Box Clever visited KSHS on Tuesday, as they have done for many years now, but this time, they performed their version of Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’.
The performance was met with delight and excitement as the actors created an abridged, slightly modernised, and yet faithful to the text performance which required audience participation. There was no lack of willing volunteers.
The English Department
Calling all equestrians. There are two upcoming NSEA competitions at Epworth in November.
To improve Cyber Security, and reduce the risk of account impersonation, we are taking further steps to secure our ICT systems. We have introduced Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) on all student accounts (MFA has already been enabled for staff and governor accounts).
Two leading maths organisations, the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT) in Leeds, England and the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) in New York City, announced a joint competition to celebrate the discovery of the Hat Tile, an “Einstein” or aperiodic monotile, a shape which can tile the plane but can only do so non-periodically (in a non-repeating pattern).
The famous Penrose tiles are a pair of shapes which together do the same thing, but the Hat Tile is a shape which does the job by itself. See here Aperiodic Monotile for the paper and here for an animation showing that the hat is just one of an infinite family of newly-discovered Einsteins The Hat animation.
This mathematical discovery solves what was commonly believed to be an impossible challenge in patterning. In celebration of this exciting discovery, the UK Mathematics Trust and MoMath are hosting a competition to highlight the creativity of mathematics, the Einstein Mad HAT Contest.
The competition is now open and will run until 11.59pm 15 October 2023 BST. You are invited to submit your renditions of the Hat and Spectre tiles. Submissions highlighting the connections between mathematics, art, design, and catering are encouraged.
All entries must be submitted via Einstein Mad HAT Competitions.
Staff are invited to nominate students who have demonstrated a Growth Mindset in the past few weeks. This might have been in lessons, in clubs, in tutor time or simply around school. Please note we already award bi-annual subject badges and merits for good academic work, effort and improvement. These Growth Mindset nominations recognise those who show resilience (academic or otherwise); who aren’t afraid to get things wrong and learn from it; those who have a go, take themselves out of their comfort zone or show that even if a task is tough they will persevere.
Congratulations to Lily (Year 13) who undertook a skydive to raise money for Young Lives Vs Cancer on Thursday.
Her just giving page can be found here if you would like to make any donations.
https://www.justgiving.com/page/h-smith-1685444075424
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