PUPILS from a Worcester school secured second place in an annual Maths quiz.

A group of year 10 maths students from Nunnery Wood High School were up against 32 competing schools which had put forward a total of 100 teams at the Maths Big Quiz.

Carla Shipley, Hannah Bai, Yasmin Li, and Harry Church made up the team that finished runners up.

The students were tested on a specialist round on Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan which they had researched prior to the event, as well as competing in a countdown round and a match-stick moving challenge.

The school's three teams all finished in the top 12 with two teams in the top five.

The teams scored 49, 55 and 56 points each out of a maximum of 60.

Mathematics teacher, Ryan Doran said: "The twelve pupils who represented the school should be proud of both their effort and impeccable behaviour.

"Their team work and enthusiasm for the event was fantastic.

"At the halfway stage we were winning, having achieved forty out of forty for the first four rounds and in the end we were beaten by just a single mark."

The school has previously won the competition for two years running.

This year's event took place at the University of Birmingham on Wednesday, March 8.