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28/03/24

HARRIS ACADEMY PECKHAM INSIGHT MAGAZINE SPRING 2024" https://t.co/dB8xCIY9Al

28/03/24

Butterfly house pic.twitter.com/UZEPJq66iL

28/03/24

Students had a fantastic time exploring and learning pic.twitter.com/OfrMeiKmMV

27/03/24

The HAP community are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Richard Taylor remember his visits to the Academy fondly and send heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. https://t.co/i97YdX2e49

22/03/24

Congratulations to Rylee who won the Junior Police Cadet of the Borough Award. pic.twitter.com/L1XKEuz5lE

21/03/24

Year 7 students really enjoyed this reward trip to local Review Bookshop, choosing their amazing free World Book Day books. What a great selection -which one to read first? pic.twitter.com/QgL3cY0YNr

15/03/24

Highlights of British Science week: making slime and bouncy balls and riding go karts pic.twitter.com/jJMjUsErIu

15/03/24

Year 10 students visit pic.twitter.com/lh4I7jEzha

13/03/24

Fantastic orchestral Together day yesterday for some of our year 7 and 8 students hosting students from you ! pic.twitter.com/yh5PTqcNMn

13/03/24

Thank you for a lovely Science Week assembly pic.twitter.com/B76ShOy7aZ

13/03/24

Thank you for a lovely Science Week assembly pic.twitter.com/B76ShOy7aZ

13/03/24

KS2 Science Week assembly pic.twitter.com/KehXrEbCZe

13/03/24

KS2 Science Week assembly pic.twitter.com/KehXrEbCZe

13/03/24

World Book Day Celebrations: Students from Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park joined us for a library treasure hunt. Supported by our skilful student librarians they solved riddles and answered literature questions to find their next clues. Well done! pic.twitter.com/4ChegQ6lQn

13/03/24

On World book day Kenny Imafidon gave an inspiring presentation of his memoir “That Peckham boy”. In conversation with book blogger John-Paul Kunrunmi he encouraged students to be proactive about their future and to have the confidence to shape their own stories. pic.twitter.com/MA76S4tivB

12/03/24

(29) We have worked with many schools across London but our links with Harris Academies is very strong Lord Harris funded a great youth club supporting the community https://t.co/pMHGl5oxCs#LegacyOfHope pic.twitter.com/8rzcuZ4vHZ

12/03/24

(29) We have worked with many schools across London but our links with Harris Academies is very strong Lord Harris funded a great youth club supporting the community https://t.co/pMHGl5oxCs#LegacyOfHope pic.twitter.com/8rzcuZ4vHZ

11/03/24

HAP World Book Day pic.twitter.com/ZyYrzlTo8V

11/03/24

Fantasy and Science Fiction was the theme for World Book Day at HAP! pic.twitter.com/ouDA3LRtin

08/03/24

If you're an undergraduate or recent graduate from an under-represented background with a home address in Southwark and aged 18-24, SouthWRK is here to help you. Find out more and let your potential shine https://t.co/I3friBJR5N pic.twitter.com/2A267lpEqg

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Music

The vision of the Music Department is to ensure that every student has the opportunity to express and empower themselves through a vibrant, extensive, and inspiring music curriculum that explores our rich musical tradition.

The curriculum is designed to challenge students to become both creative and theoretical critical thinkers, and each unit shows progression to ensure knowledge obtained is embedded and developed.

In order to communicate as musicians, and ultimately access the GCSE Music Appraising exam, disciplinary literacy is at the heart of all of our lessons. The key concepts of the ‘musical elements’ are embedded throughout the entire curriculum. Scaffolding and bespoke support is provided to ensure our SEND students can recall and retain the often complex language of music.

IMG 032Our home learning policy also supports the learning and application of musical language. We use a wide variety of music to teach the different music elements and support our students to be global citizens through exposure to a wide repertoire.

In order to build confidence and perseverance, all students in Years 7-9 are given the opportunity to learn a musical instrument (through our partnership with MiSST) and are provided with numerous and varying performance platforms.

Students are supported to develop mastery knowledge of their instrument through High Quality teaching and intervention support. Our SEND students typically make exceptional progress with their instrument learning and additional resources and intervention is put in place for any student that needs additional support with a particular aspect of instrumental playing.

Bespoke interventions are in place for students with EAL and SEND needs. Translations of Powerpoint slides, translated glossaries of subject-specific vocabulary and subtitled Powerpoints in lessons are provided for students with English as an Additional Language in order to help scaffold and support their learning.

Interventions for SEND students are developed for each individual learner depending on their needs. Teachers within the Department have worked with the Academy Speech and Language Therapist to pre-teach key words and concepts to help learners more access points to subject-specific language and glossaries of key concepts and terms are provided to help scaffold learning. For students that struggle to access traditional Western notation while playing instruments, the Figurenotes method of notation – which uses colour and shape - has been used successfully for students learning both violin and piano.

IMG 036To complement the curriculum, we offer a large variety of enrichment opportunities and outreach activities with our professional partners. We have one musical LEAP Day per year group for Years 7-9 where all students in a year group come together to rehearse and perform a piece as an orchestra. This ensures all students are able to experience the aspiration and perseverance needed to perform in a large ensemble.

We also have an Academy Orchestra, Chamber Choir, Academy Choir, Steel Pan Band, Jazz Band and String, woodwind, brass, guitar and percussion ensembles that rehearse each week and perform at Academy events and events in the community. We do offer additional instrumental lesson for students that would benefit from this additional provision.  Access to instrumental lessons is free and students are selected to receive lessons for a number of reasons including demonstrating a particular aptitude for music, SEND needs that could be supported with music intervention or and positive intervention for students that may need this.

The ultimate aim of the music curriculum is to create well-rounded, confident and aspirational students. We aim to create lifelong learners and the curriculum and enrichment opportunities supports students to understand the creative and theoretical benefits of studying music. We support students that are showing a deep level of aptitude for music to apply for junior conservatoires and seek additional opportunities for them with our partner organisations. Many students continue their musical studies beyond GCSE level, and we support their preparation for further study at colleges and sixth form centres. 

Taught well, music education changes lives.”


Further details of the curriculum can be downloaded below.

Documents

Music Curriculum Overview 21st Nov 2023 Download