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03/10/24

We are so proud of our Year 6 football team; they played brilliantly at an inter-school match in Orpington (and ended up getting very muddy!) pic.twitter.com/3SpmGsmA3E

03/10/24

If you're working on your English, please come and join our "English for Speakers of Other Languages" course, starting next Thursday, 1pm! pic.twitter.com/beEPsC5kiM

03/10/24

Please come and join us for these Online Safety Talks:EYFS + KS1: October 7th at 9.00am or 2.45pm KS2: October 14th at 9.00am or 2.45pm pic.twitter.com/v3WZSJcdly

01/10/24

Thank you all for attending our Phonics Coffee morning - we learned all about set one sounds, and how to support our children with early reading! pic.twitter.com/93xRqVbufR

30/09/24

💛⭐️ Wear It Yellow (and donate £1 if possible!) on October 10th! ⭐️ 💛 pic.twitter.com/0T4l1OEfr6

23/09/24

Reception met the colour monster this week and they have been helping him during continuous provision. They have made and written about their own colour monsters and sorted different colours into jars to help with talking about feelings! pic.twitter.com/NJcVcsBrWS

23/09/24

In art today, Year 6 have been looking at how observations and working from reference improve outcomes! They had a go at a continuous line drawing, blind drawing and a detailed drawing and then made comparisons! ✏️ pic.twitter.com/kz19p6yjtD

23/09/24

Last week our Year 3s had their first violin and cello lessons with ! Even Mr Kember and Miss Ing are learning! 🎻 pic.twitter.com/cKmuuBxT6Y

20/09/24

Today our Year 3s were experimenting whether a magnet has to touch an object for it to have an effect! pic.twitter.com/WvjK1sGc43

17/09/24

In D.T today, Year 6 have been tasting different herbs and spices that they could consider using in their bread designs. They then gave them a score based on a range of factors! 🌶️ pic.twitter.com/K9aw91zWVy

17/09/24

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14/09/24

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14/09/24

Our new class corridor displays started going up last night! This year our classes are named after flowers. How beautiful do these displays look! 💐 pic.twitter.com/pXcdFGnxDe

11/09/24

Last week in Science, the children in Year 1 were matching body parts to their names. They really enjoyed this and were able to then label this in their books! 👩🏼‍🔬 pic.twitter.com/7Wj7RJlOLB

11/09/24

Reception are so proud of their writing from their first week at school! They are learning to take care of their books and to hold their pencils carefully. They can't wait to learn more sounds with RWI Phonics! pic.twitter.com/NxOHkQgboT

09/09/24

Our Early Years team engaged in some brilliant CPD this afternoon on what makes a high-quality interaction! pic.twitter.com/EtdWS9Sbak

09/09/24

Over the last few days, Year 6 have been producing some phenomenal autobiographies based on their class flower! They have been writing as if they were the flower themselves going, reminiscing on the different stages of their lives! 🪻 pic.twitter.com/bzPhCdmQk1

06/09/24

Today our Year 3 children used Newton metres to measure the amount of force of various objects, what brilliant scientists! pic.twitter.com/OSsP8H6ReD

06/09/24

In today’s digital landscape, it can be a challenge to safeguard children from the many hidden dangers of the online world 🤔. This , we’re bringing you expert advice on how to use parental controls on devices 👩‍👦‍👧🎛️Download >> https://t.co/Emt3zxFJfc pic.twitter.com/cBdHafSClo

20/07/24

We had such an amazing time at the Carnival yesterday - thank you so much for all the support and contributions! 🎪☀️🍦 pic.twitter.com/ZSNRSmumwm

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Teaching & Learning

Teaching & Learning

Harris Primary Academy Kent House provides an exciting, personalised learning curriculum, which supports and challenges all of our students and is at the heart of our teaching and learning philosophy. We ensure that all teaching and support staff have access to the highest quality training programmes to provide the most innovative and cutting edge learning opportunities for every student.

The Academy aims to:

  • Meet the needs and aspirations of all students
  • Ensure all students can successfully access the curriculum offer, making any reasonable adjustments required where particular needs are identified
  • Recognise high achieving students and ensure they are given opportunities to stretch and challenge their learning
  • Plan opportunities for students to develop their personal potential
  • Establish an agreed range of policies and practices to guarantee a consistent approach towards learning and teaching in every classroom.
  • Involve all staff in developing and improving the quality of learning and teaching
  • Provide all staff with developmental opportunities to extend and enhance their range of teaching and repertoires
  • Develop staff to deliver skills beyond their own subject specialism and incorporate cross curricular initiatives, in particular Literacy, and Numeracy
  • Identify students’ achievements and areas for improvement, through rigorous monitoring of progress and to plan appropriate interventions to enhance learning
  • Ensure that the curriclum is planned carefully to follow a progression that allows children to know and remember more ina ll subjects.

Our curriculum is formed from various elements.
We follow the new national curriculum to teach literacy and numeracy. Full information can be found by clicking on the following link; https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum.

The majority of other subjects are following a curriculum designed by the Harris Federation, which follows the National Curriculum, and gives children the opportunity to study every subject, every week. Exceptions to this are RE, which is taught following the Bromley agreed syllabus, and Music, which is taught using a scheme called "Charanga" which has been chosen because of its thorough and engaging approach to music teaching.

We ensure that children enjoy at least one enrichment activity per half term- that might be a trip or a visitor coming into school.

An overview of each year group's learning for each half term can be seen on each class page, and also on the indivual subject pages.

Our pedagogical approach to teaching is explained in our teaching and learning policy which can be found in our policies section.