A nine-year-old has passed his Maths GCSE, some seven years earlier than most school kids, after being home schooled. Dad Simon, 53, entered his son for the exam years ahead of the boy's peers because he showed so much ability for the subject.
At just nine, school pupil Tom Van der Velde from Gosforth took on his maths GCSE, and he is also considering moving on to A Level.
The youngster devoted last year's lockdown to "playing Minecraft and doing schoolwork", and dad Simon quickly noticed that Tom had a particular interest.
He told Chronicle Live : "What was surprising was not just how good he was, but how quickly he learnt it. "We would do, say, a bit of fractions that was supposed to take an hour and it would take five minutes, so we
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