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11/12/24

The dress rehearsal for our Winter Show was a great success! Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow night!🎄 pic.twitter.com/mVj1HE24zy

10/12/24

🎶 Yesterday’s Year 7 Celebration Assembly was truly special! 🌟 The highlight? Their beautiful all-year singing performance – such talent and unity on display! 👏💛 Well done Year 7 – you’ve made us all so proud! pic.twitter.com/SfC6Qk9f4L

06/12/24

Field set up prep! pic.twitter.com/TA0UGpBTsE

06/12/24

Thank you to visiting Harris Academy Sutton as part of UK Parliament week. Mr Taylor spoke to the Year 11s about his role of the new MP for Sutton and Cheam and how he represents the constituency in Parliament. pic.twitter.com/1CjfTSq4oS

04/12/24

🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our Celebration Evening yesterday! It was a fantastic night honoring our students' achievements.🌟Congratulations to all the award recipients – you’ve made us so proud! 🏆👏 pic.twitter.com/SosvAVv40V

02/12/24

Our big day tomorrow! Join us for our HASU Celebration Evening as we present the incredible achievements and successes of our students with a variety of awards.🏆We’re excited to celebrate together and look forward to seeing you there!#HASU pic.twitter.com/jy8BjvQMVK

02/12/24

Huge congratulations to Billy, who attended the Sutton Community Awards Evening and proudly received his Outstanding Young Person Award!🏆A well-deserved recognition for his incredible achievements. We’re so proud of you, Billy!👏 pic.twitter.com/TeCQJtyQ5c

02/12/24

Last Thursday, we hosted our HASU6 Open Evening, and it was a fantastic event! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who attended and explored what we have to offer. Excited to see so many future students inspired and eager to join us! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/rtiaaA5RJp

29/11/24

Sutton Community Awards 2024💜 🏆Thank you to everyone who attended the Sutton Community Awards last night. It was once again a magical evening meeting everyone who was shortlisted. pic.twitter.com/hjt7fsddNB

29/11/24

Thank you to for visiting Harris Academy Sutton as part of UK Parliament week. Mr Taylor spoke to the Year 11s about his role of the new MP for Sutton and Cheam and how he represents the constituency in Parliament.#parliament pic.twitter.com/27EmEGFqRD

25/11/24

🎶 Last Wednesday, we held our first Orchestra Enrichment session with Mr. Litchfield, and it sounded absolutely amazing! 🎻👏Can’t wait to hear what they create next! 🌟 pic.twitter.com/9aBimAovUK

21/11/24

Say hello to our new teams and current teams working together pic.twitter.com/cRTUfO3wGd

21/11/24

HASU robotics watching the webinar on notebooks and portfolio! pic.twitter.com/WoaN42jve5

20/11/24

🎭✨ The countdown is on! Our School Winter Show is just around the corner, and we can’t wait to share the magic with you.❄️🌟 Stay tuned for incredible performances, festive cheer, and plenty of talent on display! 🎉#WinterShow pic.twitter.com/fImcA2yuVm

15/11/24

♟️ Our students are making the most of their break time with some friendly chess matches! Great to see their focus and strategy skills in action. 🧠👏 pic.twitter.com/WtPYfq0YJb

15/11/24

Our Year 10 Scholars visited Harris Westminster Sixth Form for a study skills session with The Life Skills Company where they learnt how to speed read, take notes effectively and condense text to remember key points for revision. All fantastic, invaluable skills to know. pic.twitter.com/Ce2MmkESBl

13/11/24

🎉 Our IID Career Speed Networking event was a huge success! Our students connected with a range of employers and asked fantastic questions. A big thank you to everyone involved – we hope this experience inspires their future ventures!#CareerNetworking pic.twitter.com/VwCzEAbv8f

11/11/24

📢Huge congratulations to our student Allegra for having her article published in the Young Reporter scheme! Her insightful piece on the Diamond Riding Centre’s Autumn Fair for disabled riders is a fantastic read.Check it out: https://t.co/8tRcbcxmEK pic.twitter.com/UgmSiMxVwO

11/11/24

Billy has been nominated for the Outstanding Young Person of the Year Award at the Sutton Community Awards 2024!The award celebrates people under 21 who bring credit to the borough through exceptional academic, sporting, artistic, or cultural achievements. Well done, Billy!🌟👏 pic.twitter.com/sysLTEqbSo

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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.