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Bletchley Park

On 27^th March 2025, forty of our Year 12 Maths students headed off to Bletchley Park, the famous home of some of the world's best code-breakers during the Second World War.  The trip was subsidised by the maths department's recent success in winning the PTI's Bernice McCabe award.  Bletchley Park is where Alan Turing famously cracked the "Enigma" code and essentially invented the world's first computer.

The students enjoyed an action packed day, participating in a code-breaking workshop and receiving a guided tour of the grounds, as well as exploring the site and all it has to offer.  Highlights included visiting the hut where Turing did his work, seeing some real Enigma machines and exploring the Bletchley Park mansion.  Students also enjoyed the new exhibit on The Future of AI and learning about the dispatch riders who rushed intercepted messages to Bletchley Park, often in the dead of night.

The mathematics underpinning encryption was brilliantly brought to life during the interactive session and students enjoyed facing and solving some of the problems with which cryptographers of the past wrestled.

Maths CTL - Mr J Edwards