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10/09/25

Remember to sign up via our website for one of our open events so we can show you what Harris Clapham has to offer. ⭐️Open Evening: Wed 8th Oct: 4pm - 6pm ⭐️Open Mornings: Tues 7th, Wed 8th and Thurs 9th Oct: 9:15am - 10am harrisclapham.org.uk/38/anno…  

05/09/25

What a fantastic first week back! It has been great to see students settling in, reconnecting, and diving into learning with energy and enthusiasm   

04/09/25

We are so excited to welcome prospective students and parents to our academy! Our banner is up and we can’t wait to show you what we have to offer. Open Evening: Wed 8th Oct: 4pm - 6pm Open Mornings: Tues 7th, Wed 8th and Thurs 9th Oct: 9:15am to 10am.  

03/09/25

The corridors are buzzing again — it is so good to have all our students back after the summer break. We're excited for the year ahead!   

02/09/25

What a fantastic first day with our new Year 7s – we’re so proud of how they’ve settled in and are looking forward to welcoming the rest of the school back tomorrow   

13/07/22

Brilliant to have our own police cadet unit on site! Our first intake of recruits are into week 12 of their training. Next intake in September!     

07/07/22

Fantastic trip to China Town for a meal (and to practise our language skills!) and then to the British Museum!   

04/07/22

Our Year 8 boys are south region Federation champions!

30/06/22

Official opening today! Very special event with superb speeches from our students in all three of the languages that they study! 

27/05/22

Great excitement as we set off for  this morning and an added bonus that we got to use the brand new  !

25/05/22

What a show!  our students had an amazing time!

25/05/22

Our students as language teachers! Thank you  for welcoming us and for allowing us to share our knowledge and enjoyment of learning Spanish and Chinese with you!   

25/05/22

Thank you to  for a very informative session with our students on road safety awareness. 

17/05/22

Our amazing students started their work with  two weeks ago and we are already in the top 100 schools!

13/05/22

Ten Clapham Credits cashed in for ice-cream today! 

13/05/22

Thank you  for a spectacular show this week - thoroughly enjoyed by staff and students alike! 

31/03/22

Huge congratulations to all our finalists and our first-ever winner of Clapham's Got Talent. You were all amazing and we thoroughly enjoyed admiring your skills and talents!

25/03/22

Great to see so many of our students taking up the offer of learning to play a musical instrument. Well done for modelling The Clapham Commitment and being both curious and tenacious! 

18/03/22

Very enriching Globe Theatre visit and workshop for our students this week to support them in their study of The Merchant of Venice.

18/03/22

Speaker building and gnocchi making in design technology for Year 8 today!

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Art

The Art curriculum at Harris Academy Clapham is designed to build young people's deep knowledge and skills through exploring artists, designers and craftspeople from a diverse range of periods, cultures and experiences.

The curriculum allows students to endeavour to excellence, through sequential building of skills in observation and recording, as well as processes and techniques.  The projects we run allow students to work in a variety of media, including drawing and painting skills, mixed media, print-making and clay.

At Harris Academy Clapham, we promote students’ self-belief but also their understanding of the world around them. This is encapsulated in our value ‘Self Belief with a Global View’.  We ensure that our students consider the historical, social, political and cultural contexts of artwork and practices. We encourage students to explore their ideas around culture, identity, equality and respect when developing their own personal responses to exploring and creating,

The Art and design curriculum is designed to build from the National Curriculum into more personalised projects building on the strong foundation of knowledge and skills they have acquired, towards more independently led practice as they develop into KS4, through teacher-guided portfolio projects. As skills and their competencies grow, students will be prepared for the exam board’s Externally Set Assignment in the latter half of Year 11 and are well equipped with the skills and knowledge to be successful in the visual arts at Key Stage 5.

Please see below to read our progression map for Art in Year 7-11.

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