Great Hollands Primary School

Great Hollands Primary is a happy, welcoming and inclusive school where pupils achieve well overall, behave very well and attend regularly. Safeguarding standards are met. Leaders, governors and the trust are focused on pupils' best interests, and pupils with SEND or disadvantage are well supported to flourish. Personal development is a particular strength: pupils are respectful, knowledgeable about rights and differences, and benefit from a wide range of enrichment and leadership opportunities. The main area for development is the wider curriculum. Pupils do well in reading, writing and mathematics, and disadvantaged pupils perform above national averages, but teaching in some foundation subjects is less consistent. Teachers do not always check pupils' understanding well enough, so pupils do not consistently build deep knowledge across the wider curriculum. Early years is well organised and ambitious, though the quality of language modelling varies across areas of learning. Leaders have a sharp understanding of these priorities and have already begun appropriate action. The school is part of the Maiden Erlegh Trust, has a higher-than-average proportion of disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND, and inspectors found an open, positive safeguarding culture.

Strengths

• Safeguarding culture is open and positive, with legal requirements met.
• Attendance is high, including for pupils with SEND, and barriers are identified and resolved effectively.
• Pupils behave very well, with calm and purposeful classrooms and orderly transitions.
• Leaders promote fairness, inclusion and equality and support pupils to manage their emotions.
• Pupils with SEND, disadvantaged pupils and those known to social care flourish from their starting points.
• The curriculum is adapted effectively and personalised for pupils with complex needs.
• Leaders, trustees and governors work in pupils' best interests and governance is strong.
• Staff value the team spirit, open culture and well-structured professional development.
• The personal development programme helps pupils become confident, respectful and resilient citizens.
• Pupils develop strong understanding of rights, faiths, equity and individual liberty.
• A wide range of experiences, clubs, trips, sports and performing arts enriches pupils' horizons.
• Pupils achieve well overall and above national averages in reading, writing and mathematics.
• Reading, writing and mathematics foundations are secure, and phonics is taught consistently well.
• The early years curriculum is well organised and ambitious, and children generally learn well.

Areas for Improvement

• Pupils do not consistently develop detailed knowledge and skills in some foundation subjects.
• Teaching is not as consistently effective in subjects other than English and mathematics.
• Teachers' checks on pupils' understanding are sometimes not completed well.
• Early years communication and language modelling is not of the same quality across all areas of learning.
• Leaders should ensure teachers systematically check pupils' understanding, including in early years, so achievement is consistently high across the wider curriculum.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Great Hollands Primary School attended 93.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.1% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.7% of pupils at Great Hollands Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Great Hollands Primary School had 18.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.3% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 27.0% of pupils at Great Hollands Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Great Hollands Primary School received £8,037 and spent £9,051 for each of its 270 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £127,000 (£471 per pupil).

Across all 8 schools of Maiden Erlegh Trust, income was £9,722 and spending £9,767 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Bracknell · Bracknell Forest local authority: places and applications

Great Hollands Primary School is part of Maiden Erlegh Trust, which runs 10 schools. The nearest others:

• Birch Hill Primary School and Nursery Bracknell Forest
• Oak Tree School Wokingham
• Maiden Erlegh School Reading
• Maiden Erlegh School in Reading Reading
• Hamilton School Reading
• River Academy Reading
• Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge Reading
• John Rankin Junior School Newbury
• John Rankin Infant and Nursery School Newbury

What is Great Hollands Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Great Hollands Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in January 2026.

When was Great Hollands Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Great Hollands Primary School was last inspected in January 2026.

How many pupils does Great Hollands Primary School have?

Great Hollands Primary School has 278 pupils on roll.

What age range does Great Hollands Primary School cover?

Great Hollands Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Great Hollands Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 81% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Great Hollands Primary School?

Great Hollands Primary School is at Wordsworth, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 8YR.