We are proud of our reputation and very high standards. Mount Vernon Primary School is a very warm place where everyone can meet their true potential. At Mount Vernon, we wish to promote in children a positive attitude to work, self, others, and the environment. We will provide a high-quality service to work in close partnership with you in preparing your child to be a successful learner, confident individual, responsible citizen, and effective contributor. The teaching and support staff are incredibly hard-working and talented professionals. We put children and young people first and greatly value our relationships with them. It is vital that children are happy, safe, and achieving their potential.
Throughout the school, we use Oxford Reading Tree for our class readers. In Primary 1, ORT is also used for keyword reading and recognition. In infants, we also use the Jolly program for spelling and grammar. Further up the school, we use Nelson resources for spelling, grammar, and handwriting. We are lucky enough to have Nelson fonts on our PCs. This means we can produce worksheets with the appropriate letter formation. You have probably seen it in homework jotters. The upper school also uses PrimEd for spelling.
Throughout the school, we use Heinemann Active Maths. Although it is used in primary 1, the very clever p1 teachers have also made many wonderful resources of their own. These are used in conjunction with Number Zoo. Using these resources, the teachers can take the children through number formation as well as counting and simple adding and taking away.
Heinemann Active Maths (HAM) is split into 2 sections: Exploring Number and Beyond Number. Exploring Number covers all addition and subtraction as well as tables and multiplication and division. Beyond Number covers all other aspects of mathematics. This includes money, measure, time, and shape.
