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18/07/25

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18/07/25

📢 Our latest Newsletter is out now! Catch up on all the highlights, news, and updates from this term. 🌟 📖 Read it on our website: https://t.co/BZXFtiisec Wishing everyone a fantastic summer break! ☀️🌼#SchoolNewsletter pic.twitter.com/6nvJNcGJFY

17/07/25

📷 Adventure mode: On! Our amazing students made unforgettable memories on their PGL trip;climbing,kayaking,zip lining, and laughing every step of the way!Swipe through to see the courage, teamwork,and BIG smiles.😃 pic.twitter.com/AQtAUVA99I

15/07/25

Last week, 7 of our students took part in Harris Festival of Music. Huge congrats to Amelia, Alex & Ovidia for representing us so brilliantly! 💫🎤🎻 72c2d6ca-eeed-4e67-899d-070676c64d00.MP4 pic.twitter.com/5JtEzYTWLg

15/07/25

📷 Our students are having an amazing time on their PGL adventure! So many smiles, team challenges and unforgettable memories in the making. Stay tuned for more snapshots from the trip. ✨️📷#schoollife pic.twitter.com/O8qXsBPa7T

14/07/25

HASU students are having a blast in Belgium! 🇧🇪 Exploring the sights, enjoying the culture, and making memories that will last a lifetime.✨ pic.twitter.com/Ehf5Ig9rVA

11/07/25

📸 Our amazing students completed their Duke of Edinburgh expedition and the photos say it all!⛺ From scenic hikes and laughs to teamwork and resilience, they truly embraced the challenge. Well done to everyone who took part! pic.twitter.com/lI18jygtTM

08/07/25

We are looking forward to welcoming our prospective parents and carers to our Open Evening. 📌Important Notice for Current Parents/Carers: To support preparations for the evening: 🔷Students will be dismissed on Thursday at 12.45 🔷The school day will begin at 10.30 am on Friday https://t.co/4FhrLhip13

08/07/25

We were thrilled to welcome yesterday a performance of Around The World in 80 Days! This dynamic and engaging show gave our Drama students a fantastic opportunity to experience the magic of live theatre up close. A huge thank you to the performers! 👏🎭#HASUDrama pic.twitter.com/ihLyHaKb7B

01/07/25

🎉Join us for the HASU Open Evening on 10th July, 4pm-7 pm! Discover what makes HASU special, meet our amazing team, and explore all the opportunities waiting for you. 🎟️Book your tickets now👇https://t.co/S4pwe6qzA0 See you there!#HASUOpenEvening pic.twitter.com/A0L3QPLS4E

30/06/25

Good luck to our incredible Year 11s! Whether you're heading into sixth form, college, apprenticeships or something entirely new! Your journey is just beginning, and we know you'll continue to do amazing things. Go out there and make your mark!#Year11 pic.twitter.com/jF2AQDFHxW

30/06/25

🎓This morning we welcomed our Year 11s for their last ever assembly at HASU. We’re so proud of how far they’ve come and we can’t wait to see them shine one more time at Prom this evening!#HASUClassOf2025 pic.twitter.com/8QT6JiH6wD

27/06/25

HASU at the UK Championships 2025 thank you to all of our sponsors and supporters who helped up get here. 2026 season here we come! Watch this space! pic.twitter.com/yFXbE7twNJ

26/06/25

🤖Our amazing team left for the Nationals at iconic CopperBoxArena. They'll be competing alongside 64 top teams from across the UK in the world's largest student robotics movement. Good luck! We are all cheering you on!#MoreThenRobots pic.twitter.com/BKHCd1x3u9

23/06/25

Our Y7 students are stepping back in time today at the Tudor Festival . They're soaking up history where kings and queens once walked. A truly unforgettable way to bring history lessons to life! 🏰 pic.twitter.com/q5J29KwAvl

20/06/25

Congratulations to , who received the award for Trust Team of the Year – 10 schools or more. 🎉#TesAwards pic.twitter.com/qMdcdho3sU

20/06/25

Congratulations to , who received the award for Trust Team of the Year – 10 schools or more. 🎉#TesAwards pic.twitter.com/qMdcdho3sU

20/06/25

HASU STEM at the congratulations to everyone who made it here tonight! Shortlist “Best Use Of Technology” pic.twitter.com/lgnLo1xy5O

19/06/25

🌟 Happy Day! To all our incredible HASU teachers, your dedication, compassion, and wisdom shape lives every day. You teach, you lead, you inspire. We see you, we appreciate you, we thank you!🩵🩷👩‍🏫👨‍🏫#HASU pic.twitter.com/QzjDlhis8B

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All Academies in our Federation aim to transform the lives of the students they serve by bringing about rapid improvement in examination results, personal development and aspiration.

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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.