This week, students at RoboClub were challenged to design a program that would stop their robots as close to a brick wall as possible (without knocking it down). All students successfully completed the challenge - but not without some mistakes on the way! The videos show positive and negative examples! Specsavers Challenge - Demolition! Specsavers [...]

On Friday 10th Novermber, 20 year 6 students from Kimpton Primary School came to Harrow Way for the first primary "Robo Challenge" day. The day is designed as part of the "Control & Monitoring" strand of the ICT curriculum. Students create programs to control robots and complete a set of challenges.

Students are making excellent progress with the Lego Mindstorms kits. They now have robots that can sense their surroundings! Check out the images and the videos (Quicktime required) Line Following Robot: Movie 1 Line Following Robot: Movie 2

Personal, Social and Health Education is taught by Mrs K Woods (Head of Department) and Mr J Taylor.   At Key Stage 3 students receive one 50 minute lesson per week and at Key Stage 4 students have a lesson on a carousel.  We cover a number of different topics and use a variety of teaching [...]

The Year 11 football team who suffered the devastation of losing on penalties in their previous game, to Salesian College in the National Cup, faced the agony of another shoot-out in the County Cup this time, against previous cup winners Bayhouse. This time the nerves got to the Bayhouse players who unfortunately missed two penalties, the [...]

The very talented Year 11 football team crashed out of the National Cup in a dramatic penalty shoot-out to highly rated Salesian College. Despite dominating the game for long periods the eagles were unable to convert their many chances into goals. After reaching the last 64 teams in the country in Year 9, this was [...]

In a thrilling encounter at Harrow Way School, the Year 7 football team were desperately unlucky to lose to a goal in the last minutes against local rivals Test Valley. For a full match report visit the P.E. section of the site.

The climax to the Shakespeare Link residency has hit the stage. Already they have done one performance to Yr9, who will be studying 'The Tempest' for their SATs next year. The show is a wonderfully imaginative, creative and mature presentation of the play with some fine acting. For a gallery of pictures click here.  [...]

Today students got their first opportunity to experiment with the school's new LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot construction kits. These highly sophisticated kits allow students to use sensors and motors to create robots only limited by their imagination! The first test of the LEGO kits took place when ICT staff raced dragsters in the auditorium at [...]

            Whilst the rest of the school is enjoying its half-term break the members of the Yr11 BTEC 1st Diploma Performing Arts group have been coming in to school to rehearse 'The Tempest' as part of this year's Shakespeare Link project. This year we welcome Phil Bowen, Director of Shakespeare [...]