Due to the likelihood of potentially heavy precipitation on Friday 19th July we have taken the decision to reschedule Sports Day to Monday 22nd July.
Friday 19th July will remain a normal school day, where normal school uniform should be worn. Monday 22nd July students can wear PE kit to school.
Harrow Way Community School is continuing with its firm emphasis on first aid training with a number of Year 10 students recently taking part in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance ‘LifeLines’ challenge.
The project, split into four stages, includes a first aid HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service) workshop, awareness raising, fundraising and a visit to the helicopter’s airbase at Thruxton to meet the Critical Care Team. Read more…
Over the Summer holidays Andover Trees United will be hosting arrange of activities for teenagers who want to get outside and get creative. All sessions will take place at Harmony Woods, Enham Alamein and will cost between £1-3 to cover cost of materials. Please see their poster for more details.
At the end of the year we like to celebrate the successes of our students. Years 8-10 have a Presentation Evening, which awards students in each subject area for effort and progress made throughout the year. Year 7 students are awarded their Harrow Way Guarantee grading. The Harrow Way Guarantee is a series of experiences which we guarantee to you, our students. These experiences will help you to show the full range of your talents and abilities. Below are some pictures from each event.
Year 7 Guarantee Presentation – Monday 8th July
Year 8 Presentation Evening – Tuesday 9th July
Year 9 Presentation Evening – Monday 15th July
Year 10 Presentation Evening – Monday 15th July
This summer the Hampshire Cultural Trust (HCT) have lots of fun things going on all across Hampshire, for all ages. Most of the museums are free to enter and have activities going on throughout the holidays, including free children’s make-and-takes and quizzes which you don’t have to book, just drop in. View their leaflet of details of events and exhibitions here.
We also have an interactive WWII exhibition at Milestones Museum, where children can learn all about life on the homefront during this era by taking on the role of an evacuee or trialling our air raid shelter experience. There are loads of events going on in the arts centres too, including bookable workshops, family festivals and summer holiday clubs.
We have venues county-wide, check out the website for venues near you and for detailed information on events.
Harrow Way’s star rugby player Mikey Summerfield is making a bid for an international place with the Irish national rugby team. The Year 11 student attended three countrywide trials to make the final squad for the Irish Exiles, a team which specifically identifies and develops potential Irish players in England, Scotland and Wales. Mikey will tour with the exiles, playing three matches for the team during August.
Mikey has been an avid and committed rugby player since he was eight years old training every week with Andover Rugby Club. As well as initially playing for Harrow Way he was selected by professional club London Irish to join their Developing Player Programme (DPP) when he was in Year 8. Selected from across Berkshire, Hampshire and Middlesex Mikey trained twice a week with the club progressing from their bronze scheme through to the Gold AASE scheme – Achieving Academic and Sporting Excellence, which is targeted at talented 16 to 18 year old students who have the aspirations and potential to play at the elite end of the game. Read more…
With a school full of such talented and committed young sports people, we thought it was time to celebrate their successes at the first Harrow Way Sports Awards. We were delighted to welcome Sarah Taylor, Franchise Manager for the Wasps Superleague Netball Team, to present the Awards.
We are proud to award students Sports Colours for their continued commitment and participation in a school team and Club colours to students who have consistently attended a non-competing club over a period of 2 years. In addition to this, we would like to congratulate the sporting achievement of some of our most outstanding students who have participated to a high level outside of school. Finally, we will award our Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 Sports Person of the Year, as chosen by the Harrow Way PE department. Images can be viewed here.
For the 2019 prom season Harrow Way broke with tradition and headed over to Winchester’s Holiday Inn to officially mark the end of Year 11. Before discovering what awaited in their ‘starry night’ themed venue, students enjoyed the official arrival procession which once again, did not disappoint. From sports car to classic cars, a vintage American Oldsmobile 8 1948 to luxury executive, students arrived in a wonderful medley of vehicles looking smart, stylish and very grown up in their prom gowns and sharp suits. To view some pictures of the event click here.
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Harrow Way Community School is celebrating their best ever performance in the annual UK Junior Maths Challenge (UKMC), a national competition organised by the UK Mathematics Trust (UKMT). Overall the gifted Year 7 and 8 mathematicians achieved fourteen Silver and 21 Bronze awards, a record number of certificates for the School.
The Best in School award went to Faith Holman in Year 8, and Thomas Merritt was best in Year 7. Both achieved Silver awards. Read more…
On a lovely Summer’s day at Waterlooville Cricket Club the team won through to the Quarter Finals with an excellent display with the ball. Oliver Banks-Williams bagged 5 wickets reducing Horndean School to 4 for 6 runs initially. Faseeh Arshad supported him with some fine swing bowling gaining 4 wickets as well. Chasing a small target Josh Banks-Williams and Macca Crook were the foundations of our innings and we eventually won by 4 wickets.
