'Together we Learn and Grow'
At HBN we are proud of providing a rich and creative curriculum which enables our children to develop skills that prepare them for their futures. On this page you will find further detail of how we at HBN teach key curriculum areas.
More in the section Curriculum:
At HBN we allow children to blossom in a range of creative curriculum subjects such as Art. Alongside regular art lessons, each term the whole school gets involved in an Art Day. During the day, the children are taught about an artist and/or key skill. In the morning, classes focus on learning fact…
At HBN we have developed our outside space to provide a dedicated place for our children to develop and learn outdoors. Forest School sets learning in a different context for children where they can undertake a range of practical activities and carry out small achievable tasks. At Forest School chi…
Writing at HBN As the children at HBN develop their writing we focus on two key areas in our teaching: composition and effect, and the sentence structure and punctuation. We provide engaging lessons using the children's interests and base much of our writing on a book or the half term's topic. At t…
At Henry Bloom Noble Primary School we use the White Rose Maths scheme as the basis of our daily maths lessons. We use the scheme to focus on developing children's mental maths recall, concept knowledge, fluency, reasoning and problem solving skills from Reception through to Year 6 across a range o…
From Reception through to Year 2 we use Monster Phonics which is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme that has been validated by the Isle of Man's Department for Education. Phonics is a method of teaching children to read by linking sounds (phonemes) and the letters that represent them…
At HBN we focus on providing children with life skills that prepare them for their futures. We invite outside agencies around out community to come and teach the children, for example, first aid skills, cycling proficiency and scooter proficiency. Additionally, we organise trips out into our commun…
At HBN it is one of our priorities that children develop emotionally and personally thus we use the Jigsaw scheme to teach our PSHE sessions. The mindful approach to teaching enables every class to have one lesson per week which is focused on being calm, listening to others' feelings and sharing op…
At HBN we believe that emotional wellbeing and self confidence is paramount and key to good academic progress. In our Bloom Room we provide bespoke emotional support for individual children who may need support to improve their self-esteem and confidence, manage anxieties, or develop friendship ski…
HBN is an inclusive school which is proud to have both mainstream classes and a our Special Educational Needs Unit, Orry's Room. Signalong is a communication charity which teaches adults, children, toddlers and babies to use signs to aid communication. These signs are always used alongside the spok…