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26/11/24

Y8 & 9 students joined 10,000 others STEAM 2024 exploring careers in science, tech, engineering, arts & maths! Coding to musical theatre makeup, the day inspired creativity & innovation 🚀🎢 read our article in or https://t.co/NY5gzXTRWw pic.twitter.com/HHTqYrPGof

20/11/24

Our students are currently diving into the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge workshop! They're honing their public speaking skills and discovering the power of their voices. Stay tuned—future leaders are being shaped today! 💬💡 pic.twitter.com/lteNGz2E8u

19/11/24

We're excited to partner with the EEF and SSAT on embedding formative assessment, investing in staff development, and driving impactful educational projects at Harris Academy Bermondsey. Together, we're making a difference in education and shaping brighter futures! pic.twitter.com/rCjDlru5vo

18/11/24

Year 7 Crack the Case!Our Year 7s became detectives in a thrilling Library Murder Mystery! They mastered library skills like Dewey Decimal & solved clever clues to uncover the victim & book.📚 Read all about it on our website!#LibraryFun pic.twitter.com/aTmF1IpfFf

11/11/24

Harris Academy Bermondsey excelled in the national C3L6 Chemistry competition—a “mini-Chemistry Olympiad” by St Catherine's College, Cambridge. This achievement showcases our students' dedication and hard work. 👏 Read more on our website! pic.twitter.com/nipFkovqFX

07/10/24

🍰🍪 Huge thanks to our amazing staff and students for bringing in cakes and cookies for our Macmillan Coffee Morning!We raised £200, but more importantly, we helped raise awareness for Macmillan’s life-changing work supporting those affected by cancer. 💚 pic.twitter.com/aY3CwtNHZG

03/10/24

Keep up-to-date with any upcoming events here at HAB https://t.co/BvpAbxDttU pic.twitter.com/7tYmtwnzMe

17/09/24

Only 4 HAB Open Events Left This Year! Secure Your Spot Now and Discover What's in Store! pic.twitter.com/2QyYWPHxUs

16/09/24

🚀 HAB6 & Year 10! Join our online event with top law firms like Clifford Chance & Linklaters! Gain insights, work experience & apprenticeships.📅 Thurs 19th Sept, 5-7pm🔗 Sign up: https://t.co/iz7Z95lJY7 pic.twitter.com/9kXAc3SxaX

12/09/24

You can now download the application form directly from our website! Just head over to the Announcements page for all the details. pic.twitter.com/3UoRLbLL02

22/08/24

We proudly celebrate all our students' GCSE results at HAB! Their achievements reflect unwavering ambition, compassion, and respect. From late joiners to EAL learners, each has shown incredible resilience and dedication. Here's to their success! 🎉 pic.twitter.com/koAkW8V6Oc

15/08/24

HAB6 students are celebrating incredible results, reflecting their hard work and dedication! Nearly 40% have secured places at Russell Group universities, pursuing degrees from dentistry and law to architecture and pilot training. Well done, HAB6! pic.twitter.com/zoD3t8K5Z3

31/07/24

We’re rooting for you, Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix! 🏅 Dive into greatness today at 10am—HAB is behind you all the way! #AndreaSpendoliniSirieixhttps://t.co/9IjzeuWulV

19/07/24

What a fantastic sports day to wrap up the summer term at HAB! 🏅☀️ From thrilling races to nail-biting matches, our students showcased incredible talent and teamwork. Kudos to everyone who participated and made it a day to remember! 🎉 pic.twitter.com/Dy05s7hL4Q

18/07/24

Year 9 students visited The National Gallery on 17th July, exploring renowned artworks and expanding their vocabulary. They discussed "The Execution of Lady Jane Grey" and Hogarth's "Marriage A-la-Mode," enhancing their appreciation of art. https://t.co/0g3o2banUz pic.twitter.com/8uppeePGdA

17/07/24

Year 9 students visited South London Gallery and participated in a workshop, creating collages inspired by the idea of 'utopia'. pic.twitter.com/0dT0GSdygr

16/07/24

Good luck to our Yr 10 students in the Motivez 'Sustainable Southwark' competition at UCL! Join us at 5pm Wednesday to support them in winning the cash prize and TfL work experience. Promoting STEM careers and sustainability! RSVP: https://t.co/qveOsYXkDp pic.twitter.com/FWwJ7A5q7U

15/07/24

Celebrating Diversity 🎉Our Culture Day at HAB last week was a fabulous celebration of our diverse community, proudly presented by our school. Click the link below to read more about the day 👇🏽https://t.co/p6e8O9FoAo pic.twitter.com/uzKq8hnyOu

09/07/24

Only 1 Day Left! 🎟️Get your tickets from Ms. Morris in the Library. Don't miss out on this exciting event! pic.twitter.com/Lvq4JU50ZV

04/07/24

HAB Summer Music Concert Shines with Spectacular Success. Huge thanks to all performers and 6th formers back stage, for making the HAB Summer Music Concert such a great experience. Your talent and hard work made the night unforgettable. Photos by Vidhi HAB6. pic.twitter.com/4RxSMh8FLe

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Curriculum Overview

Every student, irrespective of starting point or individual characteristics, will be provided full and unimpeded access to the HAB curriculum. Our staff will be given continuing professional development which empowers them to ensure this accessibility.

Every student, irrespective of their starting point, will be provided opportunity to learn rich content that allows access to excellent examination performance, facilitating broad choice when moving to the next stage in their education, training or employment. Examination results are the outcome of, not the motivation for, highly effective teaching and learning.

This page contains an overview of our curriculum across all Key Stages. Details of the curriculum for each subject, including curriculum plans, can be viewed on our Subjects pages.

For further information about the curriculum please contact Alex Hall on a.hall@harrisbermondsey.org.uk.


Deep and broad knowledge

The curriculum will intend to provide every student with deep and broad knowledge of all subjects they study so that they may work towards mastery of those subjects. There is the implicit understanding throughout the design of our curriculum that this ‘mastery’ looks different, and will be achieved differently, in each subject specialism.

The curriculum will form a well sequenced narrative that builds both substantive and disciplinary knowledge.

HABG 064We actively encourage our staff to improve and refine their existing subject ‘content’ knowledge through active engagement with the latest academic thought, publications and research. We also actively encourage our staff to seek opportunities to enhance their understanding of how this content knowledge feeds into their knowledge of how to deliver it in the classroom – pedagogical content knowledge – through subject associations, for example.

All teachers will draw on the curriculum to secure their pedagogical content knowledge and all teachers will update the curriculum with improved sequencing, narratives and explanations using evidence of the impact of the curriculum.

How the curriculum is being implemented, and its subsequent impact will be monitored routinely against the intended curriculum outcomes and teachers will be provided with feedback that supports them in that implementation - improving their explanations, narratives and sequencing within and across lessons so that all students have access to and can achieve the intended curriculum outcomes.

Every teacher, irrespective of their stage, is a leader of curriculum and is afforded opportunity to enhance their practice and contribute to the curriculum development.


HAB curriculum implementation

Harris Academy Bermondsey aspires to a knowledge rich curriculum where curriculum is the mastery of a body of subject-specific knowledge defined by the subject specialists taking account of the national curriculum and the shared wisdom of subject pedagogical communities.

The big ideas and invaluable knowledge of a subject which pupils will acquire are planned skilfully by specialist subject teams. Skills are developed naturally as students gain more subject specialist knowledge. All subjects taught within the academy have an intent statement which sets out the inherent worth and purpose of the subject as well the intent behind the curriculum. This is reviewed on an annual basis and all staff within the teams contribute and understand the intent.

HABG 074The curriculum is sequenced in a way which allows an overarching narrative to exist across units of work, year groups, key stages and the whole time in the academy. This enables each subject to teach hierarchical elements of the curriculum in the correct order. It also allows cumulative elements of the curriculum to be introduced in an order which is appropriate for each individual subject. Teams will review the sequencing of the curriculum on an annual basis taking into account the evidence derived from comparing actual outcomes with intended outcomes.

Units within the curriculum are planned to provide a resource to share best practice and train staff in the best practice of sequencing new learning. The unit curriculum plans will include:

 

  • Extracts from the syllabus/National curriculum / federation curriculum documents
  • New knowledge taught within that unit
  • Gateway concepts the student needs to be able to access the new knowledge
  • The vocabulary required within that unit, this will not all be subject specific vocabulary
  • HABG 040The hinterland which will utilise cognitive science to ensure staff share the best narratives and explanations that make the subject memorable and avoid cognitive overload whilst providing sufficient wider knowledge to put the new knowledge into a memorable context.

Each leader of a subject curriculum, along with their team of subject specialists, will choose the most appropriate resources for the curriculum. The curriculum will dictate the use of resources, rather than the other way around – for example, where subject leaders choose textbooks, this will follow a rigorous assessment of the textbook and making sure that the textbook matches the expectations of the curriculum. Where quality textbooks do not exist the specialist teachers will create and share appropriate resources.


How will we judge the impact of the curriculum?

Assessment of the curriculum will compare the actual outcomes of students with the intended outcomes of the curriculum. Each department plans the assessments that will be used to monitor the effectiveness of the curriculum and will use this to adjust the curriculum of future units to minimise any gaps in the narrative of the subject.

In all departments, teachers will utilise live marking, corrections in class and whole class feedback to ensure students learn more and remember more. Staff review the achievements of their classes and then plan lessons to address misconceptions or extend progress.

To ensure that students learn more and remember more of our knowledge rich curriculum, in all departments, retrieval practice will be embedded across schemes of work.  

All students will have two summative assessments point across the year which will be reported to parents.

The academy assessment policy can be downloaded on the Teaching and Learning page. For further details about assessment please contact Alex Hall on a.hall@harrisbermondsey.org.uk.