A SCHOOL which held a mathematics challenge for its feeder schools is hoping to make it an annual event.

Hurworth Comprehensive School, near Darlington, which is to become a specialist maths and computing college, invited teams from Sadberge, Middleton St George, Hurworth, Dodmire and Firthmoor Primary Schools to take part in the event.

Head of maths Brian Hill said: "The idea was they would each send us a team of their four best maths pupils.

"Then we held a competition in which each team took part in five activities. It went very well and the kids seemed to enjoy it."

Zoe Mather, who organised the challenge, said: "It was a really good day. They did maths puzzles, like tangrams, three-dimensional puzzles and logic puzzles.

"Everybody who took part got a geometry set and some sweets, and the winning team got some fancy pens and crunchy chocolate. This is the first time we have done it, but hopefully we will be repeating it next year."

Results: 1 Firthmoor; 2. Hurworth; 3. Dodmire; 4. Middleton St George; 5. Sadberge.