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27/03/24

This evening was our Performing Arts Spring Showcase. There were so many talents on display. Well done to everyone that was involved today!🎺🎷🎸🎤🎻 pic.twitter.com/CtYcfeYPkn

27/03/24

Great to see the fantastic Y12 Jazz ensemble progressing thanks to the brilliant work of teachers Mike Rogers and Seb Marlow. Huge thanks also to for your work with our students🥇! what do you think? pic.twitter.com/TUNxrXKVUC

27/03/24

Harris Greenwich Vacancies😀 https://t.co/M5hChMTDRh

21/03/24

The NYJO Learning team is delivering a first-access project – Sound Foundations – in partnership with two local schools in Southeast London: and 🎷🎺https://t.co/Bav9m4j0u0 pic.twitter.com/b1rL3LQS0S

17/03/24

‘Red Nose Doodle Day’ is underway @ HAGR. Students creating red nose doodles for comic relief. If you want to donate please visit: https://t.co/VUJ0bu9bxJ  Thank you pic.twitter.com/vbpMRHFFzt

16/03/24

Our Year 9s getting stuck into their GCSE taster sessions. pic.twitter.com/iUMNjCq1kM

09/03/24

“HAGR celebrated World Book Day this year by having an author – Sonia Leong – come to visit. Sonia was doing workshops with students in Y7-Y10 through out the day where students had the chance to draw their own Manga characters. 📖📕 pic.twitter.com/9EUBUZR913

05/03/24

Year 7 Netball Team won their game against Harris Falconwood today. Happy faces all round. Well Done Girls🏐🏐 pic.twitter.com/O6M3oORivz

03/03/24

Our students cashing in on their positive points. Hard Work Pays Off🚀🏀⚽️🎻#REWARDSYSTEM pic.twitter.com/1KLd4a4PQ5

01/03/24

Our Year 11s in their after school Maths Booster on a Friday. #GCSEMOCKEXAMS 📚🧑‍🎓 pic.twitter.com/hNmI49aX8e

29/02/24

Well done to our four year 8 students who were selected by their peers to be apart of our school council 💥🚀👏🏽 pic.twitter.com/rH9APJFT9o

25/02/24

Year 10 taking  part in a Talent Foundry Careers Workshop. Students were able to develop their transferable skills, communication, and leadership. pic.twitter.com/jqTvZpQqrG

21/02/24

Our students attended a physical theatre workshop, inspired by the play TESS, using sticks to build and explore landscapes, creating striking imagery and working on precise transitions. pic.twitter.com/K3JhTLxaFe

20/02/24

What a start to the term having our amazing Jazz students performing last night 🎹🤩! Thank you for this fantastic opportunity! pic.twitter.com/pAWjz0sZSU

20/02/24

What a start to the term having our amazing Jazz students performing last night 🎹🤩! Thank you for this fantastic opportunity! pic.twitter.com/pAWjz0sZSU

01/02/24

Our year 8s smashing their interviews with the president and vice president of the student council🍾😀😀 pic.twitter.com/pnVggcj0Gu

01/02/24

Another week, Another Year 7 assembly 🚀💥 pic.twitter.com/Jpq3YO51Bc

29/01/24

"Author and Journalist, gave a talk on his best selling book 'Africa is Not a Country'. Dipo enlightened our students on the technological advances of Africa  and incredible natural resources, before the 'Scramble for Africa' interrupted its history. pic.twitter.com/HasqtOtcUk

26/01/24

Our Student Council Process has begun!! Congratulation for progressing into the final round. All the best 🧑‍🎓 👨‍🎓 🚀. ##StudentVoice pic.twitter.com/axnEJDLX3E

26/01/24

Ending lunch time on a high 🎤 🎹 🎶 pic.twitter.com/fR1yoHYyQm

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Literacy

L1

We recognise that for our pupils to lead happy and successful lives with a broad range of opportunities they must be literate. However, we acknowledge that literacy is not simply ‘ability to read and write’ but goes further. Literacy also encompasses the cultural references pupil need to read widely, the resilience needed to meet the demands of challenging texts in exams and beyond, alongside a vast vocabulary to decode texts and express themselves. Ultimately, we recognise that literacy is a broad term for the multiple skills and knowledge which pupils need to be fluent readers, writers and speakers.

We also recognise that being literate in one discipline is different to another. With this in mind, at HAGR we don’t have a ‘one size fits all’ approach to policy around literacy. Instead, each subject area receive training to design curriculum and lessons which teach the necessary literacy skills to succeed in their discipline. We firmly believe that literacy is not a stand-alone issue: it is a multi-faceted issue with many challenges; it takes excellent curriculum design; excellent teaching and learning; targeted intervention and cross-curricular effort to ensure our pupils have the tools to succeed.

Rationale

HAGR’s literacy policy has been informed by recent research led by The Education Endowment Foundation’s ‘Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools’, research endorsed by The National Literacy Trust. It is also informed by the work of Alex Quigley’s The Vocabulary Gap, Doug Lemov’s Reading Reconsidered and Daniel Willingham’s The Reading Mind.

The two literacy priorities for this academic year:

  1. A broad and ambitious reading curriculum at KS3
  2. All pupils will participate in Morning Readingthree times a week where
    • rich texts will be read with their teachers to improve reading fluency and promote reading for pleasure and a culture of scholarship.
    • A reading for pleasure programme promoted through lessons, staff, assemblies and Morning Reading will guide students to select books and train staff to advise in children’s literature.
    • Increasing the lending of library books through investment in the library paired with introduction of reading corners and areas where students can read outside of one room.
       

 

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  1. Provide targeted vocabulary instruction in every subject
    • We think hard about the end points for each subject and map out the tier 2 and 3 vocabulary which needs to be specified in curriculum and explicitly taught to pupils.
    • Knowledge organisers and curriculum resources develop vocabulary acquisition.
    • Continuing to create opportunities for students to voice their ideas beyond the classroom, use a breadth of vocabulary and present themselves in a range of formal settings to develop oracy.

 

 

 

 

L3

 

  1. Prioritise 'disciplinary literacy' across the curriculum. 
    • Simply put, literacy is not a bolt-on. Instead we think hard about what it means to be literate in each discipline/subject and build the necessary skills into our curriculum. We also recognise the gaps in pupil literacy and continue to develop curriculum to bridge these gaps.
    • The teaching and learning blueprint will incorporate high leverage teaching techniques to improve literacy instruction and training will support this
    • The curriculum vision incorporates the literacy strategy and training puts the honus on each discipline to create well-designed schemes of work to develop literacy within their subject