11th December 2024
And the results are in!
We are very pleased and proud to announce that 28 Prospect House pupils have achieved a Gold certificate in the recent UK Bebras Challenge. This places them in the top 10% of their age group in the whole country. The challenge is part of an international competition focusing on computational reasoning and last year over three million children from more than 80 countries took part.
What comes next? Well, excitingly a number of our older students have been selected for the invitation-only second round Coding Challenge in March. This round is designed to inspire children to build programme solutions to computational thinking problems.
Participation in the UK Bebras and Coding Challenges is part of the computing enrichment programme at Prospect House where pupils are offered valuable opportunities to attempt timed challenges in coding allowing them to practice their skills and build confidence.
Year 4 enjoyed the chance to apply their learning from their science lessons in a recent interactive sound workshop. They investigated the anatomy of the human ear, explored the frequency of tuning forks, practised sending messages using a Telegraph Key and observed what happens to...
And the results are in! We are very pleased and proud to announce that 28 Prospect House pupils have achieved a Gold certificate in the recent UK Bebras Challenge. This places them in the top 10% of their age group in the whole country. The...
10th December 2024
Our Year 5 girls were treated to a netball masterclass hosted by Mikki Austin at Epsom College. Mikki is a former superleague player and coach at Surrey Storm and, since September, has been the Director of Netball at Epsom College. The girls learnt a lot...
We are proud to be able to offer an eSports in Education club as part of our after-school programme. Participating in eSports bring a number of benefits to the education table. Socially, by playing with others, children learn to work effectively with others and develop...
9th December 2024
Year 3 have had Ancient Egypt brought to life through a recent workshop day. They began by honing their crafts in the ‘courtyard’: mixing ink, painting tomb tiles and building wax cones among many others. In the afternoon, the children rehearsed and then performed traditional...
Well done to the Year 5 and 6 mixed tag rugby team who won all their matches at the recent Wandsworth Tag Rugby Festival! Some excellent rugby was played, showing off their skills learnt during morning Rugby Club.
