Maths GCSE is no problem for Lewis, ten (From Echo)

Maths GCSE is no problem for Lewis, ten

5:00pm Thursday 26th August 2010 in News

BRIGHT spark Lewis Kelsey is celebrating after passing his GCSE maths – five years early.

Lewis Kelsey, of Tudor Close, Benfleet, got a C in the tricky subject having already shown his aptitude after coming eighth in the entire country in his 11-plus exam.

The Crowstone Preparatory School student, who celebrates his 11th birthday next week, will now be heading off to Southend High School and says he is “really happy” with his results.

He said: “The revision was hard, because I was doing other maths work at he same time.”

Mum Diane said she was very pleased with her son’s achievement. She said: “I always knew ever since he was very young that he was special.

“He has always had a good aptitude for all subjects, not just maths, from an early age. He is a real all-rounder.

“At four he knew his time-tables and when he went to Had-leigh Infants he was already ahead of his classmates.”

From there Lewis moved to the Robert Drake Primary School, in Benfleet, before ending up at Crowstone, in Westcliff last year, where Diane feels her son’s talent was encouraged.

She said: “The headmaster spotted straight away that Lewis was talented and started doing one-to-ones with him to help him out.”

Leiws was set to sit the higher maths paper, but teachers opted to put him in for the lower paper, where the highest possible grade is a C, to help reduce some of the pressure.

Lewis, who is also in line for a place in the Essex Chess Team, said he will now wait until he is 16 before doing any of the other GCSEs.

For all his hard effort and success, Diane is buying her son a brand new laptop.