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15/02/25

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13/02/25

Successful end of term art project for year six: children planned, designed and built these amazing Memories Boxes linked to our Oval history topic and our belonging driver.

12/02/25

Year six loved their visit from Steel today and asked some brilliant questions!#pshe

12/02/25

We loved our visit from Steel today, learning all about resilience and the importance of sleep, healthy diet, being active, hydration and showing gratitude (noticing glimmers). Can anyone beat Steel’s record of 757 burpees nonstop in under an hour?#pshe

12/02/25

As part of Safer Internet Day, year 2 explored a variety of dangers online and discussed how to respond to them. They had some excellent ideas and good knowledge of the safety features of various apps. They created posters to teach younger children about what they had learnt.

12/02/25

Amazing messages being given to the children this morning by the amazing gladiator Steel! What a fantastic morning we have ahead

11/02/25

Year six scientists dissecting hearts to understand how the circulatory system works.

11/02/25

Year six scientists dissecting hearts to understand how the circulatory system works.

11/02/25

Year six home learning designing posters for around school about how to keep safe online.

11/02/25

Year six historians exploring the Oval as part of their local history project, with an added extra of a tag rugby PE lesson!

11/02/25

Year six historians exploring the Oval as part of their local history project, with an added extra of a tag rugby PE lesson!

11/02/25

Team Dahl had a great science lesson on space and the stars with Mark the scientist yesterday (2).#science

11/02/25

Team Dahl had a great science lesson on space and the stars with Mark the scientist yesterday (1).#science

11/02/25

Marking Safer Internet Day with a visit from the charity Computer Friendly

10/02/25

Year 3 had a visit from Hands on Science and took part in a workshop on biological diversity.

07/02/25

This week in assembly we celebrated Martin Luther King day, reading about this inspiring activist who devoted his life to fighting for civil rights. We linked to other activists such as Nelson Mandela, Greta Thunberg, Malala and Rosa Parks; and to our value of respect.

07/02/25

A huge thank you to all the adults who came to visit us today to explain how their job uses maths.

07/02/25

Ladybirds have had a fantastic ! We have loved hearing about jobs that use numbers and dressing up! We are so inspired. We also made foot rulers to measure things in the classroom.

07/02/25

Our fourth visitor of the day was Tendaii, a train and air engineer. Our Y6’s were fascinated by his models and recognised how scale factors work in producing drafts of projects.

07/02/25

Our third visitor of the day was Matt who works in the sports field. He explained to our Y6’s how fractions, decimals and percentages play a part in making predictions about different sporting events.

07/02/25

Our second visitor of the day was Business Analyst Andreii who spoke to our Y6’s about how algebra and coding is used in his IT role. pic.twitter.com/g7qgZWX25k

07/02/25

Our first visitor of the day was Nurse Helen who works at treating cancer patients. Our Y6’s enjoyed learning about why measuring is particularly crucial in this field. pic.twitter.com/IG2nvg7xEC

07/02/25

Happy Number Day from Year 3! pic.twitter.com/bS3fxp7e8P

06/02/25

Aren’t we lucky to have such lovely, kind parents in our Year 1 class? We are so appreciative of these yummy sweet treats! pic.twitter.com/IEp8f6rkyO

04/02/25

Lunar new year celebrations last week pic.twitter.com/GAQmtKUjeU

Shakespeare Year 6 Class

Welcome to Shakespeare class, Year 6 class at Harpenden Academy. We have an exciting and challenging year ahead, with the aim of having the children confident, ready and raring to go to secondary school in a year's time as well as ensuring SATs are as fruitful as possible. It will be a year of significant academic, emotional and social growth and we are really looking forward to embarking on this journey with the children.

Developing children's growth mindsets, resilience and positive mental health strategies will be a key focus for the year and as these skills grow, the children will undoubtedly flourish even further and be even better prepared for their transition next September.

Mornings will be filled with engaging Maths and English learning, linked to our topic wherever possible and made as meaningful as possible through real life links. Afternoons will be spent on our creative curriculum, again linking our learning to our topic.

Mrs Watson and Mrs Curnow

Mrs Watson

Class Teacher 

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Mrs Curnow

Class Teacher

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Mrs Duncan
Teaching Assistant

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Mr Marshall-Ocana

Teaching Assistant 1:1

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Autumn Term Planning

Spring Term Planning

Summer Term Planning

Year 6 Curriculum Meeting PPT Jan 2026

Year 6 Curriculum Meeting PPT Sept 2025