The pupils at Gladstone Road Junior School put normal classes to one side for the day to spend time visiting workshops designed to show them the relevance of maths in day to day life.

The maths fair was organised by North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership (NYBEP) and people from various organisations took time out to help the children understand how maths can be applied in a variety of circumstances. The Evening News sent along a team to take part in the event.

Reporter John Ritchie said: "Most people would recognise that people involved in the production of a newspaper need a pretty good grasp of English. "I went along with my colleagues Ben Nolan, who manages our digital content or website, and Claire Wardle who runs our newspaper sales operation, to explain to the children how maths also plays a significant part in what we do.

"As a reporter I might be asked to write a story so many column inches long or 250 words long. It's not an obvious relationship but there is definitely a link between what I do and maths.

"Other departments at the paper, such as our website and newspaper sales, have to use all kinds of statistics and measurements to work efficiently.

"We had a great time at the school, the children were very enthusiastic and incredibly well behaved and the workshop we ran was well received."

Other organisations taking part were NYBEP, which ran a workshop on code busting, Scarborough Council, which ran Safe Routes to School and Using Budgets, the Centre for Global Education – Is it a Fair Share? about Fairtrade and Plan a Holiday by Scarborough Sixth Form College students Wendy Taylor, primary partnership advisor with NYBEP, said: "We would like to thank everybody who helped to make the day such a success, especially all the business partners and volunteers who gave their time."