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10/07/25

A huge thank you for the generous donation of toiletries 💙 Your kindness will make a real difference to our families and is deeply appreciated by all of us at Harris Academy Peckham. pic.twitter.com/Lew815vjVE

10/07/25

Absolutely fantastic evening performing as part of the first ever Harris Federation Festival of Music last night. Our students loved every single minute of performing and what a great way to showcase them! pic.twitter.com/uKclVM81n1

10/07/25

what do you think of our Year 10 saxophonist 🎷? He has only been playing for 6 years! pic.twitter.com/5rtl4Qo87k

10/07/25

This is 🤩 Orchestras, Rappers, DJs, Steel Pans, Musical Theatre, Choirs, Jazz Ensembles, the list goes on! pic.twitter.com/wTwArFB4Qa

10/07/25

🏳️‍🌈 Huge congratulations to our amazing team for being runners-up in the Just Like Us Charity Pride Group Awards! 🏆 Your passion, dedication, and advocacy continue to inspire. Here's to building an even more inclusive future together! 🌟 pic.twitter.com/kilEHj7aK1

10/07/25

Spectacular performances at the Harris Federation Festival of Music. https://t.co/WVFuUYIJEJ

09/07/25

Thank you to all the families who attended our uniform pop up shop today. To our students, we can’t wait to see you in September. pic.twitter.com/vzychJioIa

09/07/25

Thank you so much! An Outstanding outcome for our entire community. https://t.co/5pc0Lu3tA6

08/07/25

Always a brilliant opportunity to perform with Multi-Story orchestra especially on a project that has such relevance to Peckham and its community pic.twitter.com/r9gzOPD91H

07/07/25

It was a pleasure to welcome our new Year 7 students last week for their transition day! 🌟 A fantastic start to their journey with us — we can’t wait to see all they’ll achieve. 💫#TransitionDay pic.twitter.com/oQVjkO9y4v

04/07/25

So beautiful 💐🤩! Congrats on another fabulous Songfest! We also feel very lucky to have you as part of our team 🎻 🎶!

04/07/25

Prom - Class of 2025! Our students didn’t just show up— they slayed. ✨ Glam, glitter, and red carpet energy all around. pic.twitter.com/TeTBvLnH0T

04/07/25

Look at our beautiful prom setting . Glam vibes, and just enough glitter to find your way home. Prom magic is real! pic.twitter.com/DHrtAZJJF7

04/07/25

It was a pleasure performing with you. We look forward to working together again soon. https://t.co/jQmCNNNGg8

04/07/25

Your passion, dedication, and talent brings so much joy to our community. We’re so lucky to have you! https://t.co/UE1zA67Dpg

04/07/25

Huge thanks to for your incredible support. https://t.co/jVxFqmv5pb

04/07/25

One year into the best job in the world 🩷 pic.twitter.com/pIZFuFeemt

03/07/25

A huge round of applause to our phenomenal Music team and the wonderful local primary schools who made Songfest truly unforgettable! Voices soared, spirits lifted, and community harmony was loud and proud. pic.twitter.com/jD50aS8Tou

03/07/25

Inspectors from rated the school ‘outstanding’ in all areas, praising the Academy’s “highly ambitious” curriculum and “expert” teaching staff, as well as the students’ “excellent” behaviour.#Peckham @Miatsfhttps://t.co/QQZOARKIpI pic.twitter.com/FxOawGmXrh

03/07/25

Inspectors from rated the school ‘outstanding’ in all areas, praising the Academy’s “highly ambitious” curriculum and “expert” teaching staff, as well as the students’ “excellent” behaviour.#Peckham @Miatsfhttps://t.co/1fNV8isdQK pic.twitter.com/wozA3sht53

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Religious Studies

Religious Studies at Harris Academy Peckham is focused around incorporating three disciplines to help students to be critical about the world around them:

  • Theology (thinking through belief)
  • Philosophy (thinking through ideas)
  • Social sciences (thinking through people).

Each of these disciplines is interweaved into our curriculum at Key Stage 3 and is built upon at Key Stage 4. By incorporating all three of these disciplines, we are honing our students to become critical thinkers and communicators as we grapple with deep and challenging questions about religion, philosophy, ethics, and humanity.

Students develop their abilities through the lens of writing and oracy skills to help analytically argue and justify their reasoning. Across our curriculum, students learn about the main religious tradition of the UK – Christianity. However, we also ensure students learn about all world faiths, their traditions, beliefs, and practices to help our students become global citizens and successful participants in the multicultural society we live in, here in Peckham but across the United Kingdom. This is also academically underpinned with reference to theological evidence, including case studies and scripture.

Students aspire to master philosophical argument through developing their capabilities to write a line of argument which is based on a solid premise which is explained through a knowledge-rich understanding of opposing views and justification of one’s own views.

Religion and ethical discussions are part of our everyday lives, and we will instil into our students the ability to become lifelong learners where students are exposed to several worldviews and diverse voices within discourse of religion, philosophy, ethics, and the social sciences. This will also be underpinned by engagement with the SMSC and RSHE within the context of Peckham and the wider world.

Our curriculum is one that is research-informed, through design and practice, which stems from a variety of sources and narratives that exposes our students to the diversity of views on contentious and debatable topics with society. We ensure that all students, including students with SEND and those from disadvantaged backgrounds are supported to achieve within our curriculum and not be locked out of important discourse that will affect their lives in the future.
Pupils should also build an awareness of their own presuppositions and values about the religious and non-religious traditions they study.

This idea will be met by the following aims:

  • Students to reflect on content from their personal position which has been shaped by their individual experiences, values and sense of identity.
  • Pupils to learn that this personal knowledge means they bring assumptions to learning about religious and non-religious traditions.
  • Pupils to build personal knowledge through learning about rich substantive content which links the ‘life worlds’ of the religious and non-religious traditions and that of the pupils.

It is a central commitment of the Harris Federation Religious Education Intent, that worldviews that we teach about are accurately represented, avoid the single-story narrative, and include plurality of voice so that we may avoid oversimplistic understanding of religious and non-religious worldviews. To support this commitment, the toolkit includes a column on ‘subject teacher knowledge guidance and suggestions, which identify key areas that lend themselves to reframing and departmental engagement with current research. Links or a commentary are provided to help support such approaches.


Further details of the curriculum can be downloaded below.

Documents

RS Curriculum Overview 02nd Sep 2024 Download