Information for Year 10 Parents
Work Experience
Work Experience Parent Information Evening – 10th October 2024
Work Experience Briefing Presentation Slides.
Important Dates
18th September 2024 | Y7 & Y10 School Photographer |
26th September 2024 | Open Evening, school closes at 12.30pm |
11th October 2024 | Yrs 9 – 11 Shakespeare Globe Theatre Trip |
28th October – 1st November | Autumn Half Term |
4th November 2024 | INSET Day 2 |
5th November 2024 | Staff Training – School Closed – Students working from home |
7th November 2024 | Year 10 Blood Brothers Trip |
21st November 2024 | Meet the Tutor – school closes at 12.30pm |
6th December 2024 | Christmas Fair |
12th December 2024 | Y10 Parents/Carers Consultation Evening – Virtual |
13th December 2024 | INSET Day 3 |
16th December 2024 | Nasal Flu / HPV / Teenage Booster vaccinations |
20th December 2024 | End of term – school closes at 12.30pm |
23rd December – 3rd January | Christmas Holiday |
2025
6th January 2025 | First day of Spring Term |
20th – 24th January 2025 | Yr 10 Catering Practicals – Week 1 |
27th – 31st January 2025 | Yr 10 Catering Practicals – Week 2 |
14th – 17th February 2025 | Yrs 9 – 11 New York Trip |
17th – 25th February 2025 | Spring Half-Term |
23rd – 25th February 2025 | Yr 9/10 Paris Trip |
18th March 2025 | Yrs 9/10 Rugby 7’s Andover RFC |
4th April 2025 | End of term |
7th April – 21st April | Easter Holiday |
22nd April 2025 | First day of Summer Term |
19th May 2025 | Yrs 9/10 District Athletics |
30th April – 2nd May 2025 | School Musical Shows |
26th May – 30th May | Summer Half Term |
12th June 2025 | Harrow Ways Got Talent Show |
23rd – 27th June 2025 | Yr 10 Exams – Week 1 |
30th June – 4th July 2025 | Yr 10 Exams – Week 2 |
3rd July 2025 | Yrs 9/10 Presentation Evening (by invitation) |
7th – 11th July 2025 | Work Experience week (TBC) |
10th July 2025 | PE Presentation Evening (by invitation) |
11th July 2025 | Sports Day |
14th July 2025 | Sports Day reserve |
18th July 2025 | End of term – school closes at 12.30pm |
21st July 2025 | INSET Day 4 |
22nd July 2025 | INSET Day 5 |
An up to date list of calendared events can be found here.
Extra-Curricular Clubs
Suggested Reading
At Harrow Way, we acknowledge the large body of research which indicates a correlation between reading and academic success and between reading and well-being and we encourage all our students to be readers. To this end, our Learning Resource Centre operates a library facility with thousands of fiction and non-fiction books supporting reading for pleasure and reading for purpose. Some audio fiction titles are available. There are also a wide variety of magazines.
We operate an E-book platform though Hampshire County Council and this now includes audio books too. Our Reading Cloud platform allows students to access the library catalogue, read and write book reviews, find out what new titles are available and more. Both can be accessed via the VLE. All of these are free to use. However, lost items will need to be replaced by the borrower. In addition, we run a student book group called NatterReads who meet informally most weeks over lunch to share what they are reading.
Our Learning Resource Centre Manager is able to provide recommended reading book lists for students who are reluctant or struggling readers as well as recommended book review and search websites.
Suggested Reading:
- Teri Terry – Contagion (post apocalyptic event)
- Marcus Sedgewick – Saint Death (Carnegie shortlisted 2018)
- Arwen Elys Dayton – The Seekers trilogy (action, adventure, romance. Game of thrones fans will like)
- E. Lockhart – Genuine Fraud (suspense)
- Karen M. McManus – One of us is Lying (murder, secrets)
- Rati Mehrotra – MarksWoman (post apocalyptic fantasy)
- Robert Muchamore – Killer T (gene editing technology, terrorists)
- Charles Dickens
- Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
- Jandy Nelson – I’ll give you the Sun
- Lisa Williamson – All about Mia (teenage pregnancy, family dynamics)
- Harper Lee – To Kill a Mocking Bird (racism, legal system)
- Scott Westerfield
- Rick Yancey
- M Carey – The Girl with All the Gifts