Five Lower Sixth Mathematics pupils delivered their first Primary masterclass to a group of Year 5 pupils on codebreaking and ciphers earlier this week.
The Sixth Formers did an amazing job at delivering the masterclass to our Junior School pupils, who were also joined by pupils from Southborough Primary School. The groups managed to decrypt and encrypt messages using the Route Cipher Decryption and loved using their own Caesar cipher to do a treasure hunt in the Senior School library. They also found out about the Enigma machine, how Germans used it in World War 2 and how Alan Turin broke the Enigma machine code.
All pupils thoroughly enjoyed the masterclass and found it very fun.
The first masterclass in November kicked off the series ,with Alison Eves from the Royal Institution, who presented new ideas on limiting values of various sequences, Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio.
