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08/10/24

Year 10 drama students have all created wonderful homework based on Drama Practitioners we have been studying this half term. Here are a few excellent examples. pic.twitter.com/cS6fJ9k7p8

04/10/24

Three of our talented students have had their final Harris in Harmony rehearsal today ahead of next weeks performance! Can not wait to watch them. pic.twitter.com/lJDXHJYHGP

03/10/24

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01/10/24

Year 10 were lucky enough to experience a workshop by last Friday, in which they got to explore the use of movement and the written word. This will enable them to be more physical in future projects! Thanks hope to work with you again soon. pic.twitter.com/aQ7PGDjAdg

25/09/24

🚨 U16 Netball Rally 🚨 was due to take place on Monday 30th September. This has been postponed. Netball club will continue as normal after school on Monday.

23/09/24

HAOC is welcoming Yr 6 students into the academy for an Open Evening on Thursday 26th September from 5.00-7.00pm. We look forward to seeing you there! For full details and to BOOK YOUR PLACE click below. https://t.co/Ef6Ki9a8EO

19/09/24

Some of our sports leaders completing a blindfolded obstacle course to work on their communication and teamwork. pic.twitter.com/Rl9CRNLYPh

17/09/24

Exciting and positive start to Year 7 Performing Arts Enrichments today. pic.twitter.com/RpGXWEH9Pc

16/09/24

Excellent turn out for netball club tonight. pic.twitter.com/UK850o8QYn

16/09/24

🚨 ⚽️ Year 10 boys football training is CANCELLED tonight. Please see a member of the PE department if you have any questions. ⚽️ 🚨 All other clubs are going ahead as normal.

05/09/24

Please see the table for PE clubs this half term. Clubs will begin on Monday 9th September 3:30-4:30pm. If you have any questions please see a member of the PE department ⚽️🏐🏈 pic.twitter.com/MpdUYzNFzq

19/07/24

Moving onto our afternoon events. Who will be this years overall sports day winners?🏆 pic.twitter.com/GAi4ULATrE

19/07/24

Sports Day 2024 is underway 🏆 pic.twitter.com/H3u4tYMTMy

18/07/24

Year 8s having fun at Hever Castle 🏰 pic.twitter.com/7cTDO2Qbf9

18/07/24

Visiting Hever Castle and having an amazing time making memories! 🏰✨ pic.twitter.com/sG3g4tO6fh

17/07/24

Students presenting their sustainable hot sauce Dip ‘n Season at Drapers’ hall Enterprise Challenge. Sharon, Jasmine, Anais, Divine, Capprice 💪🎤🎯 pic.twitter.com/309SAXuSN5

17/07/24

Students preparing for the Enterprise challenge! From 20 teams, down to the final 4. Wishing our Harris Ockendon team best of luck tonight 🍀 pic.twitter.com/XNJtgHDUcF

17/07/24

Year 12s had a great time making memories at Chessington World of Adventures today 🎢🎡😎 pic.twitter.com/ezEhvFJYdY

17/07/24

Students having fun in the Natural History Museum 😎 pic.twitter.com/B8DPY5UpJ7

17/07/24

Feudal system? 🏰 Completed it already 👍 pic.twitter.com/2hJSPmfwIa

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6 Principles of Teaching

Harris Academy Ockendon provides an exciting, personalised learning curriculum, which supports and challenges all our students.

Our expectations are deeply rooted in a belief that all students can succeed. To achieve this, learning is at the heart of everything we do. Our staff are experts and focus on how students can be challenged and supported to master the powerful knowledge they need to be the very best they can academically and to help them develop the skills and attributes required to thrive and have successful and happy lives.

We ensure that all teaching and support staff have access to the highest quality training programmes to provide the most innovative and cutting-edge learning opportunities for every student. 

Our teaching approach is based around the Six Principles of Teaching. It forms the basis for all CPD and accountability in the academy.

 

 

Principles of ‘better practice’

So that…

1. High expectations of Learning Behaviour

  • Routines and effective classroom management
  • Consistent application of behaviour policy
  • Promote active participation not compliance
  • Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
  • Minimal valuable lesson time is wasted dealing with low-level disruption
  • Students can think hard about their learning free from distraction
  • All students are engaged in thinking about key learning
  • Students understand the connection between effort and achievement

2. Quality of Instruction

  • Highly effective explanations
  • Clearly defined outcomes
  • New knowledge is founded upon old knowledge
  • Teachers model excellence and how to achieve it
  • So that students quickly grasp key ideas
  • Students have complete clarity around what they are learning and what success looks like
  • Students can learn new ideas by reference to ideas they already know
  • Students know what excellence looks like as well as how to achieve it

3. Subject Mastery

  • Exam specification expertise
  • Misconceptions are planned for and addressed
  • Comprehensive understanding of curriculum
  • Promote and uphold the highest standards of literacy
  • Students are successful in examinations
  • Students overcome common misconceptions
  • Teachers can confidently teach to the top
  • Students read, write and speak with fluency and accuracy

4. Making it Stick

  • Making connections between underlying concepts
  • Regular low stakes testing
  • Practise deliberately
  • Learning is interleaved
  • Students can make links across key subject skills
  • Students can embed learning into their long-term memory
  • Students can develop fluency and accuracy in key skills
  • Students revisit material in a way which promotes long term memory

5. Adaptive teaching

  • Support and scaffold in lesson for the less able
  • Pitch high every lesson
  • Adapts teaching as needs emerge
  • Developed understanding of Special Educational Needs in the classroom
  • Students can access the learning they are doing
  • Students are challenged to exceed expectation
  • All students make exceptional progress
  • All students with SEND make exceptional progress

6. Effective feedback

  • Timely feedback to maximise learning
  • Formative assessment is embedded throughout a lesson
  • Comments are specific, accurate and clear
  • Time to reflect and act upon feedback
  • Students can swiftly unlock further learning
  • Teachers know which topics to re-teach that were not grasped first time
  • Student actions are refocused or redirected to achieve a goal
  • Students are self-regulated learners