Another very successful Calshot trip has now concluded. 60 year 8s (the biggest Calshot trip ever!) spent the week at Calshot Activities Centre taking part in a full-on programme of adventure activities. Thursday and Friday had all 8 groups finishing their own rotations of activities - with everyone getting, amongst other activities, their 2nd session [...]

Year 8 are once again down at Calshot Activities Centre in force, with a third of the year group in attendance. The students have been taking part in a varied schedule of adventure activities - including rock climbing, wind surfing, snow-boarding, track cycling on the indoor velodrome, kayaking, sailing and problem solving activities - with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Before Half Term nineteen Year 10 and 11 students visited a very snowy New York. They saw the world’s most visited tourist attraction – Times Square which was virtually empty due to the weather conditions preventing any international and domestic flights. The adverse weather conditions also made the trip to Central [...]