Description
Heathfield House School is Independent Primary school in Hounslow for kids aged 4 to 11 (Gender - Mixed )
Heathfield House School is an independent primary school for boys and girls from four to eleven years. It opened in September 2004 as a result of my sister's and my quest to provide an education that is enjoyable, complete and individual.The school aims to provide a stimulating, well-balanced and varied education, helping each child to develop his or her full potential intellectually, socially and physically. The school’s strength lies in its small and vibrant community, in which each child’s individual needs, strengths and interests are recognised and valued in a secure, supportive and caring environment.The children of Heathfield House School are confident, curious and enthusiastic learners, able to think independently and live happily and co-operatively. I have a passion for education and believe that all pupils attending Heathfield House School will be inspired, challenged and motivated in order to enjoy their most formative years of learning.
Facilities
RECEPTION CLASS
Children join Reception class at Heathfield House School in the September after their fourth birthday. This introduction into education is vitally important. To enable a seamless transition into school life, the school day is planned to ensure children make the academic progress parents seek whilst allowing children to learn through play.The children of Heathfield House School are active and inquisitive learners and they are challenged and extended to reach their potential. In Reception, children have a class teacher who delivers most of the curriculum. Specialists are employed for Physical Education and are used in other areas of the curriculum if appropriate. A topic-based approach offers numerous opportunities for the children to be creative in a variety of ways and to link different subjects together. Much emphasis is placed on Literacy and Numeracy to ensure children have a solid foundation on which to build their future learning.
YEARS 1 AND 2
In Year 1 and Year 2, children continue to be taught through a topic-based approach. Children are encouraged to make connections between areas of learning and their own experiences. A strong focus continues to be placed on Literacy and Numeracy to allow children to develop the key skills required for their ongoing education.Teaching continues to build on children’s Early Years learning of Letters and Sounds. Year 1 and 2 children read each day to an adult to develop their reading as well as their comprehension skills.
YEARS 3 TO 6
Children move away from topic led learning and follow a more traditional timetable at this stage. Literacy, Numeracy, Science, History, Geography, French, Religious Education, Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education, Physical Education, Computing, Music, Art and Design and Technology are taught as separate lessons. As the children get older more specialist teachers are used to give the children the in-depth knowledge they seek and require. During these years the children grow in confidence, learn to work independently and develop greater responsibility. Weekly homework is set to give children the opportunity to work independently and develop their learning skills.As children enter Year 5, in order for them to feel confident and comfortable with the secondary school entrance process, we begin weekly preparation. In Year 5, the children start to learn the techniques required for Verbal Reasoning and Non-verbal Reasoning and continue to develop these skills going into Year 6.
Features
Things to note
PHYSICAL EDUCATION, MUSIC & THE ARTS
Great emphasis is placed on enabling our children to experience a wide variety of activities from a young age to work out where their own strengths lie. As a result of this, sport, music and the arts play an important role in the curriculum.During Physical Education sessions the children learn a variety of skills and games such as football, hockey, rugby, gymnastics, dance, rounders, cricket and athletics to name a few. We use a variety of sporting facilities in the local vicinity. Throughout the school year, children take part in sporting fixtures as well as the school’s swimming gala and sports day. All children from Reception onwards swim weekly at a local swimming pool. They also have the opportunity to swim competitively both locally and nationally. We offer many sports clubs, both before school and at lunchtime. In these, children may develop and extend their sporting skills.
TRIPS
Educational visits are arranged to enrich the children’s educational experience. Educational visits often reinforce and enable a greater understanding of the learning within the normal school environment. Frequently these experiences stay with the children for a long time after the visit. Each year group has a varied programme of trips as well as speakers visiting the school. We make the most of parents’ knowledge and expertise by inviting them into the classroom where appropriate. Ordinarily no charge is made for trips and visits.
Extra Curricular
Please check the school website link for details.
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