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26/04/25

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26/04/25

Groups are all out walking - day 2! pic.twitter.com/9ftPoXIiFY

25/04/25

S’mores and getting ready for bed pic.twitter.com/QLi3LOcdA1

25/04/25

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25/04/25

All groups back at camp pic.twitter.com/sS5ECgZ2J9

25/04/25

Groups are steadily coming into camp pic.twitter.com/QVnFbyoHTe

25/04/25

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25/04/25

Duke of Edinburgh Bronze 2025 has started! pic.twitter.com/zqzlPluLQO

23/04/25

We are delighted to be taking part in the Beat the Streets programme. The game will be running from 23rd April - 21st May. More information will be given to students in form time. Good luck to everyone taking part! pic.twitter.com/jncXAxGpKT

03/04/25

Our prizes ready for the Easter raffle draw. Students will find out if they have won tomorrow morning at line up. Prizes are to be collected at the end of the day from the Network Area. pic.twitter.com/xCbJOQOHVS

28/03/25

⚽️🚨 PE ANNOUNCEMENT ⚽️🚨- year 7 boys football training on Monday 31st March is cancelled.

27/03/25

The National Reading Champions Quiz is an aspirational event that recognises and celebrates the book knowledge of more than 2,000 enthusiastic readers aged 10 to 14 each year. This year, 10 students participated, they all enjoyed the challenge. pic.twitter.com/2wjupmrwvY

25/03/25

All students who took part in the performance at did a wonderful job and made us all proud! pic.twitter.com/U89f5HDHUH

24/03/25

Some of our students taking part in show day at Thameside Theatre 🎭 pic.twitter.com/Vcn31OTS1r

20/03/25

Sports leaders taking part in capture the flag pic.twitter.com/N4uHUxCm4I

19/03/25

Well done to our year 9 girls for winning their Harris cup game 36-5 🔥 pic.twitter.com/bnbGqJ6nWc

13/03/25

Sports leaders taking part in foot tennis as one of their sessions ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/22mV3X8PVH

11/03/25

Well done to everyone involved in our football tournament today in celebration of International Women’s Day. It was amazing to see over 150 girls taking part ⚽️ 🏆 pic.twitter.com/0cwV3FATTO

07/03/25

World Book Day 2025 📕📖 pic.twitter.com/rCCLMg64aQ

06/03/25

Our guest author delivering assembly for World Book Day 📕 pic.twitter.com/MCPmpz6Kcw

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Sixth Form Culture

Harris Academy Ockendon Sixth Form is a scholarly and ambitious place to be. We believe in the culture we have created and with this know:

  1. We must stop the forgetting
  2. Sixth formers must be deliberately taught how to become independent learners
  3. We must support our students in preparing for ambitious destinations

How do we achieve this?

  1. High quality teaching and learning that focusses on retrieval practice and low stakes testing that takes place every lesson
  2. Deliberate tuition of revision skills through the assembly and tutor time programme
  3. High quality practitioners who have degrees within the subjects they are teaching. Expert teachers build expert students
  4. Revision skills are deliberately taught through the tutor time programme as well as in the delivery of assembly
  5. ‘Private Study’ is timetabled to every student for three periods a week to ensure students are given structured silent revision periods where Year 13 students will consolidate their knowledge across Year 1 content and Year 12 will practice the skills they have been learning in assembly to secure their knowledge across Year 1
  6. ’30-day-plans’ are created by teachers in the build up to form examinations whereby the sequencing of revision is explicitly considered by teachers so that students can revise a manageable chunk every day, with revision activities and recall of core knowledge every day.

How Do We Support Students In Time Management?

We believe that Sixth Form students should be becoming independent learners and we want to support students with the development of these scholarly skills. With this in mind a Sixth Former will have

  1. One period of enrichment per week
  2. Three private study periods per week
  3. Five lessons per subject per week
  4. One assembly starting at 8:20am per week
  5. Two tutor times starting at 8:20am per week
  6. Six periods of non-contact time per week
  7. The school day ends at 3:30pm in order to allow students optimal time to complete independent study within or outside of school