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19/10/24

You can hire the facilities at Harris Academy St John's Wood on Evenings, Weekends and School Holidays! For further booking information and a detailed look around the academy, please visit - https://t.co/ZQmjT19b6L pic.twitter.com/RXwx4LDHRK

09/10/24

📢 Come along to our Sixth Form Open Evening tomorrow and see what makes us ‘Outstanding’! 🌟Tour our facilities, meet inspiring teachers and get all your questions answered!🗓️ Thursday 9th October⏰ 5PM - 7PM📍 Harris Academy St John’s WoodWe can’t wait to see you! 🎓 pic.twitter.com/cosKlHBlGO

09/10/24

Kinetic graduate Rafiq Lamptey signs for Millwall FC ✍️18 year old Rafiq had been a part of our academy programme at for the last 2 years. He joined us after spells at Brentford and Watford’s Academy. Rafiq joins fellow Kinetic graduates Kamarl Grant and Niino… pic.twitter.com/MNjfKKHlWs

03/10/24

What a fantastic Year 6 Open Evening! 🎉Thank you to everyone who attended. Each department had the chance to showcase their specialisms. 🌍🎨🔬We’re so proud of our school community and can’t wait to welcome the next cohort of students! pic.twitter.com/aXKESAi3W2

29/09/24

Congratulations to our 18 DofE students for successfully finishing their expedition! 🥾⛺️They’ve shown incredible strength, teamwork and perseverance. We’re so proud of you all! 👏

26/09/24

Off they go! 🗺️🧭Our Sixth Form students are starting their two-day, one-night expedition for the Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award. We're so proud of their hard work and dedication - best of luck to all! 👏#DofE pic.twitter.com/a9L2PGWX9t

26/09/24

Off they go! 🗺️🧭Our Sixth Form students are starting their two-day, one-night expedition for the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award. We’re so proud of their hard work and dedication - best of luck to all! 👏#DofE pic.twitter.com/gQDSUt5Jqs

19/09/24

Great turnout at our Year 7 & Year 12 Parent Meet and Greet today! 💬 We outlined the roadmap for the year ahead and together, we’ll create an enriching and supportive environment for our students. 🤝#SchoolCommunity

14/09/24

A huge thank you to all the Parents and Carers who attended our Year 11 and Year 13 Meet & Greet last week! It was great connecting with you as we prepare for a fantastic year ahead. Your involvement makes all the difference! ✨#StrongerTogether

12/09/24

Dedication, Determination, Destiny – these are the core values that guide our journey at HASJW. Together, we strive for excellence and shape a future full of possibilities! 🏆 pic.twitter.com/RBEIlgJvfq

09/09/24

🚸 Safety First! 🚸 We kindly ask all parents to remind their children about road safety, especially with the busy roads in front of our school. Please use designated crossings and be extra cautious during drop-off and pick-up times. Together, we can stay safe! pic.twitter.com/VVaaK0PrfQ

06/09/24

🎉 We’ve wrapped up the first week of school! It’s been amazing welcoming all our students back and seeing the excitement for the year ahead. Looking forward to a year filled with growth and achievement for all.🌟📚

22/08/24

🎉Congratulations to all our GCSE students on their results today! pic.twitter.com/sUroyOCsjM

22/08/24

GCSE Results Day is in full swing! Best of luck to all our students and everyone across the country collecting their results today. We’re so proud of all you’ve achieved! 🎉👏#GCSE pic.twitter.com/xSVObWP7ae

15/08/24

👏Congratulations to John and Ahad at Harris Academy St John's Wood on their brilliant results! pic.twitter.com/b5NuSDAJkS

15/08/24

We’re SO proud of all of our students receiving their A Level and vocational results today https://t.co/YKA4LOmLjs pic.twitter.com/JmN3mGc4cC

24/07/24

Great to have in the academy yesterday to present to Year 8/9/10 about the dangers of online gaming and gambling. Important messages for students to take heed of as they go into the summer break ☀️. pic.twitter.com/7lEaa7TIBC

12/07/24

🎉 Congratulations to our top 10 schools for their learners' amazing completion of Bedrock Core lessons! 🎓📚 Your dedication to implementing Bedrock is truly inspiring. Keep unlocking academic potential! 🌟 pic.twitter.com/5o4X7DEj8X

12/07/24

🎉 Our school just celebrated Culture Day with vibrant outfits and rich traditions! 🌍🌺 Students and staff showcased their heritage through beautiful cultural attire, making it a day to remember! pic.twitter.com/U6qaKQvO9s

11/07/24

Great to have the London Ambulance Service, Metropolitan Police and Fire Brigade in today delivering workshops to Year 8 on the impact of Knife Crime, Anti Social Behaviour, Fire Safety and County lines. pic.twitter.com/22mWbUyn4y

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Curriculum Vision & Principles

The curriculum is at the heart of a school’s purpose and our curriculum reflects our core values of Dedication, Determination, Destiny. 

At Harris Academy St. John’s Wood, we recognise that improving educational outcomes is the biggest way we can positively impact our students’ futures. We take the term ‘educational’ in its most broad sense: this means more than just a set of results. It includes a child’s intellectual development, social and emotional development, citizenship and responsibility, happiness and success.

We hope that this vision is ‘lived’ in the way teachers develop the curriculum and the way students experience it. We want a curriculum that is designed effectively and implemented, that is true to subjects’ core content and concepts, develops a love of lifelong learning, and creates beautiful work, expertise, fascination and wonder. 


Curriculum principles

Our curriculum seeks to find harmony between the four broad philosophies of what education is for: personal empowerment; cultural transmission; preparation for citizenship; and preparation for work.

Our seven whole-school principles of curriculum are: 

  • Balanced – promotes intellectual, moral, spiritual, aesthetic, creative, emotional, and physical development
  • Rigorous – seeks to develop intra-disciplinary habits of mind; powerful ways of thinking that are developed through sustained engagement with the discipline
  • Coherent – makes explicit connections and links between the different subjects and experiences
  • Vertically integrated – focuses on progression by carefully sequencing knowledge; provides clarity about what ‘getting better’ at the subject means
  • Appropriate – matches the level of challenge to a pupil’s current level of maturity and knowledge
  • Focused – seeks to keep the curriculum manageable by teaching the most important knowledge; identifies the big ideas or key concepts within a subject
  • Relevant – seeks to connect the valued outcomes of a curriculum to the pupils being taught it; provides opportunities for pupils to make informed choices

Our staff body has spent a great deal of time carefully considering what principles underpin our curriculum and why. In doing so we have engaged with the thinking of many other educators, and found Principled Curriculum Design by Dylan Wiliam highly informative (you can download this document below).

HASJW Curriculum Offer

At Harrs Academy St Johns Wood students have twenty-nine 1-hour lessons per week. Students have 6 lessons Monday to Thursday and 5 lessons on Friday. Extra-curricular activities and targeted academic interventions will take place during period 7 Monday to Thursday and period 6 on Friday. Literacy and numeracy interventions will also take place for target students during tutor time, at the start of the day, and some students will have targeted 1:1 or small group support during target lessons.

At HASJW we have designed the curriculum to have a strong academic core, with emphasis being placed on English, Maths, Science, Humanities and Modern Foreign Languages. This is reflected in the curriculum time allocated to these subjects in our curriculum and supports students to develop the competencies and skills required to be successful in KS4, KS5 and beyond.  This is complemented by a wide range of subjects on offer at KS4, including the Arts, Performing Arts, Business Studies, IT and Computing and Social Sciences.

Year 7 – 9 (KS3) Curriculum Offer

In years 7 –9, students study a broad and balanced range of subjects. National curriculum content is carefully tracked to ensure that students have covered all areas of non-statutory KS4 subjects by the end of year 9. All subjects have a curriculum plan which is appropriately sequenced ensuring gains in students’ knowledge and understanding of discrete subject disciplines as they progress through the Academy.  Curriculum plans are regularly reviewed and developed by subject specialists.

Subject

Number of Hours Per Week

English

5

Mathematics

5

Science

4

History

2

Geography

2

French or Spanish

2

Religious Studies

1

Physical Education

2

Computing

1

Art

1

Design Technology

1

Drama

1

Music

1

PSHE / Careers

1

TOTAL:

29

 

Year 10 – 11 (KS4) Curriculum Offer

Students make two options choices at the end of year 9 to add to the core curriculum offer (English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Modern Foreign Languages, PSHE, P.E.). The options subjects are structured to provide students with a free choice over which two subjects they would like to study. This ensures equity of delivery, with all students having equal access to subjects. The options are designed to support the needs of the students at HASJW and meet the needs of our local context.

Students in Year 10 will study either combined science or separate sciences. Students will be allocated to this following their end of year 9 assessments. 2 science lessons are allocated to each of the three sciences; Biology, Chemistry and physics with subject specialists for each science.

Subject

Number of Hours Per Week

English

5

Mathematics

5

Science: Biology, Chemistry and Physics

6

Humanities: History or Geography

3

Modern Foreign Language: French or Spanish

3

Option subject 1

3

Option subject 2

3

Core Physical Education

1

Core Religious Education

Drop down days 3 per year

PSHE / Careers

Drop down sessions each half term

Further Mathematics (target students)

Additional subject – period 7

TOTAL:

29

 

Options Subjects

Subject

Type of Qualification

Art

GCSE

Design Technology

GCSE

Photography

GCSE

Food and Nutrition

GCSE

Drama

GCSE

Religious Education

GCSE

Sociology

GCSE

Health and Social Care

BTEC

Arabic

GCSE

Computer Science

GCSE

Business Studies

GCSE

Sport

Cambridge Nationals

Year 12 – 13 (KS5) Curriculum Offer

There is a broad range of subjects on offer to students at HASJW sixth form. Most students in HASJW study three subjects, with some students studying four. Each subject studied has 5 curriculum hours allocated to it, in addition to students having supervised study lessons to support them to complete the independent study that accompanies each of their chosen subjects. Students will also have two lessons allocated to extra-curricular and one lesson that is allocated to visiting speakers, UCAS, careers and EPQ. The subjects students can select are below and more information can be found on the sixth form page.

 

Where students have not achieved at least a grade 4 in English or Mathematics, they will be supported through a rigorous programme during Year 12 to support them to re-sit this / these examination(s) and achieve at least a grade 4, supporting student progression when they leave HASJW.

Subject

Type of Qualification

Fine Art

A-level

Product Design

A-level

Photography

A-level

Business Studies Double

BTEC

Business Studies

A-level

Economics

A-level

Computer Science

A-level

History

A-level

Geography

A-level

Philosophy

A-level

Government and Politics

A-level

Criminology

Diploma

Psychology

A-level

Sociology

A-level

Health and Social Care

CTEC

English Literature

A-level

Mathematics

A-level

Further Mathematics

A-level

Arabic

A-level

Spanish

A-level

Biology

A-level

Chemistry

A-level

Physics

A-level

Sport

CTEC

 

If you would like to find out more about the curriculum offered at HASJW please contact:

Laura Lewis (Vice Principal in charge of Curriculum): laura.lewis@harrisstjohnswood.org.uk 

Mark Savage (Head of Sixth Form): mark.savage@harrisstjohnswood.org.uk