ABOUT US

We are a Community Primary School in the area of Ashton-Under-Lyne, withover 300 pupils aged between 3 and 11 years.

Our Nursery takes children aged 3 to 4 on a part time basis. Starting from September 2006, we will have a morning and afternoon nursery. Holden Clough is a happy, thriving school where children are treated as individuals in a caring enviroment.

Our aim is to provide the best education in the broadest sense for all our pupils. We want children to be happy and to achieve their potential.
br>We recognise and value the important role that both home and school have in the lives of our learners. We aim to create a stimulating and challenging cirriculum.
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The requirements of both the National Curriculum and Tameside's Entitlement Curriculum determine the content and organisation of our school's curriculum. Planning is circumscribed by the National Curriculum programmes of study and by the L.E.A's expectation that the needs of the pupils will be met by the use of a thematic approach to learning for some of the time.

For each year group, the curriculum comprises a daily Literacy hour, a daily Numeracy hour, Music, Physical Education, Technology, I.C.T., Art, Geography, History, Drama and some other aspects of Language - which are taught where possible, through a theme. Religious Education is taught as a separate subject and follows the agreed syllabus for R.E. in Tameside. A copy of the syllabus is available in the school.

Children participating in activities which end after the normal school day e.g. sports practices or school trips, must be collected from school by an adult.