Harrow Way Year 10 History students have been learning about crime and punishment in the Middles Ages from one of the UK’s top supplier of professional heritage services, Cotswolds Archaeology. With a Saxon burial ground found close to Harrow Way earlier this year the focus of the talk was the discovery [...]
Harrow Way Year 8 football team played Salesian School in the Quarter Final of the Hampshire Cup. It was a game played in tremendous sporting spirit with both teams playing with a passion which was a joy to watch. The score was 0-0 at the end of full time with Man of the Match, Macca [...]
Harrow Way, who earlier this year celebrated some of their best ever GCSE results, recognised and congratulated the class of 2016 at their annual Presentation Evening, a particular highlight in the school year. Special guest, former student (2004-2009) and BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee’s, Josh Barnett joined the 2016 cohort, proud [...]
In assemblies this week, we reflected on ways in which students can assess the impact of the war on history and also explore how remembrance has become part of national life in the UK and other countries. Students were encouraged to consider how remembrance has evolved to include World War Two and later conflicts. The [...]
The Year 8 netball team stood up to the mark and played in place for the Year 9 team on Wednesday 9th November in their match against Winton Year 9. Despite being a younger team, they fought hard to keep the game low scoring being defeated 10 - 6. Player of the match went to [...]
The Yr8 & 9 Girls Football team had a great start to their first match against John Hanson winning a comfortable 5-0. Harrow Way played at John Hanson on the floodlit AstroTurf, not in the best weather conditions; but that didn’t stop the girls. The girls worked very well together and played great as a [...]
Assistant Headteacher, Miss C Lowing presented an assembly on the History of Andover and Immigration. The assembly started by looking at the history of Harrow Way teachers and where their heritage comes from. The assembly shows that since 950AD Andover and the UK has been subject to immigration. The assembly concludes we are not all [...]
This year Shakespeare project had its public performance on Friday 4th November. Eleven Year 11 BTEC Performing Arts students gave up their half term and evenings for a week to produce a performance of Much Ado About Nothing in two weeks. Their first performance took place in front of Year 7 on Friday afternoon. The [...]
On Friday 4th November, we held our first House competition of the year - The Voice. Students had to talk on a subject of their choice unaided in front of an audience of Year 7 for 3 minutes. Speakers were judged on the clarity of their chosen topic, the use of language and body language. [...]
Heads of Year presented celebration assemblies this week. Students were presented with Learner of the week/term certificates from different subject areas. Prizes were also awarded to the tutor groups with the best and improved attendance, to the tutor group who collected the most reward stamps and students with 0 behaviour points. It was also a [...]