Laois school's out of the world performance in international contest

Pupils at the Rushall National School has ranked near the top of world maths class after a big performance in international contest.

The pupils and teaching staff at the Pike of Rushall school say they are incredibly excited at coming second place in Rest of the World Rocks - a times tables competition run by the internationally renowned, award-winning app and learning platform, Times Tables Rock Stars. 

The school says Rest of the World Rocks required children to correctly answer as many multiplication and division questions as possible, to give their class and school the best chance of winning.

The competition was fierce with 31,855,114 questions answered collectively by 62,630 pupils from more than 312 schools and 6,528 classes around the world! MORE BELOW PICTURE.

Pictured: The Rushall NS Senior Class

The school says its stats were astonishing too. On average the senior class answered 5,144 questions correctly per pupil, with the best-performing pupil answering an amazing 12,094 questions correctly in total.

Andrew Monaghan is the principal of Rushall NS.

"Those stats are out of this world," he said. MORE BELOW PICTURE.

Pictured: The top three performing students alongside Mr Monaghan.

"The pupils excelled themselves throughout Rest of the World Rocks. Not only did they engage in some friendly competition but there was also some clear improvements in their recall and speed as time went on. That's always been our goal - to make learning maths basics so fun that pupils give it their all," concluded the principal.

For more information about Rest of the World Rocks head to https://ttrockstars.com/page/ rotw-rocks2023