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15/10/25

Year 2 Hever Class have had a brilliant day at Hever Castle, their class namesake. The children loved visiting the childhood home of Anne Boleyn! 🏰👑There were grand rooms, portraits & suits of armour, and stories of Henry VIII which all brought the Tudors to life 🛡️📜

14/10/25

Year 3 Warwick Class are having a rock-solid day at the Horniman Museum 🏛️🚌 They've enjoyed a hands-on workshop, which brought our history topic to life: The Stone Age! 🪨🦴🔍

11/10/25

🪔🎨 We’re hosting a Diwali Art Exhibition on Fri 17th at Harris Primary Academy Beckenham Green! Bring in your beautiful Diwali-inspired art to display & celebrate together by Friday Morning. ✨📅

08/10/25

🏆 CHAMPIONS! Our Y5 & Y6 netball team won the Red Cluster competition at    vs Beckenham, Orpington & Shortlands! 🔴💪 Amazing teamwork, slick passing & brilliant defending from everyone 🙌So proud of you all!

07/10/25

Brilliant effort from our Year 3 & 4 netballers at Harris Primary Beckenham! 🏐💙 Mixed 5-a-side vs Beckenham, Shortlands & Orpington — we finished 3rd! 🥉 So proud of the teamwork & sportsmanship. Thanks to our hosts  ! 👏

06/10/25

Year 1 Windsor went on a Geography adventure in Beckenham! 🌿🗺️Wildlife-spotting in Kelsey Park 🦆🌳 and exploring the bustling high street 🛍️—learning about plants, animals & our local environment. Proud of our curious explorers! 💚

06/10/25

This morning, Reception Leeds cooked with Kiddy Cook! Inspired by Goldilocks & the Three Bears, children mixed, measured & tasted to make their own “just right” porridge bowls. Storytelling + life skills = delicious learning! 😋👏

06/10/25

Year 6 Bodiam geographers swapped urban Beckenham for rural Eynsford today! Map skills 🗺️, landmark spotting 📍, the River Darent 🏞️, and historic bridges 🌉 made geography come alive!

02/10/25

What a day at HPABG! 🌳 Reception were introduced to Forest School, then celebrated  with joyful dancing 💃🏾🕺🏿and rounded it off with calming yoga 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️ — minds and bodies refreshed! ✨

02/10/25

Celebrating  with a vibrant Caribbean & African Dance Workshop in Reception Leeds Class! 🌍💃🏾🕺🏾🎶 Culture, community, and lots of joy! 🪘✨

02/10/25

Today’s lunch was extra special — a pupil-designed menu! 🧑‍🍳✨ Our School Council polled every class 🗳️ and the winner was… chicken burgers! 🐔🍔🎉 A massive thank you to our brilliant pupils and to Chef Dee!

01/10/25

Year 4 Pevensey had a brilliant day at the British Museum! 🏛️🇬🇷 Exploring Ancient Greece to deepen our History learning — from democracy ⚖️ and drama 🎭 to maths 📐 and myths 🏺, we can still see their legacy today. 📚✨

30/09/25

Year 5 Bamburgh blasted off at the Science Museum today! 🚀🧑‍🚀 From planets to orbits, our Earth & Space learning came to life. 🌍🪐🔭 So much curiosity, so many wow moments  ! ✨

26/09/25

🎉🏆 Huge congratulations to some of our amazing Year 3 Warwick class for shining at the 2025 ‘Chinese Bridge’ Mandarin Competition! 🇨🇳✨ Their performance wowed the judges and earned them a well-deserved award! 👏🌟

24/09/25

What an afternoon at Harris Primary Academy Beckenham Green! 🌟 Author Penny Chrimes wowed us with a gripping assembly 🎤✨ about her new book Hero: The Highway Girl. Then she held an exclusive playground book sale, which had our avid readers buzzing with joy! 📚

17/09/25

🏑 Hockey Enrichment Morning at Harris Primary Academy Beckenham Green! Big thanks to coach Sam Dhjavit for fast, fun drills—close control, passing, shooting & defence. Teamwork and confidence soaring in Years 5 & 6! 👏

15/09/25

🐞📚 Ladybird Nursery Buddy Reading is back for the new academic year! 🌟 Children with lovely reading records visited our friends at Ladybird for some cosy story time. Proud of our super readers! 💚 Ladybird is such an amazing nursery! 🐞📚

12/09/25

🎉 Y1 Windsor & Y2 Hever enjoyed a special online event with award-winning author Alex Falase-Koya today! 📚✨He was talking about his Marv series and leading fun activities including a quiz! 🦸‍♂️🧠 Thank You to Beckenham Library for this exciting opportunity! 🙌

09/09/25

Today Mrs Weedon met our brand-new School Council 🌟🗳️ Task 1 has a wellbeing focus: pupils are creating a special school dinner menu 🍽️ to be served on Thursday 2nd October! 🗓️🥗🍝🍎 Can’t wait to try it 😋

04/09/25

🎉 This afternoon we enjoyed a special Celebration Assembly applauding children who did amazing learning over the summer 🌞📚. A sea of RWI and maths certificates filled the hall 🏅📝➕➗—so proud of our superstar learners! 🌟👏

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Sports Premium

The Sports grant, or Sports Premium, is specific DFE funding to schools in order to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport on offer.

Sports Premium can be used to:

  • develop or add to the PE and sports activities alreadt offered;
  • make improvements now that will benefit pupils joining the school in future years.

Examples for use of the Sports Premium include:

  • hire qualified sports coaches to work with teachers
  • provide existing staff with training or resources to help them teach PE and sport more effectively
  • introduce new sports or activities and encourage more pupils to take up sport
  • support and involve the least active children by running or extending school sports clubs, holiday clubs and Change4Life clubs
  • run sport competitions
  • increase pupils’ participation in the School Games
  • run sports activities with other schools

 

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