Category: year 5

It was our pleasure this week to host the Dukes Education cross-country competition on Putney Heath. The event certainly produced races of high quality and drama! With both girls and boys from Years 3 – 6 competing in a team relay over 2.4km, the runners...

As part of our Book Week celebrations and following on from the successful Year 6 trip to Waterstones last term, we decided to treat our students a little! Across the week, Years 2, 3, 4 and 5 have all had the pleasure of visiting our...

Our Help the Community after-school club put their helping hands to use this week organising a charity bake sale, raising funds for Battersea Cats and Dogs Home. Children across the school played their part as an abundance of baked goods were contributed by many families...

Our Year 5 and 6 indoor athletics team recently competed at the annual Wandsworth SportsHall Athletics competition. Taking part in all of the field and track events, the team did absolutely brilliantly and came second overall! SportsHall Athletics is an indoor form of track and...

Book Week this year was based around ‘Animals’ in honour of The Last Wolf by Mini Grey and it’s message of conservation. Everyone (teachers included!) donned their best animal-themed costumes for dress-up day on Monday. It was as if the corridors of Prospect House had...

A hardy team of Year 5 children bravely faced the hail, rain and wind to take part in the Dukes Education Hockey Festival. Playing on half a full size astro pitch, the children had the space to play some fabulous hockey. Playing with goalies for...

Book Week is always a big celebration at Prospect House and this year was no different! As part of launching our new approach to improving writing skills across the school, we took advantage of Book Week to encourage all our pupils to take part in...

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...

Dukes Education held their tenth birthday celebration at the Royal Festival Hall this week. Over one thousand children from 25 schools (including us!) took part in a spectacular Festival of the Arts in aid of the Dukes Foundation. Our 75-strong senior choir (all of Year...