Welcome to Bruce Grove Primary and Nursery School. We are a busy but friendly two-form entry school that caters to Nursery to Year 6 children. Our students come from a wide variety of cultures with a great many children speaking a second language. Over recent years the progress made by our children has been very good although we are continually striving to improve.
Our School Aims are:
- To enable every pupil to reach their full potential.
- To prepare all pupils to embark on a happy and successful life.
To achieve this we believe they need:
- Self-motivation, self-discipline, self-confidence, and independence.
- A sound grasp of the basics of Literacy and Numeracy and the ability to express themselves clearly.
- The ability to work with others.
- The ability to respect themselves, their peers and develop as good citizens.
- To develop a moral understanding of their actions and choices.
- To have a good standard of manners, presentation, and personal hygiene.
At Bruce Grove Primary School, we have developed an engaging and inspiring curriculum that will ensure children have high-quality learning experiences to develop their skills and become lifelong learners.
Children in our Nursery and Reception Classes form our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). This is a separate curriculum for children in this stage of school. It is planned to enable each child to explore the world in the ways that best suit them.
We believe that children are active learners who learn through their senses, through investigation, experimentation, listening, watching, social interaction, questioning, and exploring. Your child is a special and unique individual and will be encouraged to develop their confidence, skills, and talents in these early years of education.
Our Nursery prides itself on providing a safe and caring environment that offers the children both the opportunity to have fun and learn at the same time. The children have the opportunity to play, learn, experiment, and explore both inside and outside of the Nursery. We are learning to write and count all of the time in many different and fun ways. We also have an area for writing and reading, numbers, puzzles and games, painting, role play, building, sand and water, the list goes on. Pop in and have a look for yourself.
Our goal is to enhance and embellish this curriculum, whilst maintaining a strong emphasis on acquiring the basic tools vital to early schooling. Every day is an adventure and a time of discovery. However, we carefully structure the work to help children develop their skills and relationships to enable them to reach their Early Learning Goals milestones by the end of the Reception year.
We recognize that not all children develop at the same speed, or in the same way, so we differentiate accordingly allowing our more able children to achieve very high standards. By observing all children at work and play we can continuously assess progress and attainment. We maintain a profile of each child's development.
At Bruce Grove Primary we use the Read Write Inc (RWI) program to get children off to a flying start with their literacy. RWI is a method of learning centered around letter sounds and phonics, and we use it to aid children in their reading and writing.
Reading opens the door to learning. A child who reads a lot will become a good reader. A good reader will be able to read more challenging material. A child who reads challenging material is a child who will learn. The more a child learns, the more he or she will want to find out.
Using RWI, the children learn to read effortlessly so that they can put all their energy into comprehending what they read. It also allows them to spell effortlessly so that they can put all their energy into composing what they write.
Bruce Grove Primary is a culturally diverse school and we are proud to celebrate and promote our different backgrounds and beliefs. Our school motto is ‘Unity is Strength’. The ability to respect themselves, their peers and develop as good citizens is at the core of our aims and values. At Bruce Grove, children learn and reflect that their behavior choices affect their rights and those of others.
The Bruce Grove Benchmarks form part of our school ethos and behavior policy in particular being ‘Respectful and Honest’. Pupils are part of discussions and assemblies related to what this means and how it is shown. Respect for others is reiterated through our classroom and learning rules, as well as within our behavior policy.
