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27/08/25

✨ Still looking for a Sixth Form? We’ve got places available at Harris Garrard Academy Post-16! 📅 Open Thursday & Friday, 10am – 1pm 📞 020 8320 4800 📧 sixthform.org.uk Your future starts here – don’t miss out! 🚀

23/08/25

✨ Still looking for a Sixth Form? We’ve got places available at Harris Garrard Academy Post-16! 📅 Open Tuesday – Friday, 9am – 1pm 📞 020 8320 4800 📧 sixthform.org.uk Your future starts here – don’t miss out! 🚀

22/08/25

⏰ It’s happening NOW! 📍 Post-16 Enrolment at Harris Garrard Academy 🕙 Today, 10am – 3pm Spaces are filling fast – come down today and secure your future with us. Don’t wait, your next chapter starts here! 🚀

27/06/25

We recently hosted our last Project Thamesmead event of the year. Focusing on the Olympics with running, throwing and jumping events. It gave over 110 children from 3 primary schools the opportunity to represent their school and excel!     

11/06/25

Our primary team are taking part in the Tag Rugby  representing team  . The team are doing incredibly well testing their skills against the very best in London! 

04/06/25

We launched Harris Stars with a brilliant session for Y7s! 🌟 Y12 leaders Angel & Juliet shared advice on friendships, communication & boundaries. Part 1 of 6 in Conversations with My Younger Self. 💬   

01/05/25

Our Year 7s are fully embracing farm life! 🐄 From mucking out to feeding and caring for the animals, they’re showing real responsibility and care. 🐖❤️🌿

30/04/25

A brilliant effort from our Year 7s this morning as they climbed to the top of the hill! ⛰️ Lots of determination, teamwork, and amazing views at the summit! 🌄👏

30/04/25

Breakfast time! 🍳 The students are up and busy preparing the most important meal of the day — teamwork and tasty food all round! 🥞🥣

29/04/25

Today’s activities are in full swing! ☀️ From outdoor adventures to team challenges, our Year 7s are making the most of every moment! 🏕️🌿

29/04/25

Morning rounds to feed the animals! 🐐🐓🐇 The students are up early and getting stuck in with farm life! 🌾

28/04/25

We’re pleased to share that all our Year 7 students on the Bertha Earth residential trip have arrived safe and sound! ✨ Everyone is in great spirits and excited for a week full of adventure and discovery ahead! 🌍⛺

23/04/25

Thrilled to see 15 of our Y10s selected for the Digital Futures workshops at King’s College London 🎓💻 They smashed the first session today – full of energy, curiosity & focus ⭐ Proud of how they represented the academy! 🚀     

21/03/25

Get ready for an epic showdown—turf wars 🏈⚡ are heating up on the gridiron! 🔥🌩️

10/03/25

Year 11 and their parents joined us tonight to collect their mock results, and we couldn’t be prouder! ⭐ Our best set of mock results ever! 🎉 Now it’s time to work on those gaps and push for even greater success in the summer! 💪📚     

28/02/25

Huge thanks to  for inspiring our Year 10 & 11 girls this week! ✨ Through workshops & mentorship, they built confidence, defined their brand & explored their futures. Special thanks to the incredible women who shared their journeys! 💪🚀 

25/02/25

Welcome back to the Spring Term! We hope your child had a restful and enjoyable break. As we begin this new half-term, we are excited about the fresh learning opportunities, engaging activities, and enriching experiences ahead.

04/02/25

🌿✍️ Poetry meets nature! Guided by poet and educator Esme Allman, students explored the Conservatory  through a creative lens. Through metaphors, descriptive language, they crafted their own eco-poems—blending art and nature in a truly inspiring workshop. 🌱📖

01/02/25

Huge well done to our Year 11 students for showing up en masse for this morning’s Maths Walking Talking Mock! 📚✏️ It’s amazing to see such dedication as they enter their third week of mock exams👏💪 Keep pushing, you’ve got this! 🚀🔥      🎉

24/01/25

We’ve been soaring through the first week of our Year 11 mock exam series! ✈️📚 With two more weeks to go, we couldn’t be prouder of the dedication and focus Year 11 have demonstrated in preparing for their exams. 💪✨ Keep up the fantastic work!

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Posted on February 27th 2019

Hub Councils Hold Their First Meetings

ElectionEach of our Learning Hubs now has a student council which meets each half term to discuss issues of concern to students.

Members of the councils were chosen by students during elections last term (pictured). Each council is supported by a member of staff, who facilities the process and feeds back the issues discussed to the school's leadership team.

Good causes

Each hub is looking at what it will do to raise money for charity, for example, and has chosen a good cause to support. These include the disability charity Scope (Enterprise Hub), Air Ambulance (World Studies Hub) and Teenage Cancer Trust (Creative Voice Hub).

Fundraising ideas discussed by students so far include cake sales, competitions, a ‘red and white’ day and a staff quiz.

Improvements and suggestions

Students are also discussing what they would like to improve at the academy – including how they will make the changes happen and when. Ideas discussed so far include:

  • More cultural awareness days around school
  • Changes to lunchtime arrangements to make them fairer to all years
  • A mentoring scheme for younger students, including a buddy system to build confidence in younger students
  • Whether languages other than French and Spanish could be offered as options at GCSE
  • A new ‘careers hub’ to offer advice about careers and everyday issues.

Suggestions for new co-curricular (after-school) clubs including a Year 11 only Debate Club, and a club where students can learn about everyday things like banking. Students also pointed out some issues with basketball hoop equipment and said this needed improving. They also raise the issue of how to challenge low-level disruption in lessons when it occurred.

Generally, students felt that the co-curricular activities were well-organised and delivered, though Year 11 students wanted to be able to take part in more clubs, despite it being their exam year.

Find out more, and read minutes from all the hub meetings, on our Student Leadership page.

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