Holmwood School
Useful Links
If you are a parent or carer, we hope you will find the web links below useful:
- thinkuknow.co.uk (E-Safety)
- Parents' Resources - Articles written by practising teachers designed to help with the education of your child.
- BBC Adult Learning - Lots of information about getting into learning.
- DirectGov - The latest and widest range of public service information from the UK government.
- Spend and Raise - This is a scheme whereby well known retailers pay the school a commission because the school advertises them on the website. For example if you normally shop online at Amazon.co.uk, instead of logging onto the Amazon website you click on buy.at/holmwood. This takes you to the buy.at home page, you then click on the Amazon logo, this re-directs you to the normal Amazon web page. You then shop and pay for your goods as normal. There are no extra charges involved and you will earn the school anything between 4% and 10% of the total value of the order. This money is then forwarded to the school.
- Milton Keynes Council - Links to main education page and admissions information
- Parent Info - Expert information to help children and young people stay safe online.
- UK Safer Internet Centre - E-safety tips, advice and resources.
- Action for Children - Action for Children supports and speaks for the UK's most vulnerable and neglected children and young people
- BBC Bitesize - Fun activities to help children at learn more key subjects.
- Department for Education - Articles and advice for children and young people.
We are a “Get Reading. Keep Reading. Change Everything.” school.
We use the highly successful Read Write Inc. Phonics programme to teach our children to read, write and spell. Our children do well in the phonics screening check and by Year 2 the majority are fluent readers with the best chance of success in the KS1 tests.
Ruth Miskin Training recognise us for teaching the programme with fidelity and passion – we know what it takes to make reading and writing pleasurable and rewarding for our children.
This badge recognises that we:
- Raise standards in reading and writing for our children
- Are all expertly trained by Ruth Miskin Training – including our headteacher
- Gain the latest programme updates through regular visits from our Ruth Miskin Consultant Trainer
- Support our most vulnerable readers with extra one-to-one teaching every day.
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