Students at Saint David's School Tea Tree Gully have placed second in the country at a nationwide times tables competition!
Year 3 to 6 students have been using 'Times Tables Rock Stars' since June 2020 and entered their Australia-wide Oz Rocks 2021 competition held over 4 days from March 22 to 25.
The challenge required students to correctly answer as many multiplication and division questions as possible. Almost 4 million questions were answered collectively by 3,209 pupils from more than 40 schools and 200 classes across the country.
St David's students finished with a very impresisve grand total of 524,641 points. The top class scored 189,909 points with an average of 7,909 per student!
The school's top student Liam from 6T individually scored a huge 41,956 points, finishing 4th in Australia.
What an outstanding effort by St David's students who 'rock' their times tables!
Three graduates of South Australian Catholic schools have been awarded scholarships from the Playford Trust.
The Trust works to support outstanding students from regional SA who intend to enrol as undergraduates to study science, technology, engineering or mathematics subjects at one of the State’s three universities.
Out of the six regional science and engineering scholarships awarded by the Playford Trust this year, three recipients were from Catholic schools.
