Mrs Copp (Deputy Head, Junior School, Maths Coordinator)

Pictured left to right: Kate Woodward, Alice Everitt, Zara Gulati, Molly Brierley and Alice Lawson.

The 14th March is a particularly interesting day for mathematicians, as its date, 3.14, is the first three digits of Pi, an important irrational number.

The number is used in mathematics to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. While this is roughly 3.14, Pi is actually irrational, meaning there is not a finite number of numbers when written as a decimal.

In celebration of Pi Day, budding mathematicians in Year 6 were tasked to recite the number to the largest decimal point possible. Many struggle to recite Pi to just 10 decimal places, but pupils in Year 6 exceeded this with top scorer, Zara Gulati reaching 60 decimal places. Many congratulations to the other top scoring pupils: Alice Everitt (50), Molly Brierley (45), Alice Lawson (41) and Kate Woodward (41).