Maths Olympiad Results 

At Magill School, developing strong mathematicians starts long before students in Year 3-6 start the Maths Olympiad challenge. Across the school, from Reception to Year 6, our teachers work hard to teach mathematics well, building the important skills, knowledge and confidence students need to become capable mathematical thinkers. The work happening in classrooms every day provides the foundations for students to tackle increasingly challenging problems, explain their thinking and find different ways to solve them.

Our 2026 Maths Olympiad awards assembly was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate what happens when these skills are put to the test!

This year, 72 students from Years 3–6 participated in the Maths Olympiad program, competing in three teams: Blue Explorer, Green Games and National. Through weekly training and practice sessions, students learned new problem-solving strategies and, according to my calculations, answered more than 100 challenging maths questions each. And that includes 20 competition questions, across four competition papers under timed conditions.

There was plenty of persistence, mathematical discussion, strategy testing and the occasional disagreement about which method was best. All that practice certainly paid off, with some outstanding individual and team results.

Blue Explorer Team – Year 3 and 4 students

Our Blue Explorer team achieved the highest overall team score this year, with an impressive 178 out of 200. The team also achieved a perfect score on four individual competition questions.

Team Certificates

Encouragement Awards

These awards recognised students who demonstrated extra focus, persistence and a commitment to completing additional maths practice at home as well as at school.

Third Place Awards, with a score of 17/20

Second Place Awards with a score of 18/20

First Place, with an almost perfect score of 19/20

Congratulations to all our Blue Explorer students on an outstanding year!

Green Games Team: Years 3–6 students

This year, our Green Games team achieved an overall score of 165 out of 200, including perfect team scores on four competition questions. This team also recorded the biggest improvement across the three teams, with most students achieving a score of 5/5 for the final competition paper. 

Encouragement Awards

Third Place Awards with a Score of 16/20

Second Place Awards with a Score of 17/20

First Place, with an amazing score of 19/20

Frankie maintained her first-place position throughout the competition, a fantastic achievement!

National Team – Years 5 and 6 (and one Year 4)

Our National Team takes on some of the most challenging problems in the competition, requiring students to apply their mathematical knowledge, think creatively and persevere when a solution isn't immediately obvious.

This year's team achieved something particularly impressive: they scored above the national average on every single competition question! Their overall team score was 165 out of 200, an increase of 24 points on last year's result, when the team finished in the top 20% nationally. This year's score brought them to within just two questions of placing in the top 10% of teams nationally. An outstanding result and a reflection of the hard work and growth of our students.

Rather than traditional first, second and third place awards, National Team students receive recognition for achieving in the top 10% and top 25% of scores across Australia and New Zealand.

National Team Certificates

Top 25% Nationally

Top 10% Nationally

It was fantastic to see so many Magill students achieve a place in the top 10% nationally, particularly given the difficulty of the questions.

National Team Encouragement Award

A special award went to Jayna from F9, our youngest National Team member. While the National Team is aimed at challenging Year 5 and 6 students, Jayna, in Year 4, worked incredibly hard throughout the year in this Team. Her focus, persistence and determination to fully understand each problem resulted in a top 25% national result. A very well-deserved award!

First Place Award

Finally, congratulations to Samuel, who achieved first place in our National Team with an outstanding score of 19 out of 20. Samuel has shown tremendous growth from last year, putting in countless hours of practice at training, during lunch breaks and at home. There were even a few suspicions that he might be practising maths in his sleep! A fantastic achievement, Samuel!

A Wonderful Year of Maths Olympiad

Congratulations to all 72 students who participated in this year's program. Whether they received a certificate, medal or encouragement award, every student should be proud of the effort they put into tackling some very challenging mathematics.

I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the students throughout the year, getting to know them, hearing their thinking, sharing a few mathematical challenges and learning alongside them. It has been wonderful to see their confidence grow, watch them develop new strategies and see them become more willing to have a go at problems that initially seemed impossible.

A big congratulations to all our Magill Maths Olympiad students. I am already looking forward to seeing what mathematical challenges we can tackle together next year!