Harrow Way Community School

Wednesday 13th November 2019 is a School INSET day and will be closed for students.

A trip to the Design Museum has given Harrow Way Year 9 students a head start in the Design Ventura competition. Working with industry experts the Design and Technology students explored a number of ideas during a workshop aimed at developing their creative thinking and problem-solving skills. The sessions act as a pre-competition platform, intended to help inform and inspire students before they formally submit their product designs later in the year, with the winner going on to be manufactured and sold in the Design Museum shop. Read more…

Click the image to see the extensive range of sporting clubs and activities on offer to students.

For more information on any of the clubs, speak to Mr Haysom or a member of PE Staff.

WILDFLOWERS – Students and the local community have helped to grow lots of wild flowers over the last few months, if anyone would like to now plant some in their gardens (for a small contribution), please contact ATU here. Planting can be done now or in March. We have 2000 plants!

Andover Trees United have lots of events coming up in the run up to Christmas, see below for more information:
Saturday 26th October – Lantern making workshop for December procession in Harmony Woods at The Lights.
29th & 30th October – Half term Nature Activities at Harmony Woods
Saturday 9th November – Hedgerow Wreaths and Tree Dressings workshop at Harmony Woods.
Saturday 16th November – Community Tree Planting at Harmony Woods.
Saturday 23rd November – Quiz Night – raising funds for the woodland classroom at Rockhouse, 7.15pm.
Saturday 7th December – Winter Celebration – lantern procession & tree dressing with music, mince pies and mulled wine at Harmony Woods, 5pm – 7pm.

The Year 7 football team played Rookwood School in a high quality game where both teams played some very nice passing football and created many chances. Zach Strudwick slotted away a good shot to put Harrow Way one goal up, however Rookwood equalised soon after. The second half was end to end football but with 2 minutes to go Kyle Brooker scored our winner. Well done to all players for a great performance.

Harrow Way hosted the first Primary Cluster event of the year and what a lovely afternoon was had by all. We started with all the competitors participating in the eight field events that included indoor javelin, long jump, chest throws and the performances were fantastic. The afternoon then moved onto the rebound board running events that culminated in the Team Relay event that is always the most cherished and loudest win of the event!

The eventual winners were Portway Junior School and congratulations to them! All the children worked really hard throughout the afternoon and were a credit to their schools. Effort and enjoyment of sport was the key and a big thank you to all competitors, teachers and the wonderful Sports Leaders from Harrow Way, without whom the event could not run.

This half term the Hampshire Cultural Trust (HCT) have lots of fun things going on all across Hampshire, for all ages. Most of our museums are free to enter and have activities going on throughout the holidays, including free children’s make-and-takes, trails and quizzes which you don’t have to book, just drop in. There are loads of events going on in the arts centres too, including bookable workshops, family festivals and children’s clubs. View the latest ‘Family What’s On’ leaflet here.

We have venues county-wide, check out the website for venues near you and for detailed information on events. Please get in touch if you have any queries. As ever, we very much appreciate your support and look forward to seeing some of your children over the holidays

Harrow Way took a combined team to their first tournament of the year at John Hanson this week. Playing against mostly Year 8 only teams in the 7 a side tournament, the girls did extremely well.

Each of the five ten minute games were well fought contests. Harrow Way came away with 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 loses, with Yasmin, Amelie and Lily-Mya our goal scorers. Special note must go to Charlotte, who as a Year 7 playing in goal for us, she made some exceptional saves.

Year 8 had a brilliant day at the Harry Potter Studio Tour London on Tuesday 15th October. They were lucky enough to have a set design lesson where many secrets were revealed about the making of Harry Potter and even got to see original set design pieces. The tour was incredible. Our students were buzzing with excitement and their behaviour was impeccable. A great day had by all.

Harrow Way’s Eco Club is ensuring the School keeps the environment at the top of its agenda with the launch of a number of exciting new initiatives. With the help of the Eco Club and a number of partners the School is battling waste, plastic and litter as it moves to becoming eco-friendlier.

Donna Robertson, the teacher leading the Eco Club explains further: “With 934 students and over 120 staff on site, the Harrow Way community can produce a lot of waste. The Eco Club has a two-prong approach. Firstly we are trying to educate our community about how they can make changes to reduce their impact on the environment and secondly where there is waste, the Club has introduced a number of initiatives to ensure this is managed in an environmentally friendly way as possible.” Read more…