Throughout the Maths department pupils are put into sets according to their ability. We are keen to stress that these are not fixed and through constant monitoring and assessment pupils move both up and down sets.
Over the past 3 years we have had great success with Set 2's in Year 11 taking their GCSE Intermediate exam in November of Year 11 and then going on to study GCSE Statistics late that year to hopefully help them in their Sixth Form Studies. This is only done with Set 2's as we have found that the higher tier pupils have a much greater workload and it would create too much pressure rather than alleviate it as was planned originally.
The Maths department provides many extra curricular activities. These include:
Maths club which runs every Wednesday lunchtime with all maths staff. Fantasy Football Competition for the whole school, which is a national competition. Year 8 and Year 10 pupils have entered the UKMT Challenges run by Leeds University for the past 4/5 years and in November the department runs a Year 7 Maths Parents Evening where we try to explain how maths is taught today.