On Friday 15th January, the Rotary Club of Andover returned to Harrow Way Community School to host the 2016 Youth Speaks Competition. A formal speaking competition where teams of three, a chairperson, the main speaker and a proposer, are marked on portraying and develop a subject matter across to the audience, [...]
This week, Assistant Headteacher, Miss Lowing presented her assembly on British Values and how we should be proud of where we live. The assembly started with all students being asked to stand for the National Anthem. It was remarked that it felt unusual to do this, but compared to countries like USA it is a [...]
Year 9 GCSE pupils have been completing their climbing sessions at Sparsholt College. Students from the college have instructed our pupils over a series of sessions. This has been and excellent opportunity to use the amazing facilities at Sparsholt and the Year 9 pupils have enjoyed it immensely. This has complemented the climbing instruction all [...]
The year 7 football team won 3-1 against Toynbee School in the last 16 of the Winchester and District Cup. It was a very good display built on a solid defence and centre midfield. Finn Belbin sneaked in behind the defence to score the first goal with David Chubinidze scoring the second just before half [...]
Harrow Way won a small but fiercely competed 7-a-side district football tournament held at Wellington Academy on Wednesday 13th January. Game 1 - Won 2-0 vs Wellington Academy. Scorers - Tia Dewhurst, Emma Andrews Game 2 - Won 1-0 vs Testbourne. Scorer - Emma Andrews Game 3 - Drew 0-0 vs Test Valley Squad - [...]
The New Year is a great time to reflect on the changes we want to or need to make. In last weeks assembly we had a time to reflect on this. One of the areas we looked was the “aggregation of marginal gains.†The presentation can be viewed here. In 2010, [...]
At the end of the Autumn term, the Performing Arts department laid on two festive shows in the last week. The first was a Christmas Variety performance from the Year 7, 8 & 9 Drama Club, who meet Thursdays after school. This performance included songs, dances and sketches which were improvised entirely by the students. [...]
Our termly newsletter has had a re-design and now available to read online here. This edition includes all the latest news and activities that's happened over the last term and key dates for the rest of the academic year. Previous editions can be found here.
This week was the turn of Year 8 to have their inter-house football tournament. The matches went as follows: Monday: Hawks vs Buzzards = 2-0 Hawks. Tuesday: Buzzards vs Kestrels = 7-0 Buzzards. Wednesday: Hawks vs Kestrels = 4-2 Hawks. 1st Hawks - 90 points 2nd Buzzards - 60 points 3rd Kestrels - 30 points [...]
Friday 4th December was the 2015 date for the eagerly anticipated annual cluster Year 5/6 Indoor Athletics competition! 22 Harrow Way Leaders gave up a lie in and a day off to support and lead the young athletes from our cluster primary schools. Portway Junior sent four teams while Kimpton, Roman [...]