Canal View Primary are good at maths!

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Canal View Primary 6 class, winners of the City of Edinburgh Council area Sumdog Autumn maths contest, with (L to R) Andrew Hall, CEO of Sumdog, Cllr Cammy Day, Charles Mathias, Sumdog Sales and Marketing Executive, and P6 class teacher, Eilidh Mears.

Primary 6 pupils at Canal View Primary School have come first in an online maths competition run across all City of Edinburgh Council primary schools.

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(Back row L to R) Andrew Hall, CEO of Sumdog, Cllr Cammy Day, and Charles Mathias, Sumdog Sales and Marketing Executive. (Front row L to R) p6 pupils Victor Kokoszk and Mohammed Kuri.

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Andrew Hall, CEO of Sumdog, taking questions from pupils and finding out their favourite aspects of Sumdog.

The City of Edinburgh City Council Education Convener Cllr Cammy Day visited the school earlier this week to congratulate the class and to present them with their winning trophy.

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P6 pupil Victor Kokoszk and the Sumdog trophy.

The competition is run by Edinburgh-based social enterprise Sumdog, who have developed a sophisticated online game-based learning system specifically designed to improve skills and attainment in maths and literacy and carefully aligned to the Curriculum for Excellence.

In total, more than 2,300 pupils from more than 100 classes across the city took part in the competition. Primary 6 pupils at Canal View clinched the Sumdog trophy with a score of 794 points after answering over 27,700 questions throughout the week, winning by a margin of 60 points over second placed P7 at Letham Primary School.