After breakfast, we ventured on a journey up the volcano Mt Vesuvius! The weather was cold, but the views, however were breathtaking! We were able to look over the near towns, Sorrento and Naples. It took us half an hour to walk up the mountain and around the crater on top, [...]
You can tweet our Christmas Tree, which stands in our Auditorium. By tweeting a colour: red, blue, white or a combination to @thetweetytree you can change the colour of the lights. The system was created by our Raspberry Pi club and the main coding was written by one of our year 10 computing students. Take [...]
This year's annual Christmas Fair will take place in the Auditorium on Friday 12th December 4.00pm - 6.30pm. There will be plenty of stalls from cake to bric-a-brac and Santa will be sat in his Grotto.
You may already be aware of the work the school undertook during anti bullying week earlier this term. The students all had the opportunity to respond to an online survey and worked during tutor time on a shared definition of what bullying is. The work the students carried out will feed into the review of [...]
Students at Harrow Way Community School have led this year’s initiative for the national awareness campaign, Anti-Bullying Week 2014. The week’s activities have been both devised and delivered by Year 9 trainee Unicef Peer Educators to ensure maximum impact and long term embedding of the lessons learned throughout the week. Anti-Bullying [...]
Nineteen committed leaders gave up the chance for a lie in and a relaxing Friday last week. Why? The annual Year 5/6 Indoor Athletics competition was upon us once again. After a morning of preparation and practice, the leaders welcomed more than 70 children from our local schools who arrived excited [...]
As part of our Anti-Bullying week activities and to tie in to the 25th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, we have been looking in-depth at how bullying type behaviours deny the rights of the target and often the perpetrator too. Students then went on to [...]
Every year the Hampshire Interfaith Network runs a calendar competition for all schools in the county, both Primary and secondary. For the 2015 calendar, there were over 400 entries so we were delighted to hear that three Harrow Way pupils had been successful and that their designs would feature in the published calendar. The winning [...]
Mrs Collins and Miss Bull took 4 x year 11 artists on a voluntary trip to London on Saturday 15th November. They went to see 'The Wedding Dress' at the V&A museum and saw costume and fashion through the ages from 1750 till present day. The gowns were stunning and some were very unusual. The [...]
On Monday 17th November, we welcomed back our outgoing Year 11 students to collect their GCSE certificates and celebrate their success at their Presentation Evening. Presenting certificates and awards was our guest speaker, James Ketchell, a serial adventurer who has scaled Mount Everest, cycled around the world and rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. As well [...]