Category: maths

To round off a thrilling Problem-Solving Week, all the Upper School children took part in fun maths explorer workshops on the topics of problem-solving and codebreaking. Years 3 and 4 focused on a range of challenges which helped them to exercise their problem-solving resilience and...

It’s that time of year again . . . Problem-Solving Week at Prospect House! Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 all had a fantastic time across the week using their problem-solving skills to solve exciting challenges at the Lower School.  The hands-on activities were fabulous;...

Four of our keen Year 6 maths enthusiasts recently made their way by minibus to Luckley House School in Berkshire to take part in an exciting and intriguing mathemagical challenge event. The children investigated a number of maths magic and number tricks, exploring the maths...

We recently held a talk for Year 1 parents to explain our approach to teaching maths in Key Stage 1 at Prospect House. Our parents enjoyed a wonderful morning gaining insight into the concrete-pictorial-abstract (CPA) method. They learned the theory behind the CPA stages, before...

Seasonal change and the story The Squirrels Who Squabbled provided the inspiration for the activities in nursery last week. The children explored using various tools to transfer conkers into cardboard towers and predicting which tower would hold the most conkers, before transferring the conkers, counting...

From our headteacher, Mrs Kelly Gray: “If we want our children to make good financial decisions in the future, we need to give them the tools now. Read my blog prospecths.org.uk/show-me-the-money and discover how we are developing financial literacy at Prospect House.”  

At the end of term, eighteen finalists from Years 3, 4 and 5 took part in three thrilling times tables finals to find our current most accurate and fastest times tables champions. The atmosphere was electric and the competition was fierce. After the smoke had...

Four of our extremely keen maths enthusiasts made their way by bus to Emanuel School to take part in an exciting maths challenge last week. The competition consisted of four rounds including an intriguing maths shuttle and a thrilling maths relay which spliced together maths...

Four of our keen Year 5 maths enthusiasts recently made their way by bus to King’s College School in Wimbledon to take part in an exciting maths challenge. The competition was hard fought and consisted of a 40-question maths relay round and a ten-question problem-solving...