Information for Year 11 Parents
Year 11 Information Evening
Thursday 15th September 2022, 6pm
Year 11 Information Evening – Presentation Slides
Information Booklet – circulated at the event
Career’s Information
Important Dates
| 3rd January 2023 | Spring Term begins |
| w/c 6th February 2023 | Y11 Pre-Public Exams (Mocks) Week 1 |
| 12th – 17th February Inclusive | Spring Half-Term |
| w/c 20th February 2023 | Y11 Pre-Public Exams (Mocks) Week 2 |
| w/c 13th March 2023 | Y11 Spring Progress Reviews home this week |
| 17th March 2023 | INSET Day 4 |
| 30th March 2023 | Y11 Virtual Parents Evening |
| 31st March 2023 | 1500 End of Spring Term |
| 3rd April – 14th April inclusive | Easter Holiday |
| 17th April 2023 | Summer Term begins |
| 1st May 2023 | Bank Holiday |
| 15th May 2023 | GCSE exams begin (provisional) |
| 29th May – 2nd June Inclusive | Summer Half Term |
| 30th June 2023 | Y11 Leavers’ Buffet/Dance |
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:
- Claire Legrand – Furyborn
- Laura Sebastian – Ash Princess
- Laura Steven – Exact Opposite of Okay (cyber issues around personal images, trolling)
- Teresa Toten – Beware That Girl (thriller…secrets, lies, obsession)
- Sabaa Tahir – Reaper at the Gates (for Game of Thrones fans)
- Teri Terry
- Death Note (graphic novel series)
- Gregory Maguire – A Lion Among Men and others
- SE Hinton – The Outsiders (written by a 17 year old in the 60’s about knife crime in America)
- Jay Asher – Thirteen Reasons Why
- Patrick Ness – Release (Carnegie shortlisted 2018)
- Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
- Stephen Chobosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
- Eden Maquire – Beautiful Dead series
- Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give (racism)
- Angie Thomas – On the Come Up (rapper, prejudice)
- Malorie Blackman – Chasing the Stars (space travel, murder, romance)
Exam Support:
- Tips and Advice for Exam Success by Ross Dickinson
- Exam Attack by Nicola Morgan (for Kindle)
- Starving the Exam Stress Gremlin by Kate Collins-Donnelly
- Collins GCSE Revision series – Study Skills (also, an ebook version is available through their website)