In a thrilling encounter at Harrow Way School, the Year 7 football team were desperately unlucky to lose to a goal in the last minutes against local rivals Test Valley. For a full match report visit the P.E. section of the site.
The climax to the Shakespeare Link residency has hit the stage. Already they have done one performance to Yr9, who will be studying 'The Tempest' for their SATs next year. The show is a wonderfully imaginative, creative and mature presentation of the play with some fine acting. For a gallery of pictures click here. [...]
Today students got their first opportunity to experiment with the school's new LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot construction kits. These highly sophisticated kits allow students to use sensors and motors to create robots only limited by their imagination! The first test of the LEGO kits took place when ICT staff raced dragsters in the auditorium at [...]
      Whilst the rest of the school is enjoying its half-term break the members of the Yr11 BTEC 1st Diploma Performing Arts group have been coming in to school to rehearse 'The Tempest' as part of this year's Shakespeare Link project. This year we welcome Phil Bowen, Director of Shakespeare [...]
To coincide with her exhibition at The Gallery, Roche Court Sculpture Park, Lisa Milroy held a drawing workshop to focus on a variety of "fast" and "slow" styles. These link to styles she uses in her work to represent the many different ways we look at everyday things. Harrow Way Art Deptartment was very priveledged [...]
 This was the first day of rain for numerous weeks and as we waited for the train at Andover station: it resembled Monsoon qualities. However the students were really well equipped for weather conditions and all had a very successful day gathering sketchbook resources in order to inspire future classroom studies based on the current [...]
The Btec 1st Diploma group went to Llanwrthwl in Powys to perform their adaptation of stories by Oscar Wilde. This was at the invitation of Phil Bowen and Sue Best, who are directors of Shakespeare Link who will be working with us later in the term. To read more about their work in Powys click [...]
The dancers are excited about the prospect of rehearsing and preparing for a performance in conjunction with Hampshire Youth Orchestra. They are to present a section from 'Firebird' by Stravinsky. The performance will be at The Anvil in Basingstoke in January.
The main hall was packed out at the conclusion of a day of music which saw students from our feeder primary schools coming together for a day of music activities. Climaxing in a choral adaptation of 'The Selfish Giant'. There were also items of orchestral music and a performance of junk percussion.
The Btec 1st Certificate Group, directed by Mrs Essop, presented 'Swamper' as part of their assessment in the Performing Plays module for their Btec course. The play deals with a young man's downfall as a result of drug abuse. To see a gallery of pictures click on the thumbnail opposite. The 1st Diploma Group start rehearsals [...]