Students from this Tipperary school take part in Maths week

This week saw lots of activities happening all over the school for maths week.

Our first year’s took part in the Maths Olympiad competition, with Paul Dorney coming first.

Liam Burke, PJ Gaynor and Tadhg Barrett all came joint second.The second years took part in the Irish Maths Teachers Association national competition called the Maggie Gough quiz.

This was an online competition, and we are awaiting the results. Sean Gibbon won the Pascal's Triangle competition.

Our TYS visited MIC Thurles for a maths magic show. All week, we had riddles/maths questions/ quizzes etc.

We had a guess the number of sweets in the jar - well done to Ryan Harnett on winning this. Mr S. Maher won the staff competition.

On Friday, there was a whole school general knowledge quiz where the answers were numbers. Congratulations to the winners from each year group.

First-Year: Ryan Harnett

Second-Year: Mel Ryan

Third-Year: Conor Donnelly

Fourth-Year: Evan Nolan

Fifth-Year: Daniel Murphy

Sixth-Year: Bill Flanagan.

Well done to all involved, and a special thanks to fourth year students Tadhg Ryan, Daniel Butler and Denis Brogan for all their work.

Contributed by CBS Thurles to School Days in the Tipperary Star.