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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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Teaching & Learning

Harris Academy Greenwich 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. 

Our teaching approach is based around the Six Principles of Teaching, co-written by both staff and students. It forms the basis for all CPD and accountability in the school.

 

Principles of ‘better practice’

So that…

  1. High expectations of learning behaviour

 

  1. Routines and effective classroom management
  2. Consistent application of behaviour policy
  3. Promote active participation not compliance
  4. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition 

 

  1. Minimal valuable lesson time is wasted dealing with low-level disruption
  2. Students can think hard about their learning free from distraction
  3. All students are engaged in thinking about key learning
  4. Students understand the connection between effort and achievement
  1. Quality of instruction

 

  1. Highly effective explanations
  2. Clearly defined outcomes
  3. New knowledge is founded upon old knowledge
  4. Teachers model excellence and how to achieve it

 

  1. So that students quickly grasp key ideas
  2. Students have complete clarity around what they are learning and what success looks like
  3. Students can learn new ideas by reference to ideas they already know
  4. Students know what excellence looks like as well as how to achieve it
  1. Subject mastery

 

  1. Exam specification expertise
  2. Misconceptions are planned for and addressed
  3. Comprehensive understanding of curriculum
  4. Promote and uphold the highest standards of literacy

 

  1. Students are successful in examinations
  2. Students overcome common misconceptions
  3. Teachers are able to confidently teach to the top
  4. Students read, write and speak with fluency and accuracy
  1. Making it Stick
  1. Making connections between underlying concepts
  2. Regular low stakes testing
  3. Practise deliberately
  4. Learning is interleaved
  1. Students can make links across key subject skills
  2. Students can embed learning into their long term memory
  3. Students can develop fluency and accuracy in key skills
  4. Students revisit material in a way which promotes long term memory
  1. Adaptive teaching

 

  1. Support and scaffold  in lesson for the less able
  2. Pitch high every lesson
  3. Adapts teaching as needs emerge
  4. Developed understanding of Special Educational Needs in the classroom

 

 

  1. Students are able to access the learning they are doing
  2. Students are challenged to exceed expectation
  3. All students make exceptional progress
  4. All students with SEND make exceptional progress

 

  1. Effective feedback

 

  1. Timely feedback to maximise learning
  2. Formative assessment is embedded throughout a lesson
  3. Comments are specific, accurate and clear
  4. Time to reflect and act upon feedback

 

  1. Students can swiftly unlock further learning
  2. Teachers know which topics to re-teach that were not grasped first time
  3. Student actions are refocused or redirected to achieve a goal
  4. Students are self- regulated learners



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, Numeracy, ICT and Enterprise
  • Identify students’ achievements and areas for improvement, through rigorous monitoring of progress and to plan appropriate interventions to enhance learning
  • Realise the entitlements for Learners, Teachers and Curriculum as promoted by the Student Learning Commission

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