Harris Primary Academy Shortlands
Harris Primary Academy Shortlands is a primary school in Bromley for ages 4 to 11.
Daily practice for Harris Primary Academy Shortlands pupils
Daily maths and English that follow the national curriculum for your child's year. Start with a free five-minute class.
At a glance
- Type
- Free school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Pupils
- 383
- Who it's for
- Boys and girls
- Admissions
- Not selective
- Address
- Kingswood Road, Bromley, BR2 0HG
- Phone
- 02037 724598
The school's websiteResults and performanceFull register entryMap
What Ofsted found
Full inspection, March 2024.
- Overall effectiveness: continues to be an outstanding school
- Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.
- Inspectors found that pupils become confident and fluent readers, as phonics starts as soon as children enter Reception.
- The report says pupils with SEND are quickly identified and their learning is adapted so they can access all aspects of the curriculum.
Our summary of Ofsted's report. Read the full reports on Ofsted's website. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The school
- The school's core values are Aspire, Believe and Flourish.
- The school has 14 classes from Reception to Year 6, on a 2-form entry basis.
Source: Harris Primary Academy Shortlands website. Checked 11 November 2026.
How it teaches
- The school uses Ruth Miskin's Read Write Inc programme for phonic teaching.
Source: Harris Primary Academy Shortlands website. Checked 11 November 2026.
The school day and clubs
- After-school clubs include book club, art, coding, Minecraft coding, girls' football, musical theatre, dance, taekwondo, football, chess and baking.
Source: Harris Primary Academy Shortlands website. Checked 11 November 2026.
What each year group is learning
From Harris Primary Academy Shortlands's curriculum maps.
Year 1
- Maths
- Place value. Addition and subtraction, including word problems. Multiplication and geometry. Place value. Calculation with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s
- English
- Reading and writing about Man on the Moon and A walk in London, including recount and description genres. Writing stories and recounts and learning how words combine to make sentences. Writing coherent sentences and using simple conjunctions
- Reading
- Reading the class book Rabbit and Bear by Julian Gough and Jim Field
- Writing
- Handwriting: sitting correctly and forming lower-case letters in the correct direction
- Science
- Everyday materials. Everyday materials
- History
- Our place in history and sequencing things that have already happened in our life
- Computing
- Using word processing skills to combine text and images
- PE
- Invasion games and starting to develop dance skills
- PSHE
- Relationships, including anti-bullying week in November
Year 3
- Maths
- Place value, addition and subtraction, including word problems. Multiplication. Geometry
- English
- Reading Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age and The First Drawing. Using a or an depending on whether the next word starts with a consonant or vowel. Using adverbs and prepositions to express time, place and cause
- Reading
- Whole class reading of Two weeks with the Queen and poems by Carol Ann Duffy. Reading The Fireworkmaker's Daughter by Phillip Pullman in whole class reading
- Writing
- Joining letters and deciding which letters are best left unjoined. Joining letters and improving the legibility and consistency of handwriting
- Phonics
- Prefix dis and the /eɪ/ sound spelt ei. Spelling words with the -cian ending that sounds like shun. Spelling the /l/ sound with y in places other than the end of words. Spelling the /ʌ/ sound with ou
- Science
- Plants, their pollination and dispersal
- Geography
- Exploring the local area
- Computing
- Staying safe online, including when using search engines and emails
- Music
- Learning the recorder with Bromley Youth Music Trust. Listening to worldwide winter music and learning the recorder
- RE
- Considering whether Christmas has lost its true meaning
Year 4
- Maths
- Place value, addition, subtraction and word problems. Multiplication, division and geometry
- English
- Reading Krindlekax by Philip Ridley and other stories by the same author. Choosing pronouns and nouns to aid cohesion and avoid repetition. Writing recounts, narratives and non chronological reports
- Reading
- Whole class reading of Earth Shattering Events and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- Writing
- Joining letters using diagonal and horizontal strokes in handwriting. Fronted adverbials and using commas after them
- Phonics
- Spelling words ending in -ture and -sure and homophones. Prefixes dis and mis and suffix -ation
- Science
- Sound and how we hear things
- History
- The Ancient Greeks and what we can thank them for today
- Geography
- Tectonic plates
- Computing
- Word processing packages
- Music
- Continuing to learn the recorder. Learning the recorder and singing songs with a winter theme
- PE
- Invasion games and dance
- RE
- The most significant part of the Nativity story for Christians today
Year 5
- Maths
- Place value. Addition, subtraction and word problems. Multiplication, division and geometry
- English
- Relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that. Writing descriptions, balanced arguments and science fiction narratives. Writing non-chronological reports and formal and informal letters. Indicating degrees of possibility using adverbs or modal verbs. Spelling exceptions to the i before e rule and words containing -ough
- Reading
- Reading Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Writing
- Narrative and newspaper report writing. Handwriting: choosing letter shapes and deciding whether to join specific letters. Choosing letter shapes and deciding when to join specific letters
- Phonics
- Spelling words with 'ough', silent letters and endings '-able' and '-ible'. Spelling words with silent k and the /i/ sound spelt ei after c
- Science
- Forces
- Geography
- The world's major biomes
- Computing
- Further improving word processing skills
- PE
- Invasion games and dance
- RE
- How Sikhs use water for their religious beliefs. Answering the question whether the Christmas story is true
Year 6
- Maths
- Place value, addition and subtraction. Multiplication, division and geometry
- English
- Synonyms and antonyms and colons and semi-colons in lists. Adding suffixes beginning with vowels to words ending in -fer. Writing recounts, balanced arguments and narratives. Reading the novel Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
- Science
- Electricity, building simple and parallel circuits. Light
- Geography
- Comparing the local area with a contrasting locality using map skills
- Computing
- Keeping safe online, particularly when collaborating with others. Becoming bloggers
- Art
- Drawing, including the work of Ben Shahn and Stephen Wiltshire
- PE
- Netball skills to play a competitive match. Invasion games
- RE
- Buddhism and how Buddhist people use Buddha's teachings in daily life
- PSHE
- Universal human rights and how to protect them
Read on 10 November 2026 from the school's Curriculum Booklets page. The maps: Curriculum map, Curriculum map, Curriculum map, Curriculum map, Curriculum map, Curriculum map, Curriculum map, Curriculum map, Curriculum map, Curriculum map, Curriculum map.
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School details: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education, URN 140936. Checked 9 November 2026.
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