READING CURRICULUM  STATEMENT INTENT At Holmleigh Primary School we believe that Reading is at the heart of all children’s learning therefore developing, a life-long love of reading is a key priority in our school.   All our children read daily through guided, shared and independent reading...

Intent The 2014 National Curriculum for English aims to ensure that all children: read easily, fluently and with a good understanding develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of...

Bug Club Phonics At Holmleigh we follow the Bug Club Phonics programme to teach phonics. Daily phonics sessions begin in Reception Class and continue in Year 1 and Year 2. Bug Club Phonics is a fun and interactive approach to teaching children to read and...

Intent The 2014 National Curriculum for Mathematics aims to ensure that all children: become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, are able to reason mathematically , can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems “Mathematics is a creative...

Intent Science is a core subject and is taught on a weekly basis. All the topics that we teach are from The Science National Curriculum and progressions is evident from Nursery up to Year 6. All children; develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the...