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28/03/24

Niino was on our academy programme at and became our 45th signing to a professional club when he joined Millwall FC in January 2021 ✍️ https://t.co/ksVZdW1904#KineticAcademy

28/03/24

What a wonderful day at the Latin Spelling bee 2024 . Well done to for the best performing student and to for the best performing school. Thanks pic.twitter.com/fRZ1OkXAnC

25/03/24

Our staff quiz night and auction was extremely successful and we have now reached the 4K mark!! Can you help us to reach our target? https://t.co/9gXJe98gDr

25/03/24

Fellow Kinetic graduate, Jack Hilaire, also made his league debut in the game. Both signed for UWA Nedlands back in January ✍️Sam & Jack were a part of our academy programme at 💪 https://t.co/qCmkw9Gnwi#KineticAcademy

23/03/24

Please give generously where you can Supporting headteacher Emily Smith’s London marathon attempt https://t.co/b1AJVbqfmj

22/03/24

It’s HATO Quiz night tonight for our fundraising https://t.co/9gXJe98gDr pic.twitter.com/Se67siaw5l

21/03/24

Incredible students, art work and drumming to boot! 🙏 https://t.co/WjPY77UlIq

20/03/24

Fantastic day at for the first conference of my NPQ.Expert facilitation, brilliant discussions, and seeing the evidence brought to life in classrooms. Excited for the professional learning ahead!

20/03/24

We are hosting the NPQEL cohort 4 today at Harris Tottenham.30 executive leaders & headteachers from across the UK pic.twitter.com/X5VX8B3Ani

19/03/24

Can you give a few pounds to support Tottenham childrenhttps://t.co/9gXJe98gDr

19/03/24

Please donate to our charity for Tottenham childrenhttps://t.co/9gXJe98gDr

19/03/24

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19/03/24

It’s TRACKSUIT & TRAINER Tuesday here today in support of Miss Smith’s fundraising for our academy You can donate here https://t.co/9gXJe98gDr pic.twitter.com/ZtVKu2DStF

19/03/24

Today is Tracksuit & Trainer Tuesday to raise awareness for our primary headteacher’s run 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ 🏃 We will be posting trainers colourful & drab like Mr Soar’s own here Support Ms Smith by donating to her charitable causes here https://t.co/nbX2b4dSFD pic.twitter.com/hGoY3cZ5rW

17/03/24

If you're in the area at lunchtime, why not head on over to the Stanley Culcross Open Space (near Belmont Road/West Green Road) & help celebrate the opening of a brand, new playpark there?This event is being organised by the Friends of Stanley Open Spaces with our support. pic.twitter.com/71gSyl5qkN

11/03/24

London Marathon 2024 - Emily Smith, Head of Primary at Harris Academy To... https://t.co/AKxjocjK84 via

11/03/24

Our pupils will be very excited that the amazing sends her seal of approval for Planet Omar themed dress up! https://t.co/PgyKfBMRD2

11/03/24

Wow!! Huge congratulations to the team 👏🏼 We look forward to being part of this exciting journey! https://t.co/PqYKUo0beZ

10/03/24

Got a spare £1 or £5 for charity?Emily Smith the Headteacher of a Tottenham Primary School is running the London marathon. Go on...please help her cause with a metaphoric 'good luck' and a charitable uplift. We appreciate it. https://t.co/wgf7rEGo7o

08/03/24

Thank you to everyone who swapped books at our book swap after school! We will be back out Monday for final swaps! pic.twitter.com/g4VTSt51Xu

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English & Literacy

Learning to read is the most important thing your child will learn at school. Everything else depends on it; so we put as much energy as we possibly can into making sure that every single child learns to read as quickly as possible.

We want your child to love reading – and to want to read for themselves. This is why we put our efforts into making sure they develop a love of books as well as simply learning to read. See suggested reading lists for each year group at the bottom of this page.


Harris_Tottenham_Primary_Image_06Read Write Inc - Our approach to phonics

We start by teaching phonics in Reception and believe that this should be taught in an exciting and engaging way. We follow the Read Write Inc. Programme to support us with the planning and delivery of the teaching of reading and writing, enabling all children to develop the skills to be able to read quickly and easily. It follows a programme of teaching specific sounds and reading them in words. As children progress, they learn more complex sounds and read and spell trickier words.

Throughout the year, we will run specific Read Write Inc. workshops for parents to help adults at home to understand the approaches we use to teach early reading and writing skills. This will support pupil’s to make accelerated progress in this area. An introductory video link is available here for more information.

All of the children who are working on the RWI programme, will bring home a RWI book each week, as well as a book bag book. These books cover all of the sounds that the children have been taught which helps them to be successful in their reading. We also encourage children to bring home a book for enjoyment, which is one of our recommended reads for their age group. This is a book of their choice.


What is the phonics screening check?

In Year 1, all children are required to take the Government statutory phonics screening check which is a short assessment of children’s ability to read both real words and pseudo words. Children that do not pass the phonics screening check in Year 1 are then required to retake the test in Year 2.

For children who do not pass the check, a programme of personalised support will be put in place to support them throughout Year 2.


Reading

Once children have finished the RWI programme, they move onto our reading programme. Children take part in reading lessons that focus on vocabulary, comprehension and reading fluency. Children also have an Accelerated Reading lesson, where they take part in their weekly comprehension quiz and choose their new book for the week.

Children will bring home one Accelerated Reading book and are invited to bring home an additional book. This could be a recommended read for their age group or an additional Accelerated Reading book. Click here for more information about Accelerated Reader.


Comprehension

As reading is so important to our children’s learning and development, we ensure there is time focusing on this during our daily RWI and reading lessons. We have also incorporated a weekly comprehension lesson into our RWI and reading programmes to really encourage our children to develop their inference and understanding skills. In these lessons, we unpick and decode words and discuss what is happening in the text and predict what might happen next. We also discuss and learn the meaning of new words, helping us to increase our vocabulary. We then read questions linked to the text and use our inference skills to locate and find the answer.


Harris_Tottenham_Primary_Image_11Writing

Children are taught spelling, handwriting, writing for purpose and are encouraged to develop their creative writing skills. Some of this is delivered as part of the daily phonics sessions and also as part of the focused and independent learning activities.

We use a cursive handwriting script which teaches children the correct letter formations and also the different families of letter joins. Children across all year groups, from EYFS upwards, practise handwriting regularly.

Children are given opportunities to write for different purposes to really embed the importance of writing and give them the chance to develop their own skills. Writing is encouraged in a range of contexts in order to stimulate and engage our children.

Our writing lessons are always based around a specific book. Every week, we teach the children new vocabulary words, with the challenge of trying to use these words across the week. We teach different Alan Peat sentence types to support children’s sentence structure and to make their writing even more exciting. On Fridays, we celebrate our writing by taking part in our extended write lessons. This is where the children are asked to apply all their learning for the week and to independently write for a given purpose.


Reading Lists

Looking for ideas about what to read? Download our suggested reading lists for each year group below.