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To: The Headteacher - Jo Tupman
Save Further Maths at Barking Abbey School
Do not remove Further Maths as a subject choice for year 12 from September 2020
Why is this important?
Since 2008, Barking Abbey has been one of the few schools in the borough to offer timetabled lessons for Further Maths.
It has been a tremendous success story for students from Barking & Dagenham such as myself.
It has been instrumental in getting students into Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, LSE, Warwick, etc. Further Maths enabled me to get into Cambridge Unversity, where I've been able to learn alongside the bightest young minds across the globe, and had access to the leading academics in my field. It has been nothing short of life-changing.
It has allowed students from a deprived area to have greater social mobility and compete with pupils from Independent and Grammar schools across the country.
The best universities require Further Maths, not just for Maths, but for maths related courses such as Economics, Computer Science and Engineering.
Other former students have flourished and are now working in global institutions.
If it were to be removed from Barking Abbey, not only would the school lose its most able students, but the A level maths cohort would suffer too without the influence of these high achieving mathematicians.
There is a huge drive for STEM and schools are introducing Further Maths - this is a movement in the wrong direction.
It will deny the next generation of students from Barking Abbey their rightful future.
This petition is supported by the following former Barking Abbey Further Maths students:
Hasan Mahmood (University of Cambridge, Mathematics),
Manesh Patel (University of Cambridge, Engineering),
Conor Ryan (University of Bristol, Aerospace Engineering),
Terence Seow (Imperial College London, Mechanical Engineering),
Omar Haque (Imperial College London, Maths),
Hannan Khurshid (University of Bristol, Aerospace Engineering),
Gurbir Johal (University of Cambridge, Mathematics),
Navdeep Panesar (Imperial College London, Mathematics),
Mickesh Patel (University of Southampton, Electromechanical Engineering),
Abdul Wajid (University of Oxford, Physics),
Ilyas Benmouna (UCL, Maths and Physics),
Omar Shafi (City University of London & Cass Business School),
Gurpal Bansal (Cass business school),
Martynas Saltenis (University of Warwick, Maths),
Natasha Rai (King’s College London, Maths),
Esmé Lloyd (University of Bristol, Maths).
It has been a tremendous success story for students from Barking & Dagenham such as myself.
It has been instrumental in getting students into Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, LSE, Warwick, etc. Further Maths enabled me to get into Cambridge Unversity, where I've been able to learn alongside the bightest young minds across the globe, and had access to the leading academics in my field. It has been nothing short of life-changing.
It has allowed students from a deprived area to have greater social mobility and compete with pupils from Independent and Grammar schools across the country.
The best universities require Further Maths, not just for Maths, but for maths related courses such as Economics, Computer Science and Engineering.
Other former students have flourished and are now working in global institutions.
If it were to be removed from Barking Abbey, not only would the school lose its most able students, but the A level maths cohort would suffer too without the influence of these high achieving mathematicians.
There is a huge drive for STEM and schools are introducing Further Maths - this is a movement in the wrong direction.
It will deny the next generation of students from Barking Abbey their rightful future.
This petition is supported by the following former Barking Abbey Further Maths students:
Hasan Mahmood (University of Cambridge, Mathematics),
Manesh Patel (University of Cambridge, Engineering),
Conor Ryan (University of Bristol, Aerospace Engineering),
Terence Seow (Imperial College London, Mechanical Engineering),
Omar Haque (Imperial College London, Maths),
Hannan Khurshid (University of Bristol, Aerospace Engineering),
Gurbir Johal (University of Cambridge, Mathematics),
Navdeep Panesar (Imperial College London, Mathematics),
Mickesh Patel (University of Southampton, Electromechanical Engineering),
Abdul Wajid (University of Oxford, Physics),
Ilyas Benmouna (UCL, Maths and Physics),
Omar Shafi (City University of London & Cass Business School),
Gurpal Bansal (Cass business school),
Martynas Saltenis (University of Warwick, Maths),
Natasha Rai (King’s College London, Maths),
Esmé Lloyd (University of Bristol, Maths).
