The school went Mangahigh crazy this week! With Maths Week coming next week, every class got into the swing of using Mangahigh. Our log in page can be found here, where there is also information about our position on THE BRITISH ISLES MATHS GAMES CHALLENGE (including Great Britain and Ireland for the purposes of Mangahigh) as well as the breakdown of medals won by our pupils, the top scorers in our school and the various games leaderboards. At time of publishing we are in 8th place. We are competing very closely with St Patrick’s NS, Castleknock, Dublin 15. They are a very experienced Mangahigh school with almost 200 more participants than us so our progress is quite remarkable. View their details here.
During Maths Week, there will be a special Ireland-only Mangahigh competition and we are aiming to do very well in that! Read about this competition here.
At the time of publishing, we have 154 participants in Mangahigh. We are running a competition in school to see what class can win the most medals for the school by the mid-term. 5th class in Room 7 cannot be counted in this competition as they started a week before everybody else. Below is a breakdown of the school points won by each class to date. (Click images to enlarge)

Our progress all week, documented on Twitter, can be seen below.

Us on the #Mangahigh table. Hopefully we can move up the table and win some #MathsWeek2012 prizes this week!#edchati twitter.com/nenaghcbsp/sta…
— Nenagh CBS Primary (@nenaghcbsp) October 9, 2012

Us on the #Mangahigh table now. Up 35 places in 7 hours! #edchatie twitter.com/nenaghcbsp/sta…@mathsweek
— Nenagh CBS Primary (@nenaghcbsp) October 9, 2012

140 boys have moved us from 67th to 17th in < 48 hours!! Great effort everyone 🙂 #Mangahigh mangahigh.com/en_gb/myschool… twitter.com/nenaghcbsp/sta…
— Nenagh CBS Primary (@nenaghcbsp) October 10, 2012

Tues morning – 67th place151 boysThurs evening – 8th place (and climbing!)mangahigh.com/en_gb/myschool…#MangahighWatch out @mathsweek #edchatie
— Nenagh CBS Primary (@nenaghcbsp) October 11, 2012

Special mention must also go to Ernests in 5th class…

Well done Ernests!The first boy in @nenaghcbsp to score a million points on #Mangahigh A great contribution to the school score!
— 5th class – Room 7 (@nenaghcbsp_R7) October 11, 2012

Congratulations to Daniel Gamon who won a runner up prize in this year’s Dromineer Literary Arts Festival for his poem ‘The Mouse & The Inkwell’. We are also firing ahead in Mangahigh Maths challenges. Even members of our class who are unwell at home are making a great effort to join the challenges. Let’s even try harder next week!

Tom Crean’s diary from 18th February 1902, detailing his epic solo march in the Antarctic to save the lives of his colleagues Lt. Evans and Bill Lashly