Foreword from the Headteacher

Choosing a place in which to learn is an important decision. Our website is designed as a glimpse into the unique ethos that makes Harrow High School and Sports College an exciting and welcoming school. The climate for learning underpins the academic success of our young people of whom we are immensely proud.

 

We are passionate about learning and the success of all the young people we work with. The curriculum is innovative, inspiring and motivating. It aims to personalise education for each young person closely tailoring it to his or her needs, interests and aspirations. Our specialist status as a Sports College, with Science as a second specialist subject, and our resently accredited 'outstanding Ofsted' enables us to enhance learners’ personal development and well-being.

 

We understand that life at Harrow High School and Sports College should fully prepare learners for a range of educational and employment opportunities whilst nurturing a passion for life-long learning. Our sixth form demonstrates our commitment to providing the highest quality progression for our learners.

 

Having the advantage of excellent facilities coupled with the commitment of a dedicated, highly skilled and effective staff team, we provide an education that is both inclusive, stimulating and challenging. Future changes in the education system, School Reoorganisation, mean that we will be welcoming Year 7 to Harrow High in 2010. The transition from Year 6 into Year 7 incorporates all of this into a unique programme of activity designed to ensure all learners quickly settle and begin enjoying and achieving.

 

We have high expectations of all members of our community of learning and believe that working in partnership with parents guarantees the success of each individual. Your views matter to us. Ours is a very caring school. It is small enough so that each young person is known as an individual yet able to offer a broad and balanced curriculum that provides stretch, pace and challenge.

Paul Gamble
Headteacher

 

 

Our Ambition

“Our ambition is to provide an innovative and inspiring education tailored to the needs, interests and aspirations of each individual. By nurturing a love for life-long learning, we will unlock the potential that every young person has within them.”

 

Our Principles

Every child matters. Our priority is to unlock the potential inside each young person and foster within them a life-long passion for learning. Our aim is to ensure that your child’s needs, aptitudes, interests and aspirations are matched to the curriculum they study. This will include accelerated learning. For some this will mean extra teaching to catch up and get ahead and for others the opportunity to study GCSE and AS levels early. Progress is carefully monitored and learners’ attainment communicated to parents regularly.

 

Our staff, governors and parents are committed to developing high quality opportunities for learning beyond the classroom. We provide an outstanding study support programme that regularly

takes place after school, weekends and

during the holidays. Our learners find

  

these ‘booster’ sessions enhance deep learning. As a Specialist Sports College offering Science as a second subject,our extended school activities promote the adoption of healthy lifestyles. We provide a wide range of programmes, sports and activities that are available to learners, their families and the wider community.

 

In addition to the statutory National Curriculum, young people will have opportunities to study a diverse range of qualifications and subjects from Textiles to Law, Performing Arts to Psychology, including GCSE and BTEC.

 

All learners enjoy the benefits of spiritual, moral, social and cultural development programmes that enhance their abilities to become more informed citizens. We give all learners the opportunity to be involved in a high quality, inclusive programme of Religious Education. This programme has been designed in line with both nationally and locally agreed standards. Parents may exercise their right to withdraw their child from Religious Education lessons or the religious part of assemblies by writing to the school.