Solution

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First name
Charlie, James and Miles
School
St Helen's C of E Primary, Abbotsham
Country
Age
10

We started by looking at the first short cut. We took 10 moves: 60, 45, 28, 51, 96, 81, 54, 87, 72, 49 then end.
Then we took the second short cut, when we got to 11 moves we knew that it was longer than the first route.
When we took the last route we got to 11 moves again, therefore the first route was the shortest.