On Tuesday, Miss Sutherland took a small group of Year 5 and 6 children to a journalistic writing workshop. Led by acclaimed author Matt Whyman, the children interviewed observers in a variety of cases and wrote up superb newspaper reports. We clearly have some budding journalists in our midst! 

During history this week, the children in Year 4 have been learning all about Stonehenge. They have even created a mini-version of this monument in class. 

Last Friday, four Year 6 girls attended a Maths Olympiad and Enrichment Day at Smallwood Primary School. They had a brilliant time solving problems and asking questions; in fact, they won first prize for asking the best questions! A fantastic time was had by all and they even met the world’s most interesting mathematician, Dr Sophie Carr.

Lower School Yoga club, have been practising the poses they have learnt thus far. The children had to roll a die and form a corresponding position. The children have also been learning a new breathing and mindfulness technique – Bubble Breaths – which focuses on picturing happy thoughts within bubbles; they have then used real bubbles to assist with taking large controlled breaths. Namaste!

Year 1 children have been practising sequencing the events of stories about journeys, and learning to program a Bee Bot by developing simple algorithms. Their goal is to program the Bee Bot to travel to certain events in the correct order. They are beginning to recognise bugs in their algorithms. Well done, Year 1!

In RE this week, Year 1 has been learning about Hinduism and Sikhism. One of the festivals that both religions celebrate is Diwali, and the children have made lanterns for this Hindu festival of light. 

The Upper School was treated to two concerts this week. Many congratulations to all the performers, many of whom were playing in public for the first time.

This morning Year 3 made an eager start to the festive season, by singing along to Christmas carols in the hall. They took great delight in decorating the Prospect Christmas tree, ahead of the Christmas Fair tomorrow morning.

Prospect House school was delighted to find out that, although they just missed out on the Top 50 cricketing prep schools, they have been listed in the ‘Highly Commended’ category in The Cricketer School Guide 2020’. There were a record number of applications and the school was proud to hear the news from what is regarded as the World’s No.1 and best selling cricket magazine.