Just a pity that they didn't quite get to 200, despite waiting an extra hour!