Students and staff at St Simon Peter Catholic Primary School, Ocean Reef are thrilled to share some exciting news: our school placed 18th in the state in the Western Australia Rocks competition, an exciting event hosted by the internationally renowned and award-winning learning platform, Times Tables Rock Stars.

This highly competitive event challenged students in Years 3–6 to answer as many multiplication and division questions as possible to boost their class and school ranking. With 181 schools, 816 classes, and 11,812 students participating across Western Australia — and an astounding 7,210,964 questions answered collectively — the competition was fierce!

Despite the tough field, St Simon Peter stood out, achieving the 3rd highest total of correct answers among all participating schools.

Our school’s results were truly impressive:

• Our top-performing class averaged 1,083 correct answers per student
• The highest scoring student answered a phenomenal 7,587 questions correctly

Congratulations to all our students and teachers for their hard work, enthusiasm, and incredible mathematical efforts!