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11/11/24

Community Champions - NovemberOur theme this month is Remembrance. Today every class presented a poppy as part of our Armistice Day assembly. Every poppy was unique and demonstrated each class coming together as a team.#HPASK pic.twitter.com/66eKGDDbza— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () November 11, 2024

11/11/24

RemembranceThe whole community fell silent today at 11am to have a moment of reflection as part of our Remembrance assembly today.#HPASK pic.twitter.com/zVSUANGAuk— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () November 11, 2024

11/11/24

Remembrance This morning at 11am, the whole school gathered on the football pitch to mark Armistice Day. Mr Hickman played The Last Post as we fell silent as a community to reflect.#HPASK pic.twitter.com/zo4B7pTBJF— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () November 11, 2024

06/11/24

Y3 Stone Age WorkshopLast term our Year 3 children were learning about the Stone Age. To consolidate their learning and prepare them for their history unit this term, they took part in a Stone Age workshop today.#HPASK pic.twitter.com/KPQFnbhvH6— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () November 6, 2024

06/11/24

DiwaliToday, some of our Year 6 children presented a special assembly to the children in Year 1 - 4 about Diwali. They shared some of rituals behind the celebration and showcased some key elements of the festival!#HPAHP pic.twitter.com/EXn2bFTB9F— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () November 6, 2024

22/10/24

Open Days - Reception 2025!We are hosting a number of open days for parents and carers of prospective Reception children due to start school in September 2025.Sign up via our website!💻 https://t.co/QVneclmpWJ#HPASK pic.twitter.com/rH4GH6vfpo— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 22, 2024

18/10/24

Show Racism the Red Card ⚽️ Today our school is a sea of red as we support the important message shared by .There is no place for racism!#HPASK pic.twitter.com/99ZQqHQuNX— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 18, 2024

17/10/24

Hello! We love our name. Harris Primary Academy South Kenton or HPASK, if you want a shorter way to remember us.We are situated right next to South Kenton tube station so it makes perfect sense.— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 17, 2024

16/10/24

International Food Festival! 🌍 🥘 A massive thank you to everyone who attended and donated to our food festival yesterday!Sensational tastes from around the globe!#HPASK pic.twitter.com/sLUq2iGzK3— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 16, 2024

16/10/24

International Food Festival! 🌍 🥘 As part of our International Day yesterday, we hosted an afternoon food festival.The culinary tour of the world was a delight to see and taste!#HPASK pic.twitter.com/QciqRzav7b— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 16, 2024

16/10/24

Bread Making! 🍞 This term in DT, our Year 5 children have been learning about bread making.They put their learning into action today.We cannot wait to see what it tastes like! pic.twitter.com/OImPyEYlEh— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 16, 2024

15/10/24

International Day! 🌎A world of different backgrounds coming together as one incredible community!#HPASK pic.twitter.com/DT32b5cwYe— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 15, 2024

15/10/24

International Day! 🌍 Our Community Champions theme for this month is Diversity.Today everyone came to school wearing clothes that represented their background or a country significant to them!#HPASK pic.twitter.com/6OFsXH6sNX— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 15, 2024

15/10/24

International Day! 🌍 A day of joy at HPASK as we celebrated the thing that makes our school so great - our community!#HPASK pic.twitter.com/6ll8PYle9h— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 15, 2024

14/10/24

International Day! 🌎 Tomorrow, we are celebrating our wonderful community as part of our International Day.We are encouraging all children to come to school wearing clothing or colours that represent them.We cannot wait!#HPASK pic.twitter.com/yDZOlTiM9U— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 14, 2024

14/10/24

Rosh HashanahLast week in assembly, Mr Sternberg spoke to the children about Rosh Hashanah and the start of the Jewish New Year.#HPASK pic.twitter.com/jP7V6CxkWU— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 14, 2024

14/10/24

Harris in Harmony!We are super proud of our HPASK representatives, that sang with children from across the Federation, in the Harris in Harmony Choir on Friday!#HPASK pic.twitter.com/0RJpWfQ2U1— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 14, 2024

14/10/24

Sir Dan Moynihan welcomes 5000 members of staff, and gives a special welcome to our newest academy pic.twitter.com/Zg1qzF10n0— Harris Federation () October 11, 2024

10/10/24

Pupil Parliament 🗳️ Today our newly elected Pupil Parliament Representatives met. They joined a meeting with children from some of the schools in Beckenham and Essex.They discussed and shared ideas about charity fundraising for the year! pic.twitter.com/CXwW83EaDn— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 10, 2024

07/10/24

Emirates Trip!This weekend some of our Y4-6 children visited the Emirates Stadium to watch v .It may have been goalless but it was still a great game!Thank you to Lord Harris for the tickets. We look forward to going again soon!#HPASK pic.twitter.com/k4mlp7P6bO— Harris Primary Academy South Kenton () October 7, 2024

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Our Curriculum

Our curriculum has been designed to ensure comprehensive coverage of the National Curriculum. In fact, due to our careful sequencing we are able to exceed these expectations in each of our subjects. 

We use the National Curriculum as a starting point rather than a limit to what we cover in each subject. We have worked with our partner schools across the Federation, and our central team of subject experts, to build our own curriculum.

We build on the work of external experts for our phonics, reading and mathematics teaching. All other subjects are taught using our in house plans and progression.

Each subject is taught discretely and weekly to support children in remembering the key knowledge and skills they need to fulfil our intent.

Reading is at the heart of everything we do at South Kenton, as we recognise that excellent reading skills unlock the possibilities of the rest of the curriculum for our children. We use Ruth Miskin's Read Write Inc programme to deliver our phonic teaching.

We are clear that the start of the curriculum journey for each subject begins in EYFS, so whilst still following the EYFS framework, the foundations of each subject are carefully sequenced in Reception.

We have a mastery mindset for every subject- meaning we have the same high expectations for every child- scaffolding and supporting the least able to enable them to meet each objective. For us, mastery means that children are able to articulate their learning, make links between knowledge they have learnt in different subjects and remember the key knowledge and skills required to be a master in each subject.

At HPASK mastery also means deepening children's knowledge and understanding rather than accelerating them through the curriculum. For example, our most able mathematicians won't ever move on to the maths that is expected of the next year group, instead they will develop a deeper understanding of the current year groups objectives. This is a decision we have made as we approach our curriculum as a narrative model. The analogy we use is this- You can't understand Chapter 5 of a book if you haven’t already read Chapters 1-4. As such, the deeper the understanding of Year 4 maths objectives we can give our children the better prepared they will be for the demands of the Year 5 maths objectives. We apply this model to every subject in the curriculum. 

We have developed a range of strategies that we use across all of our curriculum subjects that help us to ensure that children know more and remember more as they move through our curriculum.

SMSC and British values are thread throughout our curriculum so that they become an integral part of our curriculum planning and implementation.


Harris Primary Academy South Kenton Equality and Inclusion Curriculum Intent

Harris Primary Academy South Kenton welcomes all children and values them as individuals, treating them equally and with respect. We believe that all children have the right to have their own needs incorporated into their curriculum in order to achieve success through the following approaches;

  • Provide an accessible environment, which is secure and safe, so that all our children can flourish.
  • We believe that all teachers are teachers of children with special educational needs and it is therefore a whole school responsibility to ensure that these children’s needs are addressed.
  • Through staff working together as a team, and in partnership with pupils and their parents and carers, we strive to ensure that our aims are met.
  • Ensure all staff are aware of anti-discriminatory practice, promoting and valuing equality and diversity.
  • Promote early identification of children with additional needs to ensure interventions are in place to address their needs.
  •  Monitor the progress of all our children to ensure they are meeting their full potential.
  • Work with all external agencies and organisations
  • To build relationships with other schools within our community including specialist and other Harris Federation schools.
  • We ensure that our curriculum is fully inclusive and will not discriminate against the protected characteristics: age, disability, gender, gender identity, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation.  
  • Our inclusive teaching approach ensures that all children can access the learning using resources and strategies that they may need, including modified language, additional support or resource.
  • Follow the guidance in the SEN Code of Practice, Equalities Act 2010 and The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014

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