Distance: 88.5 miles Total Distance: 702.5 First puncture goes to Francis. Weather: Rain, WIND!, freezing. Improving in the afternoon. Started out at 9 in miserable weather. It was absolutely freezing, with horizontal rain and wind in our faces for hours. […]
Distance: 70 miles Total Distance: 614 miles Weather: Rain, wind, cold Jon rides with us! Hooray! He is quickly amazed at how fit and muscular we all are! […]
Daily Distance: 78 miles Total Distance: 151 miles Conditions: Sunny with light wind The team woke early and made excellent progress from Fowey to Plymouth, using two ferry crossings on the way (and blagging the fare for free). The long hill climb out of Plymouth seemed endless, and was the start of a long ride [...]
Day 1: Lands End to Fowey Daily Distance: 73 miles (should have been 65!) Total Distance: 73 miles Conditions: Pleasantly sunny and warm! This morning we travelled from Penzance to Lands End in the bus. We were all excited but also very nervous! By the time we had sorted the bikes, taken some photos and [...]
The bus is packed and the Andover LEJOG team are ready to set off for Penzance this afternoon, where they will meet the other riders (Francis and Josh). Riding starts tomorrow (Saturday) morning at Lands End - wish us luck!
This Friday (10th August) sees the start of the epic bike ride from Lands End to John O'Groats. Mr Woods, Mr Gardner and Mr Hudson will ride for 14 days, joined in the second week by Jon Land. The team hope to keep this website updated with reports, photos and video as they go - [...]
Over the last few weeks Year 8 students in Mrs Collins’ art class have been working with children from Harrow Way Pre-school helping them to make and paint clay sunflowers and pea-pods. […]
I recall in my last Head’s corner my optimistic comments about looking forward to warm sunshine for a few months. How wrong can one be? Perhaps we should be optimistic now about the possibility of some seasonal weather during the summer break and maybe even an Indian Summer later on! [...]
Earlier today the Year 7 students had a great time at Monkey World. They had a very eventful start to their day though. Only one coach out of the three that left Harrow Way actually reached its destination on time and without a hiccup. Coach two broke down just the other side of Salisbury and [...]
The Hall was thronged on Tuesday night to see the young and not so young performers of Harrow Way strut their stuff in this year's Stars in Your Eyes competition. For a gallery of pictures click here.