Category: maths

Financial Literacy Workshop for Year 6 (part two)

12th March 2025

Continuing the programme of financial literacy workshops provided by Tenent Financial Education, Year 6 took part in their second session which focussed on the exciting world of investing and trading in stocks and shares. The children participated in group trading where they were required to...

Financial Literacy Workshop for Year 6

5th March 2025

Year 6 have been involved in the first of four financial literacy workshops, provided by Tenent Financial Education, which form part of the secondary school transition pathway. Session one focussed on budgeting and provided the opportunity for the children to plan their finances with a...

Primary Maths Challenge

12th February 2025

Pupils from Years 5 and 6 took part in the annual Primary Maths Challenge back in November, and this week saw the finalists competing in the Bonus Round. The challenge is based around problem solving and focusses on developing reasoning skills. Our children were tenacious...

Maths Explorers Workshop

6th February 2025

Following hot on the heels of our wildly popular Problem Solving Day came Maths Explorers workshops for all year groups. These workshops provided even more opportunities for the children to test their problem-solving resolve which they did with great relish!  

Problem-Solving Day

3rd February 2025

It’s that time of year again – annual Problem-Solving Day at Prospect House! First on the agenda was an interactive problem-solving assembly where the children discussed various strategies and worked collaboratively to demonstrate systematic working relating to number combinations, shape visualisations and exponential growth. Afterwards, pupils...

Surviving the 11+: a parent’s guide

1st February 2025

From our headteacher, Mrs Kelly Gray: “Lots of prep school parents happily kick the 11+ down the road until it gets to Year 5 when they can no longer ignore the elephant in the room. Read my blog prospecths.org.uk/surviving-the-rollercoaster-a-parents-guide and discover why you need not...

Times Tables and Problem Solving Assembly

17th December 2024

As is tradition at Prospect House, we held the termly House Times Tables Championships last week. Finalists from each year group battled it out to find our current most accurate and fastest times tables champions! The children also took part in a problem solving discussion...