Young Leyton brainboxes have been crowned east London’s best mathematicians in a team competition.

Four students from Norlington School emerged victorious in their UKMT Team Maths Challenge Regional Final, besting 26 other schools in a series of maths puzzle challenges.

Year 8 and 9 pupils Adam Sukky, Rafsan Rahman, Yasin Khan and Yasin Khan will now pit their wits against the nation’s top maths brains in the competition’s final at the Royal Horticultural Halls in Westminster this June.

They will be among just six schools from the capital to compete in the final out of 180 entrants who took part in the challenge.

Adam, 12, from Leyton, said: “When they announced we had won I could hardly believe it. I kept thinking it would be another school because there was a lot of very good matmaticians there.

“Knowing that we came top out of 27 schools across east London is a really amazing feeling. It is hard to put into words. The whole experience was really fun but also educational.”

Last May, a Norlington team took first place for in the Jack Petchey Count on Us Secondary maths Challenge.

Norlington Maths teacher Alex Zlatkovski said: “We are very fortunate at this school to have some of the very best mathematical minds I have encountered.

“At this school, we instil an ethic of hard work, nothing comes without that. That is why these students were pushed to work really hard to prepare for this competition.”

“It was a lot of hard work but it all seems to have paid off because now they will be competing against the best in the country. Bring on the finals.”