Eight Year 10 pupils travelled all the way to Springwood School, in King’s Lynn, to take part in The AMSP Maths Feast. For cutlery and crockery read pencil and paper; the use of mobile phones and calculators was banned by the maitre d’. The table d’hôte menu offered starter questions on platonic solids and the shortest distances on 3D-shapes. For mains, the number course: prime, Fibonacci, triangle, square as well as cubic and a delicious cross-number for pudding. The amuse bouche was inspired by a classic Old Rotary telephone dial. All this wonderful mathematics was washed down with lashings of vintage algebra, 2022.

It is a gentle competition, in that an overall winner was not declared, but in two of the four rounds Gresham’s came top and we were able to raise a base to an index to celebrate.