Hulme Court is a Preparatory School for boys between the ages of seven and eleven years and is the Junior School to the Oldham Hulme Grammar School. Located in Chamber Road, adjacent to the Main School, Hulme Court is staffed by qualified and graduate teachers and is organised to provide a full general education.
The accommodation includes four form rooms, an Art Room, two other specialist rooms, Staff Room and Cloakroom. There is a large area of hard playground and, when weather permits, boys have use of a large grassy area below the school. A recent building programme has made it possible to enlarge existing rooms and to add a purpose-built extension.
The work programme corresponds very closely with that found in good modern junior schools, where children are well motivated, where full account is taken of recent developments in teaching and where high expectation and standard are established very early in a child's career.
A wide range of activities out of school is provided and boys are encouraged to take a full and active part. Hiking and educational visits are arranged at weekends and in the summer holiday a party of older boys travels abroad.
A full games programme is organised with football, cricket, table-tennis and swimming fixtures arranged against local schools.
School rules are relatively few and simple, aim at a reasonable balance between freedom and discipline and seek to indicate the standards of work and behaviour required from members of a good school with long traditions. They are based on the belief that younger boys are happier working and playing within a framework which is positive and fair.
