Hannah More Primary is an inclusive school where all staff are committed to the success of every pupil.

All children are valued, respected and welcomed at our school, whatever their additional educational needs may be. We support children’s learning and aim to ensure they are fully included in all school activities.

As a school we follow the Government’s Code of Practice to identify, assess and support pupils with special educational needs.

Through the use of Pupil Profiles, we provide support that is tailored to meet each individual pupil’s needs. Support may be in the classroom, in a small group or through separate activities. Support is delivered by a skilled team of teachers and teaching assistants.

For further information please see our School's SEND Report, Ordinarily Available Provision document and Special Educational Needs Policy.

Hannah More’s Local offer forms part of Bristol City Council’s Local Offer. For more information on how the needs of our SEN are met in Bristol please see the Local Offer Website: https://www.bristol.gov.uk/web/bristol-local-offer

Useful links and Websites:

Bristol’s Local Offer: https://www.bristol.gov.uk/web/bristol-local-offer

Supportive parents- impartial advice and support in meeting the needs of SEN children: http://www.supportiveparents.org.uk/services-in-bristol/

Khaas- offering social activities, respite care and short break holidays for BME children with Special Educational Needs: http://www.khaas.co.uk/

Our curriculum nurtures self-belief through:

• building positive relationships between all members of the community
• explicit teaching of the skills needed for effective learning
• promoting self-awareness and emotional intelligence
• building resilience through strong PSHE and wellbeing

Our curriculum inspires success through:

• having high expectations for all children,
• stimulating curiosity and excitement and developing independence.
• enriching children’s life experiences
• teaching children to be confident communicators with strong language skills
• involving families in children’s learning

A Novel Approach

At Hannah More we follow a novel approach. This means that in each year group teachers use complete, high quality language rich picture books and novels to teach English. This allows our children to deepen their understanding of a text and provides meaningful contexts to develop children’s reading and writing.

Through research, we know that children’s reading experiences are linked to their progress in writing and how, through picking the right literature and helping children to understand the skill of an effective and powerful professional author, teachers can support and enhance children’s developing skills as writers in a meaningful and effective way.  This approach is particularly effective with learners who speak more than one language, as they are exposed to, and immersed in, outstanding models of written English.

While reading their class novel, children will engage in a variety of activities at appropriate ‘jumping off points’ that will help to immerse them further into the text.  To achieve this, teachers will use a variety of approaches (see appendix 11 teaching approaches for more examples) including, but not limited to, the following:

• Explore settings – visualisation, setting description, vocabulary choices.
• Explore character – Role on the Wall, character descriptions, diary entries
• Exploring illustrations
• Explore language choices – poetry, vocabulary walls
• Drama – ‘Reader’s theatre’, freeze framing, hot seating, conscience alley
• Incidental writing - Letters of advice, diary entries etc.
• Authorial intent – grammar, vocabulary choices, figurative language etc.
• Art and visualisation

At Hannah More we follow a novel approach. This means that in each year group teachers use complete, high quality language rich picture books and novels to teach English. This allows our pupil to deepen their understanding of a text and provides meaningful contexts to develop pupil’s reading and writing.

Reading has a high profile at Hannah More. We know that it is the key to effective learning. Pupils are encouraged to appreciate books, to read independently, to make good progress and to take immense pleasure in reading. We aim to foster reading skills which will remain with the pupils for life. Scarborough’s Reading Rope gives a visual representation of what happens when we read skilfully.  Our curriculum systematically teaches our pupils word recognition and language comprehension, from decoding in the first week of reception, to active and skilled readers by the end of year 6.

You can contact school by ringing the school office, on 0117 9039936. Whilst school is closed, parents have also been given emergency numbers for Ms Ramsay and Mr Webster.

You can write to us at:

Hannah More Primary School
New Kingsley Road
St Philips
Bristol BS2 0LT

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We welcome visitors to our school.

If you would like to visit, please email us to make an appointment.

2024 to 2025

• Term 1: Monday 1 September 2024 to Friday 25 October 2024
• Term 2: Monday 4 November 2024 to Friday 20 December 2024
• Term 3: Monday 6 January 2025 to Friday 14 February 2025
• Term 4: Monday 24 February 2025 to Friday 4 April 2025
• Term 5: Monday 21 April 2025 to Friday 23 May 2025 
• Term 6: Monday 2 June 2025 to Tuesday 22 July 2025

INSET DAYS 24 - 25 

Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd September

Monday 4th September 

Monday 6th January

Tuesday 22nd April