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13/06/25

🎉 It’s just the HABE way! Today we hit our highest daily attendance ever with 4 year groups above 97% and Year 11s leading at over 99%! 👏 Top 10 tutor groups celebrated with early dismissal. Students love being here—because at HABE, school is where we thrive. pic.twitter.com/NwYqRBWgum

13/06/25

Beautiful Day for Shirt signing at HABE- celebrating our Yr11 students pic.twitter.com/XpNpMYz0Y9

13/06/25

Class of 2025 pic.twitter.com/1a0v0hEP5o

13/06/25

Exciting news - Bookings for Open Mornings are now available! Book here:https://t.co/p6nm61sdP6 pic.twitter.com/KSiALBymDX

13/06/25

A great day out for our Year 12s at the UCAS and Apprenticeship Fair today! 🧑‍🎓 pic.twitter.com/q8Mb5V98FM

12/06/25

The classics are the best! Year 7 do the Macarena with Mr Stokes showing them how it's done! pic.twitter.com/nlTQtbm0cT

12/06/25

Thanks so much to the Friends at Beckenham PTA for a brilliant year 7 disco! pic.twitter.com/5GmIHX5M4O

12/06/25

Our brilliant Year 12s were loving learning about the phosphorus cycle with Miss McCormack today! Dual coding at its best! 🌿 pic.twitter.com/sbIEa4cF9W

12/06/25

Making memories with friends pic.twitter.com/dzpfAOV0Qt

12/06/25

Too cool for Paris! pic.twitter.com/R6jXtRD85i

12/06/25

Enjoying the French Culture and Architecture pic.twitter.com/tT0EeO5do2

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Paris 25 pic.twitter.com/vKX78tWsTh

12/06/25

Highlights from Paris 2025 pic.twitter.com/5aqnTphoWV

12/06/25

Our next Performing Arts event is our HABE Shakespeare Showcase on Thursday 3rd July 2025 at 5.30pm. Come and support our students incredible work. Tickets are available now to purchase on ParentPay. pic.twitter.com/E2PEfj3QgT

11/06/25

Paris Trip- ETA is 8.30pm, as on our itinerary - we will keep you posted. pic.twitter.com/jmTnyTCvyc

10/06/25

Final tickets are still available for the best night of the year - the year 7 Summer Disco! Please see Mr Shone for more information pic.twitter.com/JKLNKthW6t

09/06/25

Tutor Time Programme for this term - "My Safety" pic.twitter.com/6SzFGoodpk

09/06/25

Year 7 students enjoying their MBOT club with Miss Lauder - fab work everyone! pic.twitter.com/6Bjtv7Qgb8

05/06/25

To listen, please sign via -https://t.co/Up0q6QTV7m pic.twitter.com/X9TiIUQmzR

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Design Technology

Curriculum intent

At Harris Academy Beckenham we want to create a diverse curriculum which is intrinsically linked to and fully embodies our learning ethos: Resilience, Resourcefulness, Reflectiveness and Resilience.

Our intention is to inspire our students with a love for all things D&T to allow them to become confident individuals with inquisitive minds who will have the courage, skills and knowledge to thrive in the 21st century. 

From a very young age children teach themselves how to draw, paint, build or fix things when they are broken without being shown or taught these skills. Through the delivery of our Design Technology curriculum students are better prepared to deal with tomorrow’s ever changing world.

D&T encourages children to become independent, creative problem-solvers and thinkers as individuals and as part of a team - making positive changes to their quality of life. It enables them to identify needs and opportunities and to respond to them by developing a range of ideas and by making products and systems.

We wish to instil a curiosity within our students which means they will ask questions and seek answers when creating new ideas, acquiring new skills and draw on disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art. We challenge students with engaging design briefs and instil a sense of curiosity within the students by enabling them to create work of their own inspired by well know designers, architects or engineers such as Philippe Starck, Charlotte Perriand, Zaha Hadid to name a few.

Finally, developing our students’ sense of appreciation for the design/creative industry supports them in finding their own identity as young designers, enabling them to develop a greater sense of self- awareness and affirming their own ideologies or perception of what design really is. Design and technology offer children a chance to use creative thinking and activity within a defined purpose and tangible outcome. It can be found in many of the object’s children use each day and is a part of children’s immediate experiences.

For further details of the Design & Technology curriculum please see the documents at the bottom of the page or contact Ms. N. Ruddock.


Implementation

Key Stage 3

During Year 7 students are taught as part of a ‘carousel’ system, where classes of students rotate around the D&T staff and classrooms every ten weeks.  In Design and Technology students are given the opportunity experiment, gain confidence and new skills through project based learning.

Each project allows access to a range of different practical learning opportunities with a focus on Health and Safety, outcomes and processes. All units aim to raise the students’ sense of achievement by creating finished products of high quality. Students gain understanding on the importance of accuracy and practice to create outcomes values by them. Working in a confined space together, sharing tools and equipment means that students need to be considerate and aware of health and safety implementations. D&T creates a big sense of team work allowing students to create together, help each other and take inspiration from each other.

Food Preparation and Nutrition is an exciting and creative course which focuses on practical cooking skills to ensure students develop a thorough understanding of nutrition, food provenance and the working characteristics of food materials.

Key Stage 4

At Key Stage 4 we also have a varied offer for our examined options ensuring that we are inclusive for all students who wish to follow a design technology or hospitality-based route. Extending the project based approach from KS3, students:

  • Design and make products for key events and individuals that have influenced the world of Design Technology are teaching focuses that are to be covered.
  • The use of computer programmes and applications are also a key focus to be utilised by children in their design of their products.

The GCSE course in year 10 and year 11 is taught by subject specialists to enable students to look at the design problems we can solve. And in doing this we will look at learning outcomes not projects. We want students to be able to define design problems for themselves and address the solutions to them. The designing activities undertaken will enable our students to consider the needs of individuals and society within both our own community and the wider world.

We give our students opportunities to use a wide range of materials and processes and to work both independently and as part of a team.


Impact

We will know the impact of the curriculum we have planned through the delivery of a high-quality education, quality assured through qualitative and quantitative measures such as:

  • Attainment and Achievement outcomes. The final measurable outcomes achieved by the students that we teach will be a clear indication of the quality of our Design and Technology curriculum.  This can also be used as a measure of the standard of teaching and learning within the subject.
  • Assessments. Assessment of children's learning in Design Technology is an ongoing monitoring of children's understanding, knowledge and skills by the class teacher, throughout lessons. This assessment is then used to inform differentiation, support and challenge required by the children. Summative assessment is conducted termly to inform the teacher of progress or skills and knowledge still to be embedded.