Welcome

Update - We have had reports of some issues with the login process and are confident they are now fixed.  The 8 digit number found on the student lunch card should now be accepted at the sign in stage, to submit your options use the ‘save choices’ button.  Sorry for any inconvenience.

Hello and welcome to the Harris City Academy Crystal Palace Options Web site.

It is time for our Year 8 and Year 9 students, and their parents, to be considering their choice of courses for the next two or three years. This is obviously a very important stage in the students’ school careers.

In order to help prepare our students for success in an ever changing world, we have developed a Key Stage 4 (Years 9, 10 and 11) programme that is flexible and offers each student a more personal curriculum and a wider choice of subjects.

The curriculum has been designed to provide breadth and balance, as well as allowing students the freedom to follow courses that cater for a range of particular interests. The aim of this revised curriculum is to ensure that all students are academically challenged and engaged, resulting in high levels of exam success whilst also developing high level skills.

In addition to the support students receive from home, the choices they make will be supported by their tutors and their subject teachers. There will be opportunities to obtain advice and guidance from the website and from teachers at the Academy, and also throughout the entire options process. For example, our annual Parents’ Evening, which will take place for Year 9, 25th January 2010 and for Year 8, 1st March 2010, will help students review their progress in their chosen subjects.

The website contains all the information that is needed in order to make an educated and informed decision about your future with us here at Harris. The option form, which will now be submitted online, will go live for Year 8 students on the 1st March following the parents evening, with a deadline for submission on the 5th March. The option form goes live for Year 9 students, following their parents evening on Monday 25th January, with a deadline for submission on Friday 29th January.

I trust that this website will be a useful and helpful guide that initiates and guides the process of making informed and appropriate choices for the students of Harris City Academy Crystal Palace.

James Howarth
Vice Principal