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24/05/25

🔸️Spain Trip update Spain 🇪🇸 🔸️ Our students safely arrived to Barcelona last night and this morning they all marked Drew's Birthday. They are now ready for a day full of adventures. Happy Birthday from your HASU family, Drew 🎂 🥳 pic.twitter.com/kmYMmnkufl

23/05/25

🔹️NYC trip update🔹️Last night our students visited Times Square and admired the stunning views from the Top of the Rock! ✴️ Today, they're making history with a visit to the iconic Statue of Liberty.🗽 pic.twitter.com/tZJaVWuhTY

23/05/25

Our latest HASU Newsletter is out now! 📢 Catch up on all the amazing highlights and student achievements from this term. Read more here 👇 https://t.co/BZXFtiisec#HASUNewsletter pic.twitter.com/jB4ARH5RQb

23/05/25

An emotional and joyful last day for our amazing Year 11s! 🎉 Shirt signing, goodbye hand claps, and lots of memories made. We’re so proud of you all—good luck in your exams and beyond!💙 pic.twitter.com/Q3uypO7CVv

22/05/25

Our students are now checked in and ready to go 🛬🛩🌍 Have a wonderful trip everyone! pic.twitter.com/Nyxhnxa78b

16/05/25

Today, some of our students took part in workshop- redesigning a town centre using 3D models and presenting their ideas.🏙️ A huge thank you to the industry experts from ,working on the London Cancer Hub, for their brilliant support!#UrbanPlan pic.twitter.com/4fOqPgtwgf

13/05/25

📚 Good luck to all our Year 11 students! We are so proud of your hard work and determination -you've got this!💪✍️🍀#goodluck pic.twitter.com/Qei0KWvFVw

12/05/25

It’s ! 💜 This year is all about community - coming together for mental health. 🤝 Get involved by sharing your positive community stories Find out more about the week: https://t.co/dRTQil997e pic.twitter.com/p7lBTDD2sq

12/05/25

And it begins! 📚🌟Good luck to our Y11 students as their start their exams today! 📚✨ You've worked hard—now it’s time to shine. You've got this! 💪#HASU pic.twitter.com/lxzL1mR6w0

12/05/25

It’s ! 💜 This year is all about community - coming together for mental health. 🤝 Get involved by sharing your positive community stories Find out more about the week: https://t.co/dRTQil997e pic.twitter.com/p7lBTDD2sq

09/05/25

And they’re off! Today we celebrated our first ever cohort of Year 13 students with a special Goodbye Assembly. It was an honour — we are all so proud of you and wish you the best of luck in your upcoming exams and all your future adventures!🌟#HASU pic.twitter.com/tltX981isC

08/05/25

Feeling worried about your upcoming exams? Check out these helpful tips on managing stress and staying positive: 👉https://t.co/zdU2vfGEIz Remember: take breaks, stay organised, and believe in yourself! You got this!💬📚#GCSEs

02/05/25

The SWLSTG Education Wellbeing Service is offering free parent webinars throughout the year to help support your child’s wellbeing and mental health. 🌟 You can sign up to any of their free sessions here: 👉 https://t.co/XuR6xdlf79#ParentSupport pic.twitter.com/oINEosD06V

02/05/25

Today our Year 8 students enjoyed a fantastic performance from The London Museum! 🎭 A huge thank you to the artist for visiting our school and delivering such an excellent and engaging show. 🎉#HASU pic.twitter.com/GNqvDtavx8

30/04/25

This week at HASU we are celebrating Dance Day with some fantastic assemblies! A huge thank you to our brilliant Sixth Form students for their wonderful dance performances — you were amazing and truly inspired everyone!🎶👏#DanceDay pic.twitter.com/pa5uFfXRiQ

29/04/25

We are thrilled to announce that HASU has been shortlisted in the Tes Schools Awards, in the highly competitive category of Best Use of Technology! 🎉 👉 Find out more on our website:https://t.co/5wo3jkcLNH#TesAwards pic.twitter.com/qdx0JlqKk0

28/04/25

Thank you for this cool double sided chapter sampler. I've got a feeling we'll be ordering both for our library 📚 pic.twitter.com/4y5pTSb8G7

25/04/25

HASU Robotics society meeting to discuss new mission! OPERATION UPGRADE 😎🤖 pic.twitter.com/1yg6lW9l1p

22/04/25

Save the date for next season’s game reveal, DECODE, on 06 September ⏳🧭 https://t.co/hGByDsXLji

04/04/25

📰 Our latest HASU Newsletter is out now! Catch up on all the amazing things our students and staff have been up to this term. 📲 Read it on our website – don’t miss it!https://t.co/BZXFtiisec#HASUNewsletter pic.twitter.com/O3Jsv2jUUn

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Our Curriculum

At Harris Academy Sutton (HASU) we believe that our curriculum, which is the substance of what we teach, is one of the most important elements of our work as a school. We aim to ensure that every student attending our Academy has the opportunity to enjoy an ambitious, broad, balanced, culturally rich curriculum which will enable each individual to achieve their very highest potential, regardless of their background or starting point.

At the heart of our vision and ethos are our core values: Innovation, Integrity, and Discovery. We aspire, through our curriculum, for students to leave us with integrity at the heart of their character, ready to use the rich and powerful foundation of knowledge developed during their schooling to find innovative solutions to the challenges of tomorrow, and furthermore to discover new knowledge themselves that will help them to drive forwards the frontiers of our understanding.

We believe that the best way to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s world is with a broad, challenging academic curriculum through which every student can access and engage with the best that has been thought and said. We are a school with our Science specialism at our heart, and our curriculum vision takes inspiration from, among other sources, one of the great scientists of the past:

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Isaac Newton 1675

We aspire for our students to see themselves as flourishing scholars, learning the best there is to learn and standing on the shoulders of giants to gain an ever greater understanding of the world around them.


Our curriculum intent

At Harris Academy Sutton, we intend for all students to:

  • Experience a broad, balanced and deep curriculum, rich in powerful knowledge that will enable students to understand, engage with and help shape the world.
  • Develop into literate, numerate and eloquent communicators
  • Mature with strong character, underpinned by the principle of acting with integrity.
  • Personally develop into culturally literate, rounded, healthy and happy individuals who are able to lead safe, satisfying and successful adult lives.
  • Leave us equipped with the qualifications, experiences, knowledge and skills required to progress onto their next steps and futures.

Our curriculum encompasses ‘what we teach’ in the broadest sense, drawing together:

  • The academic curriculum taught through discrete subjects
  • The personal development curriculum taught through tutor time, assemblies and IID days
  • The wider curriculum taught through educational visits, enrichment, and our abundance of further curriculum experiences
  • The ‘hidden’ or ‘cultural’ curriculum, taught through the day to day experience of being a student within the Harris Academy Sutton community.

How is our curriculum designed?

Each subject has its own bespoke curriculum, designed by our subject specialist curriculum leaders to provide breadth, challenge, and powerful disciplinary learning. Subject teachers maintain their high levels of subject knowledge through regular, subject-specific training and self-study, and draw on further support from active engagement with subject associations and collaboration with the Harris Federation’s expert central teams of subject specialists.

Each Subject Curriculum is developed with our six guiding curriculum principles in mind:

  • Challenge
  • Powerful Knowledge
  • Cultural Literacy
  • Sequencing
  • Retrieval
  • Student Futures

More information about what we mean by these principles can be found in our Curriculum Policy.

Through careful design in topic and theme choices in all subject areas, and by considering the needs of our community, we have ensured that our provision meets the duties as laid out in the Equality Act 2010 and the SEN Regulations 2014. More information can be found in our Geneeral Equality Duty Statement and Plan and our SEND Policy.


How can you learn more about our curriculum?

Each subject has its own page on this website, a list of which can be found here.

On each page, you can find the Subject Curriculum Plan for each Year, which sets out the intended curriculum and the rationale for what subject leaders have chosen to teach and when. These documents provide a foundation for more detailed curriculum planning by setting out the knowledge and skills to be taught during a given period of time.

The Personal Development and Wider Curriculum is detailed in the Personal Development section of the website, which can be found here.


How is our curriculum organised?

Timetable

Students are taught through 6 x 50-minute lessons a day, in addition to 30 minutes of tutor time a day and at least 1 hour of compulsory enrichment per week. The academy day is detailed here.

Key Stage 3

Key Stage 3 encompasses Years 7, 8 and 9. During Key Stage 3, all students will follow the Academy’s Key Stage 3 curriculum which incorporates the full National Curriculum entitlement and Religious Studies. The HASU Personal Development curriculum, incorporating age appropriate Relationships and Sex Education, is delivered through Tutor Time. 

The Academy’s Key Stage 3 curriculum remains as broad as possible for as long as possible, ensuring that all students study a full range of academic subjects until the start of Year 10.

An overview of the Key Stage 3 curriculum in 2023-24 can be seen below:

Subject

Lessons per fortnight

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Maths

7

8

8

English

8

7

8

Science

7

7

7

Spanish

4

4

4

History

4

4

4

Geography

4

4

4

Computer Science

2

2

2

RS

2

2

2

Art

2

2

2

DT

3

3

3

PE

4

4

4

Music

2

2

2

Performing Arts

2

2

2

Tutor Time

10

10

10

 

Key Stage 4 Options process

During Year 9, students are inducted into the Key Stage 4 options preferences process. The vast majority of students are encouraged to choose the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subjects in addition to choosing options from a wide variety of Key Stage 4 subjects.

Students are provided with detailed information, advice and guidance so as to ensure that they make decisions with which they will be satisfied and which will allow them to achieve their potential.

The Academy’s options process ensures that all students follow a curriculum that is right for them, while remaining as broad and academically rich as possible.

 

Key Stage 4

Key Stage 4 encompasses Years 10 and 11. During Key Stage 4, students follow a personalised programme of study based on their Key Stage 4 options, in addition to the HASU Personal Development curriculum (incorporating further learning in Religious Studies and Computing for students who have not selected the subjects at GCSE) and age appropriate Relationships and Sex Education.

Subject

Hours per fortnight

Year 10

Year 11

Maths

8

8

English

8

8

Science

10

10

PE

4

4

Option 1

5

5

Option 2

5

5

Option 3

5

5

Option 4

5

5

Tutor Time

5

5

 

Key Stage 5

Harris Academy Sutton opened a brand new Sixth Form in September 2023. Our subject specialist curriculum leaders have prepared for the transition from GCSE to A-Levels, and our curriculum planning carefully considers the needs of an effective seven year curriculum. Our Key Stage 4 curriculum is intended to provide students with an excellent foundation for further study in any subjects that they should choose to take further.

More information on our Key Stage 5 curriculum can be found on the HASU6 Curriculum Page here.


Our Policy

The Academy's Curriculum policy can be found in the Teaching and Learning section of the Policies area of the website, here.