Harris Primary Academy Haling Park
Harris Primary Academy Haling Park is a primary school in Croydon for ages 3 to 11.
Daily practice for Harris Primary Academy Haling Park 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
- Academy (sponsored)
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Pupils
- 414
- Who it's for
- Boys and girls
- Address
- 50-58 Haling Road, Croydon, CR2 6HS
- Phone
- 02037 724560
The school's websiteResults and performanceFull register entryMap
Admissions
- The application process is for children born between 1 September 2022 and 31 August 2023 applying to start primary school in September 2027.
- Applications for Reception in September 2027 must be submitted by 15 January 2027.
Source: Harris Primary Academy Haling Park website. Checked 10 November 2026.
The school day and clubs
- The academy runs its own breakfast club from 7.30am until school starts.
Source: Harris Primary Academy Haling Park website. Checked 10 November 2026.
What each year group is learning
From Harris Primary Academy Haling Park's curriculum maps.
Reception
- Art
- Making rubbings showing a range of textures and patterns. Studying artist Joan Miro
- Design and technology
- Talking about design choices they have made
- Music
- Singing familiar songs and nursery rhymes
Year 1
- Maths
- Subtraction using a number line. Solving subtraction problems. Fact families of 8 facts. Recognising and sorting 2D and 3D shapes
- English
- Reading and writing about a superhero's powers and instructions. Grammar: writing simple sentences starting with a capital letter and ending with a full stop. Grammar: using question marks and exclamation marks. Grammar: comparative and superlative adjectives. Grammar: using conjunctions and, but, then and so. Grammar: first, second and third person sentences. Writing diary entries and family trees. Writing in the first person. Using capital letters and full stops in sentences. Orally using simple coordinating conjunctions 'and' and 'but'
- Writing
- Writing narrative poems and a police report about a burglary. Writing retellings of stories in performance and narrative poetry. Writing own alien narratives and nonsense-word dictionaries. Writing first person and persuasive protest placards and posters. Writing about achievements in letters and diary entries. Writing a three verse poem and wishes. Writing fact files about the moon. Writing wanted posters, summaries, emails, character descriptions and recipes. Writing a persuasive poem about feeling and fairness
- Science
- Writing facts about scientists and lists of achievements. Different materials and their properties
- History
- Family history and relatives
- Geography
- Identifying countries in the United Kingdom
- Computing
- Writing advice letters about how to use the internet safely. Using a mouse
- Art
- Making collages. Printing with different materials
- Design and technology
- Creating a wheel mechanism
- Music
- Expressing how music makes you feel
- PE
- Developing control of a football. Passing a ball over a short distance
Year 2
- English
- Using similes with the word like to describe things. Adding suffixes such as ful, less, ness, er and ly to words. Using conjunctions such as or and, but, when, because, if and that. Writing complex sentences using because, when, if or that. Using apostrophes for omission. Using time connectives such as next, last and later. Writing alliteration in poems. Using commas to separate items in a list. Writing onomatopoeia with an exclamation mark. Using the present continuous tense. Using subject-verb agreement in the simple present tense. Writing commands using imperative verbs. Writing expanded noun phrases with adjectives and prepositional phrases. Writing poetry using similes and alliteration. Writing dialogue and speech or thought bubbles. Writing diary entries in role. Writing newspaper reports. Writing instructions. Writing interviews. Writing travel guides and brochures. Writing letters of advice. Writing recipes. Writing poems to retell stories. Writing a fact file or biography. Writing a letter about achievements. Writing explanation texts. Writing a wanted poster. Writing a diary entry as an animal. Writing a letter or postcard in role. Writing setting descriptions. Writing character descriptions. Writing a dragon description. Writing a police report. Writing a travel diary
Year 4
- English
- Writing letters, diary entries and persuasive arguments. Writing a poem about a moment in history
- Science
- States of matter and how substances change state
- PE
- Skills and game of football
Year 5
- English
- Grammar: suffixes such as “-ate”, “-ise” and “-ify”. Grammar: prefixes such as “dis-”, “de-”, “mis-”, “over-” and “re-”. Modal verbs of possibility and obligation. Brackets, commas and dashes for parenthesis. Relative pronouns and relative clauses to add detail. Complex sentences starting with a subordinate clause. Compound sentences. Onomatopoeia, metaphors and personification. Rhetorical questions and future tenses. Moving words, phrases and clauses to create different effects. Editing sentences to minimise or expand them. Indefinite pronouns. Writing a non-chronological report. Writing biographies. Writing newspaper reports. Writing persuasive letters. Writing narrative poetry. Writing a sonnet and free verse poetry. Writing diary entries. Writing job adverts. Writing a police report. Reading Tom's Midnight Garden. Reading Anne Frank
- Science
- Explanations about the Mars Rover
- History
- Civil Rights movement
- Computing
- E-safety and developing technology
Year 6Autumn and Autumn 1
- Maths
- Fractions. Converting units. Decimals
- Writing
- Picture book The Arrival to settle into the year. Holes, covering inclusion, family backgrounds and bullying. Non-fiction text Black and British linked to British Empire history. Freedom Bird, consolidating themes of slavery. The Three Little Pigs project to develop writing style
- Science
- How light travels and how we see. How shadows form and how rainbows are formed. Whether light can be bent
- History
- How the British Empire became so vast and its impact on regions. How the transatlantic slave trade began and who benefitted from it. How diverse Britain was in the early 18th century
- Geography
- Demographics and how areas change over time
- Computing
- E-Safety. Web page design
- RE
- What the Hadiths are and how they were collected and verified
- French
- Identifying countries bordering France and describing their position
Read on 10 November 2026 from the school's Our Curriculum page. The maps: Autumn 2 Curriculum Map Reception, Year 1 Whole Year Overview, Autumn Term 2 Curriculum Map Year 1, Year 2 Whole Year Overview, Autumn 2 Curriculum Map Year 4, Remembering the Past Dip Do Year 4, Year 5 Whole Year Overview, Download, Year 6 Whole Year Overview, Autumn 2 Curriculun Map Year 6.
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School details: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education, URN 140208. Checked 9 November 2026.
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