On Friday 13th June, it was the last day where all our Year 11 students had to attend to sit an exam together. After we held a leavers assembly in the Auditorium to say a final goodbye and show them some memories of their time at Harrow Way. All of Year 11 were then taken [...]
On Friday 13th June, Harrow Way held it's House singing competition H-Factor. 14 contestants entered from all years of the school to win points for their house and win the H-Factor title. All contestants were outstanding and made the judging very difficult for the judges. The results were: 1st Place - Cassie Shearer (Kestrels) 2nd [...]
On Monday year 8 Geographers visited Kew Gardens in London to investigate Tropical Rainforests. Pupils competed in a scavenger hunt in the Palm Greenhouse where they explored what the climate feels like, as well as searching for cool plants that are used as ingredients in everyday items, such as toothpaste. Pupils walked along the Xstrata [...]
Coinciding with National Science and Engineering week, six Computer Science students from Harrow Way Community School recently attended IBM’s annual Blue Fusion event. Competing against 11 other schools at Europe’s largest software development facility, IBM Hursley, the Harrow Way students faced as an assortment of technological conundrums which tested their logic [...]
The Year 9 Geographers have been looking at beach processes such as beach profiling and longshore drift, whilst on their residential trip at Osmington Bay. Today they have been studying the geology of the coastline and fossil hunting. This evening students are creating a computer animation of their fossilised animal. They have also been taking [...]
50 Year 9 students are on a Geography residential trip this week at Osmington Bay. They have been getting up to some adventurous activities at the start of the week, but tomorrow they will start look at more geography based activities such as Beach Processes and Geology, Rock and Fossils. Year 9 student, Holly Healy [...]
Students from Harrow Way were treated to a top-flight netball match at the University of Bath this week to see locals Team Bath take on Surrey Storm. With both teams in the top three of the national league, it was always going to be a close match but Surrey Storm led from the front and [...]
This year’s whole school musical is the gangster comedy Bugsy Malone, staring 96 students from the school's Performing Arts Department and the School Drama Club. We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to support your friends and family at one of the public performances on Wednesday 2nd, Thursday 3rd & Friday [...]
This week we have been privileged to have Lou Richie, education officer at the Hawk Conservancy Trust, come in and take our House assemblies. To each house Lou did a presentation on the bird of prey which represents their house name: Kestrels, Buzzards and Hawks. Unfortunately they could not bring any of the house birds [...]
On Tuesday 4th March 2014, 30 Gifted and Talented Geography students visited the Natural History Museum in London. The morning was spent looking at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. After lunch students looked at the rest of the museum but mainly focussed on the Earthquakes and Volcanos Gallery. Students could travel to the [...]