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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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Economics

Curriculum Narrative

 

Economics seeks to analyse and describe the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. By the end of the A level Economics course, students will have a greater understanding of government policy and strategy and why they make the decisions they do. Furthermore, students will have an array of knowledge built up on global trade, poverty, competition, employment, fiscal/monetary policy. Additionally, students will learn and take a closer look at how our banking system helps the economy and of course supply and demand and how it affects consumers producers and governments. During their course of study, students will be encouraged to develop a critical approach to economic models and methods of enquiry. They will have a good knowledge of developments in the UK economy and government policies over the past fifteen years.

 

Our intent is that, having learned a rigorous and broad two-year curriculum, our students will be ready to study economics and related courses at university. It takes account of the fact that few of our young people will begin the course with the depth of powerful knowledge which the exam specifications assumes.

 

Students will be expected to acquire competence in quantitative skills that are relevant to the subject content and be familiar with the various types of statistical and other data which are commonly used by economists. They should be able to make relevant calculations from economic data and be able to interpret data. Students should understand the role of evidence in economic decision making but should appreciate the importance of value judgements.

 

It is expected that students will acquire a good knowledge of trends and developments in the economy which have taken place over the past fifteen years and also have an awareness of earlier events where this helps to give recent developments a longer-term perspective.

 

Key Principles of Economics A Level

  • Studying Economics will enable students to apply economic theory to support analysis of current economic problems and issues, and encourage students to appreciate the interrelationships between microeconomics and macroeconomics
  • Economics A level draws together knowledge and skills from a number of subject domains and enables students to consider contemporary issues using an interdisciplinary approach
  • Economics A level will prepare students for the next stage in their education as it cultivates the kinds of knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in the workplace or university such as how to analyse data, think critically about issues and make informed decisions

 

What we intend students to learn in broad detail

Economics

Year 1

Year 2

AQA A Level Economics

  • The operation of markets and market failure

-This area of the curriculum is primarily about microeconomics. Students will be required to acquire knowledge and understanding of a selection of microeconomic models and to apply these to current problems and issues. Models such as demand and supply, the operation of the price mechanism and causes of market failure are central to this part of the curriculum

 

 

 

 

 

  • The national economy in a global context

-This area of the curriculum is primarily about macroeconomics. Students will be required to acquire knowledge and understanding of AD/AS analysis and should be provided with opportunities to use this analysis to explore recent and current economic behaviour. They should understand, and be able to analyse and evaluate, macroeconomic policy

  • Individuals, firms, markets and market failure

-Students will be required to build upon knowledge and understanding of a selection of microeconomic models and to apply these to current problems and issues. New models such as perfect competition, monopoly and wider causes of market failure are central to this part of the specification. Students will need to demonstrate a realistic understanding of the decisions made by firms and how their behaviour can be affected by the structure and characteristics of the industry in which they operate. Other key models relate to the operation of labour markets, wage determination and causes of inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth.

 

  • The national and international economy

-Students should have a deepening knowledge of developments in the UK economy and government policies over the past fifteen years. They should also be aware of developments in the world economy, including the European Union, and how these have affected the UK. Students should recognise that there are a number of models demonstrating how the macroeconomy works and should appreciate that different economic models provide insights into different aspects of the behaviour of the macroeconomy.