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Holcombe Brook Primary School, Bury

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Address:
Holcombe Brook Primary School
Longsight Road, Holcombe Brook, Bury, Lancashire BL0 9TA
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Authority:
Bury
Type:
Community
Admissions:
Comprehensive
Gender of entry:
Mixed
Age range:
5-11
Number of students:
247
Last inspection:
December 2002.
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Background: The school was opened in 1967 and is situated on the outskirts of Bury, occupying a pleasant site with the commanding views toward Holcombe Hill and the surrounding countryside. The building consists of a main school with seven teaching rooms, hall and administrative block, plus four teaching rooms at the rear of the main building. There is also a purpose-built computer suite and library containing 18 networked computer stations with safe internet access. The building is maintained to a high standard both internally and externally. There is also a large playground and plenty of outside space for physical education and other activities. The school aims to provide a broad, balanced, relevant curriculum to meet the needs of each individual pupil. Religious education is based largely on the Christian ethic, though aspects of other religious will also be discussed. The school has no affiliation with any particular religious denomination. A new computer suite was opened at the start of the summer term 2000. The school has a wide range of extra-curricular activities including football, netball, cricket, cross-country, road relay, rounders, chess, choir, recorder, line dancing and badminton. 'Working toward respect, equality and achievement for all'. The school aims to provide an environment that enables children to fulfil their potential, an environment that is, caring, stimulating, intellectually and emotionally secure and physically safe and secure in which to work and learn.

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