Bisou

Dude909 We too attended the open day yesterday and were happy with what we saw and heard. I said I was not contributing to this thread anymore but as there seems to be some positive parents on here I will second what you have just said. Please could you let me know who and where you signed up for the extra curricular stuff as we would be keen to do the same. Feel free to PM me. Thank you

I understood your initial post and did not think you were in anyway attacking any other school. As a would be Harris parent thanks for your imput.

Thank you.

Myself and some (current and prospective)Harris school parents have tried to share and learn some useful information via this thread and it seems to have been hijacked by a few nutcases, who, thank the Lord have nothing to do with the school. I am now leaving this thread but hope to meet and talk to some parents soon. As for some of the other contributors, your imput has been really destructive not useful. You should be ashamed for using this as some platform for your own bitter diatribe when loving caring parents are trying to ascertain the best education for their children. Bisou

KSH. I am with you on this. Some of the comments are pretty unhelpful and do clearly have another agenda. We are in the same boat please feel free to PM me. Bisou.

Thank You Mariamadeit. Great to hear.

Caroline_s thank you, I thought as much. these posts are Anti Harris as opposed to useful guides to a school, To be honest I want to talk to parents who are happy or indeed unhappy with the school. I too was under the impression that many people had chosen this school above some others and we also put this school as a preference above some of the others you mention in your post.

Bubblebob, Thank you. Yes we will of course talk to Jo and have a day when we re visit. There does seem to be people contributing here on this thread who have another agenda other than the welfare and education of the Children. It's not helpful if someone is just anti Harris for whatever reason without having their Children at the school, it becomes Political. I am not quite clear why some people are just generally Anti Harris academy's maybe someone could enlighten me? There are advantages and did advantages to this situation which we have to carefully look at, however I do not have any issue with Harris as a rule my only concern is the slight insecurity of a developing school and the transition.

Martspec. Thank you for this. I am assuming you are a parent? I was aware that a teacher and head has changed but not that they do not even have planning permission for the new site.I was also not aware that families had left and others were planning to leave as they are unhappy. Your post is worrying for me as our daughter is due to start in September, I would love to hear further regarding these issues from any other parents please. When we visited the school last year one of our concerns was that a classroom was split into 2 parts with one group trying to do a lesson and another group playing. I assume this would increase with a new intake and space at a premium it was not a great situation.

Thank you. We may do that, but it all sounds great thus far.

Hi we are another family who have been offered a place at Harris ED this year, we are excited with a few reservations(I guess we were hoping the new site would be ready sooner)and would welcome any help or contact and advice from people in reception 2015 or parents who already have children attending. Interestingly given the thread here, we are no where near Lordship lane but nearer the temporary site. I will follow on Facebook and would love to hear about any parents functions or social events please. Thank you

Thank you, very helpful. Beez

Thank you. Beez

Thank you. Beez

Hi, I would love to hear from any parents who have sent their child to the new primary Academy and their thoughts on the school. We are looking to 2015 and seem to have little chance of the local school we want and so are thinking of this school as I like the sound of it. Thank you Beez