Celebrating NSPCC Number Day

Great Yarmouth Primary Academy recently celebrated NSPCC Number Day with a week-long mystery that had the whole school buzzing with excitement. The event centred around the curious case of Mr Russon’s missing maths trophy, which had mysteriously disappeared from the school and left pupils determined to solve the case!

Throughout the week, children across the school became maths detectives and expert code breakers. Each day they were presented with a new maths challenge to solve. Once they worked out the correct answer, they unlocked part of a secret code that helped eliminate one of the teachers from the list of suspects. With every challenge completed, the pool of possible culprits became smaller and the suspense grew.

Classes worked together to reason, calculate and test their ideas in order to break the codes. Pupils were encouraged to think carefully about their maths while also building teamwork and excitement across the school. Conversations about suspects and theories could be heard in classrooms, corridors, the lunch hall and playgrounds as children tried to work out who might have taken the trophy.

The excitement built all week before the grand finale took place during Friday’s whole-school assembly. With everyone gathered together, a live elimination took place and the true culprit was uncovered in front of the entire school. Mr Russon finally discovered who had taken his treasured maths trophy, and it was safely returned to him to the delight of pupils and staff alike.

The event was a fantastic way to celebrate Number Day, showing how maths can be creative, collaborative and great fun too!