four charities: Hope and Homes
leadership role models, including
for Children; mothers2mothers;
Chartered Management Institute
Room to Read and Rwandan Youth
(CMI) CEO Ann Francke, Kate
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spoke with students and offered
Organisation (RYICO). In previous
her top tips on leading successful
years, ideas proposed by students
teams.
have inspired award-winning charity initiatives. The overall winning team, who
Oxford mathematical challenges for year 6
came up with a highly creative
Following a now established
and deliverable campaign for
tradition for the Autumn Term,
international literacy charity
representatives from year 6 at
Room to Read, included Sydenham
Junior School attended the third
High sixth former Amelia Bourne
GDST Junior Schools’ Maths
(pictured). Amelia is one of the
conference in the Andrew Wiles’
school’s two marketing prefects
Building Mathematical Institute at
and a Head of House. A second
Oxford University.
Sydenham High sixth former and
The day was a memorable
Head of House, Itoro Udoaka, was a member of the runner-up team, which created a campaign to promote a social enterprise programme run by Rwandan charity rYico supporting vulnerable and abused girls and women.
experience for the young mathematicians who were not only excited by being at Oxford University but were thrilled at immersing themselves in a full day of mathematical thought, collaborative work and fun problem solving activities. They
Prior to the challenge, Team GB
also heard inspiring talks on
Olympic hockey gold medal
the history of coding and how
winner and former team captain
codes help banks to maintain tight
Kate Richardson-Walsh was
security standards.
among those on hand to inspire
Part of the day was focussed on
students. Along with other
activities that required the girls to