Harris Girls' Academy Bromley
Academy Information
- Lennard Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 1QR Get Directions
- 020 8778 5917
- info@harrisbromley.org.uk
- https://www.harrisbromley.org.uk
About Harris Girls' Academy Bromley
We are an outstanding academy and the 80th highest performing school in the country, with a culture of high expectations; for our students, to improve their life chances, and for our staff, to fulfil their career potential. We are incredibly ambitious for all and strive to improve daily through a strong culture of feedback, underpinned by high levels of support and challenge.
We are proud to be an all-girls school that breaks barriers and challenges gender inequality. Our students are respectful, hard-working, intelligent individuals, with brilliant senses of humour, and we are an unapologetically academic school that believes every single one of them can achieve. We offer them a supportive, pastoral environment that promotes personal development, character building, and their understanding of the wider world. We believe developing a students love of reading is paramount to any educational success and that students reading for pleasure is an educational silver bullet.
We are committed to ensuring all students have pathways that lead to great opportunities, and we judge our success at the academy by the opportunities students have when they leave and the kind of people they are when they leave our school. Our curriculum is the centre of our educational approach and is aspirational in its scope. Education does not end when lessons finish. At Bromley, we want our students to leave with a relentless curiosity and a strong understanding of the world.
Staff wellbeing and getting the balance right between delivering exceptional outcomes and experiences for our students and the workload of staff is at the forefront of our decisions and our culture. We achieve this by working transparently and collectively, where all staff are provided with the opportunity to contribute to decision making and everyone knows they have a voice.
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Location
Based in the borough of Bromley, we are easily accessible from most areas of London, with Kent House and New Beckenham train stations only a 2-minute walk from the academy.
Why work for us?
Career development
We are passionate about developing our staff and have many initiatives to support this. Nearly all of the wider leadership team have been internally promoted, and we have a track record of retaining trainees and moving them onto middle and senior leadership positions. Staff know that ambition at HGABR is something to be celebrated and we invest time and resources in ensuring all staff feel that they are growing and always developing.
We have a culture of learning across the staff body, ensuring everything we do is research and evidence based to ensure we are maximising the effectiveness of our time. All staff are supported to complete NPQs and have the opportunity to be selected for a Lead Practitioner role. All middle and senior leaders meet regularly for extended leadership CPD, which has included completing the content of the NPQSL together as a team and participating in an external coaching programme.
Examples of the CPD opportunities include:
- Bromley Bites - an optional teaching and learning session run after school every half term to deep dive on topics to help mastery of it
- Teaching and learning breakfast - a short regular burst of CPD every Tuesday
- Learning walks - non-judgemental and focused purely on development and feedback
- Subject CPD - departmental meetings every Tuesday focusing on subject-specific development
- Paid examiners - as exam marking is incredibly valuable CPD, we pay an extra £500 to staff when they are examiners (on top of what they earn from the exam board) and protect their time so they can do most of the work during the day
- T&L working groups. A voluntary group that pilots and experiments with T&L strategies before they are built into whole school practice.
- Aspiring and new Middle Leadership Training