CyberFirst Girls Competition – Year 8 Rise to the Challenge!

This term, 31 of our Year 8 students represented the school in the CyberFirst Girls Competition, a national challenge designed to inspire the next generation of female cyber-security experts. Competing across eight enthusiastic teams, our students tackled codebreaking missions, online safety challenges, logic puzzles, and real-world cyber problems designed to ignite interest in digital security. 

This year’s competition brings an exciting range of individual, team, and school prizes, including laptops for every girl on a winning team, a grand prize-winning dinner and celebration day for top-ranking teams, and cash prizes for schools. 

These prizes offer a brilliant incentive, but even more importantly, the competition provides a valuable opportunity for students to develop teamwork, resilience, and critical-thinking skills while exploring potential pathways into STEM and cyber-security careers. 

Our Year 8 teams have approached every challenge with enthusiasm, creativity, and determination. We are extremely proud of their effort, enthusiasm, and resilience—well done to everyone who took part! 

BREAKING NEWS: We have just found out that the team placed 6th amongst all the schools who took place in the North East - Well done!!