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17/01/25

Ladybirds had a fantastic visit to Little City this week. We were able to role play as lots of jobs within our community. We had hairdressers, builders, shop assistants and police officers. It was a very busy morning! pic.twitter.com/922Y0b79Wb

17/01/25

Ladybirds have been exploring emergency services and using junk modelling to create our own emergency vehicles. We have added lights, wheels and even repeating patterns to bring them to life! pic.twitter.com/4llUwySboG

13/01/25

Year 3 scientists exploring pushes and pulls as part of our new forces unit. pic.twitter.com/tLuyiqQ9Es

18/12/24

Whole school cinema trip to the gorgeous Odyssey theatre in St Albans to see Santa Claus. pic.twitter.com/Mt6bc9t78r

18/12/24

Year six designers have completed their DT project using complex switches and circuits to create buggies. pic.twitter.com/NzaIFfytqD

13/12/24

Team Dahl had a very successful PE dance lesson today as the children performed (only their 2nd full attempt) a dance routine to ‘Proud’ by Heather Small! pic.twitter.com/AfGeQWQQiS

11/12/24

Ladybirds have been learning about the Christmas Story in R.E. Today we drew our favourite characters in the story using Freeform on the iPad. We were so focused on our learning and loved learning new skills. pic.twitter.com/2QV0BzjeGX

10/12/24

Year 3 had their final swimming lesson for this term today. # healthylifestyle pic.twitter.com/wHwLW5WNVb

09/12/24

Year six dancers creating routines to depict prejudice and discrimination- varying height, speed, flow and apparatus to show power over. pic.twitter.com/c9bmJCstlf

09/12/24

Year six Christingle army! pic.twitter.com/3kXaBBzBmP

09/12/24

Year six designers building their buggies pic.twitter.com/ppEUtDYwr4

09/12/24

Year six designers building their buggies… pic.twitter.com/mREyGctEoA

04/12/24

It’s feeling very festive in school with our wonderful winter festival display and first ever tree on the roof! pic.twitter.com/EHOr4QFsWS

04/12/24

A celebration of winter festivals to greet our children and parents…#experiences pic.twitter.com/bp4cRT731l

04/12/24

Ladybirds have been making challah bread linked to our learning about Hanukkah this week. We learned so many new skills such as kneading and plaiting! pic.twitter.com/f7TUuV1FWh

02/12/24

Last week’s beautiful cross country sunset run pic.twitter.com/YItuPE8qOz

02/12/24

Year six writers are loving our new unit: persuasive speeches. We have been exploring a range of famous speeches from the Talking History book and using our reading fluency skills to perform them passionately. pic.twitter.com/kgnuDl1gqH

02/12/24

Year six working hard on their flexibility Challenges as part of their health-related fitness unit. They enjoyed considering what sports would require each type of flexibility. pic.twitter.com/8GJuiCC8Fa

28/11/24

Team Dahl was lucky enough to be visited by Jump today who’ve come in to teach one of our RE lessons on the Christmas Story!#RE pic.twitter.com/UwwrmWz8me

20/11/24

Year six athletes enjoying a visit from a local boxing club linked to their health-related fitness unit. pic.twitter.com/PGjSXy8rLE

20/11/24

Year six athletes enjoying a visit from a local boxing club linked to their health-related fitness unit. pic.twitter.com/H9dVnwUXhm

20/11/24

Why not read a book celebrating disability and linked to our current PSHE topic: Celebrating Difference. pic.twitter.com/SRYm6HipoA

20/11/24

Amazing resilience and commitment from those cross country runners who turned up to run in the snowy conditions yesterday! What a beautiful and invigorating start to the day. pic.twitter.com/tkvYRSU9kk

20/11/24

Year six athletes are really enjoying their health-related fitness unit and all challenged themselves to do the blue challenge at each cardio station today. pic.twitter.com/kPUDUWUPnQ

20/11/24

Year six athletes are really enjoying their health-related fitness unit and all challenged themselves to do the blue challenge at each cardio station today. pic.twitter.com/JDZotjfJXt

Reception Admissions 2025

Welcome to Harpenden Academy

Harpenden Academy is a single form entry school with education, inclusivity and nurture at its core. We pride ourselves on being a school which educates “hearts and minds” but also that our dedicated team of teachers, teaching assistants, office staff and wrap around care staff always go the extra mile for our children and families. We are a small school, foster on values dear to us- we believe you will feel there is a place for you here at our school.

There's nothing like first hand experience to give you the insight you need when choosing your child's school. At Harpenden Academy we are holding tours during the Autumn term to give prospective parents the opportunity to visit the school and see us in action.

We are pleased to confirm that we have published the dates for the school tours for any new Reception parents with children starting school in September 2025. Each tour will take an hour. To offer parents a personal tour we limit our tours to 12 people max. 

You will have the opportunity to see the classes and the event will be hosted by our Headteacher, Mrs Davies and our EYFS Teacher, Mrs Withers.

Please click here to book your place on one of our school tours

Headteacher Introduction Presentation to Harpenden Academy

Dates
Monday, 11th November 2024, 9.15am-10.15am
Wednesday, 13th November 2024, 1.45pm-2.45pm
Monday, 18th November 2024,  9.15am-10.15am
Wednesday, 20th November 2024, 1.45am-2.45pm
Wednesday, 27th November 2024, 1.45pm-2.45pm
Monday, 2nd Decemmber 2024, 9.15am-10.15am
Wednesday 4th December 2024, 1.45pm-2.45pm
Monday, 9th December 2024, 9.15am-10.15am
Wednesday, 11th December 2024, 1.45pm-2.45pm
Wednesday, 8th January 2025, 9.15am-10.15am
Monday, 13th January 2025, 1.45pm-2.45pm

At Harpenden Academy we have:

  • A dedicated team of experienced teachers who go above and beyond to create outstanding learning opportunities.
  • Well-constructed learning opportunities through interactive experiences, and school trips and residentials making learning memorable and fun!
  • A curriculum that is varied, exciting and creative which is underpinned by rigour and academic results. It allows children to be fully absorbed into their learning and make links between subjects, topics and themes.
  • We nurture and care for our children very well and have designed a curriculum with drivers to stretch our children's abilities but to also support them in specific areas.
  • Families from many parts of the world, speaking many languages, with a diversity of cultural, religious, historical and geographical experience. We aim to ensure that our curriculum draws on all this richness.
  • A greater the variety of activities children experience, the better they do in all subjects across the curriculum. A child who is encouraged to develop confidence and self-expression will clearly be one who is better equipped to learn generally. We believe in educating the whole child.
  • Varied extra-curricular activities covering a multitude of sports, dance, languages and musical instruments.
  • A full sporting involvement including football, netball, cross county, athletics and rounders.
  • Full wrap around care which opens at 7.15am to 6.15pm (Monday to Thursday) and 7.15am- 5.15pm Fridays only. These times plus the very close proximity to the train station makes it ideal for many working parents.
  • A strong and proactive parent body called Friends of Harpenden Academy- FoHA- who support the school and all its endeavours massively.

From September 2011 all primary schools must offer children a full-time place at the start of the September term. However, legally children do not have to be in full-time education until the term after their 5th birthday.  Delaying your child’s entry into school is called ‘deferred entry’. You can request this, but your child must start before the end of the school year during which they turn 5.  The expectation is all those starting in September will attend full days but if you are a parent of a summer born child and have concerns over full school days please talk to us.

We hope to welcome you to our school soon. 

 

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