Mount Vernon Primary School

We are proud 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 contributer. 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.

Thoughout the school, our we use Oxford Reading Tree for our class readers. In Primary 1, ORT is also used for key word reading and recognition. In infants, we also use the Jolly programme 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 appropriated 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 mulitplication and division. Beyond Number covers all other aspects of mathematics. This includes money, measure, time and shape.