Friday – Day 6; our last skiing fix

2012-02-06T10:44:30+00:00February 3rd, 2012|

Today was like the Arctic, minus 22 degrees at resort level. Who knows what it was at the top, but it made you shiver. The children have learnt a lot about how to cope in the cold weather. They just got on with it and were very uncomplaining. We think that [...]

Andover Sport Relief Mile

2012-02-03T14:46:46+00:00February 3rd, 2012|

The Sport Relief mile is returning to Andover and will be held at Charlton Athletics Track on the 25th March. For more details please see this poster for details.

Exhibition of work by Yr 10 & Yr 9 at The Fairground Art Gallery

2012-02-03T11:54:08+00:00February 3rd, 2012|

Harrow Way Art Department celebrated the success of current KS4 students in an art exhibition held at The Fairground Art Gallery at Weyhill during January . All of the work exhibited was inspired by the theme of “Pattern in Nature” whereby the students investigated the detailed structure of Natural Forms using flowers, leaves, trees, insects, [...]

Thursday – Day 5; our skiers thrive!

2012-02-10T16:54:58+00:00February 2nd, 2012|

The sun has got his hat on, hip, hip, hip, hip, hooray, The sun has got his hat on, but not kept the cold away! This morning it was -17 in the resort. Brrrrrr! But it didn’t stop us from braving the elements, all looking like Michelin men, wrapped up and [...]

Wednesday – Day 4 and it’s snowing no more!

2012-02-02T08:36:07+00:00February 1st, 2012|

Yippee! Brilliant blue skies today so we could see where we were going; for some that was a good thing, but for others it was not such a good thing partly because they could see how steep the slopes are here. All groups are able to get to most areas of [...]

Tuesday Blog (from the fog)

2012-02-01T08:58:19+00:00January 31st, 2012|

Today we woke up to an overnight snowfall of approximately 20cm, which has made the depth, on average, 3m; not very much really! First thing, it wasn’t looking good for our intrepid explorers as it was blowing a hooley and snowing very heavily. However, by the time we’d had our fill [...]

7CA – Spelling Bee Champions 2012

2012-01-31T16:02:00+00:00January 31st, 2012|

On Tuesday the 31st January, Harrow Way held its Year 7 Spelling Bee competition. Hosted by the English department and the Library, Year 7 took to the Auditorium in tutor groups to battle it out to find the best spelling tutor group and win house points. Round one saw the traditional spelling bee competition of [...]

Ski Blog – Monday

2012-01-31T09:08:19+00:00January 30th, 2012|

Today the weather was cloudy with sunny intervals, which showed real promise for an excellent day’s skiing and we weren’t let down. The snow truly is amazing and has allowed for great progress due to the confidence that is gained from having such great conditions. Today we followed the two beginner [...]

Ski Trip Blog – Sunday

2012-01-30T16:19:49+00:00January 29th, 2012|

Wow! We are so lucky the snow is FAB. It’s impossible not to be having a good time in such impressive snow conditions. Please click on the thumbnails to view today’s photos. There are more bumboarding photos to come, but we had difficulty uploading them last night. The students have conquered [...]

Strictly Come Skiing

2012-01-28T23:09:50+00:00January 28th, 2012|

And we’re off! What a long day it’s been. Everyone’s safe and sound; tucked up in bed trying to catch up on the sleep lost today. Thank you to our wonderful band of parents who got their children to school at the delightful time of 2.45am. Little did we know that [...]

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