Puzzle Challenge Day 2 

MAKE YOUR STUDENT'S MORE RESILIENT AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO PERSEVERE

An exclusive programme for schools who have previously hosted a Puzzle Challenge Day with The Happy Puzzle Company.

After three years of research and development, we are delighted to introduce you to our second programme, especially designed for schools that have already hosted the original programme, aimed at further developing their students' skills. This programme is available for all Key Stages.

The second Puzzle Challenge Day programme takes everything a stage further, allowing students to examine how they have made real changes to their learning and taking the development of their thinking and team skills to a new level. This is not just another set of puzzles to try. It is a superb opportunity for your students to see how much they have improved, how much more they can achieve in their school work and how they can use their skills to full effect with a broader, more intricate set of challenges.

The students leave the first programme with real strategies for approaching more challenging areas of their schoolwork and peer group interaction. In addition, teachers will have gained the opportunity to see their students thinking and performing in ways that the classroom is not always able to offer. With newfound strategies, a renewed enthusiasm towards thinking and learning, plus a greater understanding of how to achieve full potential, both student and teacher will see immediate positive benefits from the experience of the Puzzle Challenge Day.

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How To Structure Your Workshop 

 Reception to Post 16

Fully DBS checked

300 students per day

60 students per session

Feedback On Our Puzzle Challenge Day 2 Workshops

"The HPC experience offers our year 7s a brilliant set of challenges that require them to work and bond together in their new from groupings through practical engagement, and they reinforce - in all they say and do - our growth mindset values, encouraging experimentation and 'failure' as crucial tools in ruling out options and finding solutions, and exemplifying how tough working through a challenge can be, whilst demonstrating the enormous satisfaction when you crack it. More than anything though, the sessions are fun: we don't often have students asking to stay behind at break to carry on with their lessons, but we have had them ask if they can stay in and take on another challenge!  

Ms Pippa Marriot,

Head of Lower School

"A day with the Happy Puzzle Company provides immense excitement as the children develop their awareness of team building. The activities provided caters for every child and all abilities. Once one level is mastered the children can then progress on to the next. A professional company providing enrichment to any curriculum."  

Shelly Kad,

Teacher - Alexandra Primary School

“We got The Happy Puzzle Company in to run some new year 7 induction day sessions. It was really great to see all of the new students working together and building their resilience, especially in relation to Maths. This is something we will continue with every year."

Mr Dom Hardcliffe,

Head Of Year 7

This workshop is great for developing...

  • Persisting
  • Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision
  • Managing impulsivity  
  • Listening with understanding and empathy
  • Creating, imagining, and innovating
  • Thinking flexibly  
  • Thinking about thinking (metacognition)
  • Taking responsible risks
  • Questioning and posing problems
  • Thinking interdependently
  • Applying past knowledge to new situations
  • Remaining open to continuous learning  

 At the end of each of our workshops, students are asked what they feel they have learned that will help them in the future. Almost always, we hear the same three answers...  

 "Never Give Up!"

"The importance of working as a team"

 "That nothing needs to be impossible"

Schools Everywhere Host A 2nd Puzzle Challenge Day – Are You?

  • As an activity to help develop thinking skills.
  • As part of an activity week, maths week or enrichment week.
  • As a team-building activity that will benefit students of all abilities, including those with specific learning difficulties.
  • As a beginning/end of year activity for a class or year group, 
or for students visiting from other schools.
  • As an INSET programme for staff. 


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