Principal’s NotesPicture the scene...It is Friday at 3.45pm toward the end of term at The Harefield Academy. In half of the Sports hall students fill the table tennis tables and in the other half basketball players practise their skills to perfection. In the multi-use hall gymnasts stretch their limbs and balance on impossibly small areas. In the virtual area students catch up with work and greet their friends. The “oldies” are in the DTF, as Staff and Sixth Formers battle it out for an imaginary football cup or award. Young and old fill the Theatre as the Red Nose dance-off continues for yet “just one more routine”. In the Café parents, students, staff and visitors stop for coffee or chocolate and anything delicious that chef, Jez, can tempt anyone into eating.

In classrooms throughout the building students paint, write, think, discuss and use IT. In other schools across the country staff and students flee their schools at the end of the day without looking back, but not at The Harefield Academy.Throughout this half term the active learning continued with trips to the Grove hotel; Drama in New York and theatre workshops in school; MAD activities for the girls and much, much more. Of course, there is sporting success (this is The Harefield Academy after all) with the table tennis players taking centre stage. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Michael de Giorgio and the team at Greenhouse for their continued and very valued support of the table tennis programme.I am already looking forward to the summer term and hope that all of our readers have a great spring holiday.

Harder, Better, Faster...

Karly Mann, Year 11, during a race in Helsinki. She is now striving to make her presence known in the senior swimming ranks

On Sunday 20th February The Harefield Academy ‘NYC Drama Tour 2011’ descended on Heathrow Terminal 3 in matching hoodies ready for an American adventure. During our four days in the Big Apple we visited the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Rockefeller Centre, the Empire State Building, Central Park, Museum of Modern Art and a few shopping establishments here and there! We decided to avoid the usual Broadway Shows and went to see a performance called ‘Play Dead’. I have never known the students to be so quiet. It must have been the terror from a show that involved all exits being locked and being plunged into complete darkness with the ghosts of some of NYC’s most notorious residents. We arrived back in Heathrow with no money but with some memories we’ll never forget.

Sixth Form students, Miss Fitzgerald and Mrs Davey in Times Square and students ready to fly in their hoodies

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New York, New York SIXTH FORM

SPECIAL EDITION

An insight in to the hardwork and adventures of The

Harefield Academy Sixth Form

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With less than 500 days to go until the London 2012 Games all eyes are on the young athletes training hard for the Olympics and beyond. Regardless of the sport, age of the athlete or whether they make the Great British team for London the Games on home soil are a fantastic inspiration to young sportspeople. As the pace quickens in the run up to the Games, the Sporting Excellence programme at The Harefield Academy is going from strength to strength. Last year the programme helped swimmer Karley Mann, Year 11, take the European Junior backstroke title in Helsinki. Karley is now building on that

result and making her presence known in the senior ranks. Last month she competed against World and Olympic medallists to win the bronze medal at the National Senior Championships. The home-grown Under 16 table tennis squad retained their National title at the English Schools’ Finals in March and the new generation of acrobatic gymnasts are picking up regional and national titles as their careers take off. Students winning National, European and World medals is becoming more frequent and is encouraging for younger athletes to work hard with their coaches to improve themselves. This inspiration is

essential for the programme to continue to grow and we are embracing everything the Olympic buzz has to offer and being part of the legacy will only add to this. The diverse range of sports our students excel in is ever growing; in addtion to our footballers we now help ice-skaters, basketball players, golfers, swimmers and divers to balance their education and elite training. Principal, Lynn Gadd, believes that, “our students’ successes in so many sports and activities demonstrate the strength of our sporting excellence programme. Their achievements prove that with the right support from their school and family anything is possible”.

“Of course,

there is sporting success, this is The Harefield Academy

after all!”

...Stronger

By Mrs Davey

On Friday 4th March the entire Sixth Form was taken off timetable to participate in a ‘President for the Day’ Workshop as part of our on-going PSHE programme. Our main aim was to get the students to think about the moral implications of their decisions and what the aftermath of those decisions could be by relating their own personal choices to a bigger issue, such as running a country.

President for a day

Sixth Form students mimic the debating system used in the House of Commons during the conference

Our sports students in action: From top left; Table Tennis player, Baiden Thoroughgood, Year 9; Ice Hockey player James Buckingham, Year 9; some of our talented street dancers and Year 13 golfer Nicolas Jensen.

Tea pleaseIn February a large group of Year 13 students including the Student Executive, were invited to The Grove for an etiquette lesson, followed by a formal luncheon. The students were astounded by the opulence of The Grove hotel and learnt a great deal during their etiquette lesson.

Student, Evo Dias and Mrs Brady at The Grove

Students and staff worked together to ‘Do Something Funny’ for money for Comic Relief. The Harefield Academy managed to raise close to £600 for doing weird and wonderful things, including coming to school in their pyjamas, staying silent and putting themselves in the stocks. Meanwhile, Miss King taught all her lessons dressed as a red nose. Thank you to everyone who took part or sponsored Team Harefield.

Getting funny for money

Sixth Formers came in wearing their pyjamas to raise money

Welcome to the page dedicated to The Harefield Academy Sixth Form. The opportunities our students have are ever expanding and the last few months have been no exception. We’re now looking forward to a jam-packed summer term.

Mrs Brady & Miss Fitzgerald

Free Swimming Tickets

Students can swim for free at Hillingdon and Highgrove

swimming pools during public opening hours.

Please see Peter Smith Beyond School Leader Room 207.

The black and white imges are part of an Academy photoshoot series by Sylvain Deleu

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ur sponsors, Haig Oundjian, with Lord Coe

Coe This issue of The Harefield Academy Newsletter highlights Coe House. Meet the students, find out a little more and take a look at some of their fantastic achievements...

The Harefield AcademyAchievement through Active Learning

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Official Newsletter

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Olympic InspirationAcademy students with their eyes on gold

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SnapshotsA quick look at what’s been happening across The Harefield Academy this half term...

Clockwise from top: Our basketball team take on Russia in a friendly game; a student filming on BBC News School Report day; The Lacey Theatre Company work with Year 7 RE and Drama students; Miss King dressed up as a giant red nose for Comic Relief 2011 and staff get active in a body combat session on a training day.

Damini Charda

Dates for the Diary

“I’m so proud of everything Coe students

achieve. Every day I learn something new!”

Here come the girls

Thomas Maccalman - Aiming High

Grayce-Paige Pereira

Adeeba AliYear 8 Diplomat - Keira Evans

The confidence of our girls is important to us at The Harefield Academy. We want them to raise their game, aim high and have the confidence to succeed in whatever they do. So we got the MAD (Media, Art and Desgin) team in to work with them over the course of a day. The MAD workshop is designed t o open young girls’ eyes to careers in the creative industries. The Year 10 girls got to try out art, j o u r n a l i s m , singing and fashion styling as part of the workshops. The inspirational young women could relate to the year group and hopefully have given them a confidence boost and an insight into possible future careers.

Some of our Year 10 girls try their hand at being fashion stylists

Young master chefsThe annual Young Chef of the Year competition has become a highlight of The Academy calendar. Young chefs cook up delicious dishes under the watchful eyes of the experienced judges. Students from schools across Hillingdon battle it out to be named Young Chef of the Year. After making it through the qualification rounds with Professional dishes, Luke Bentley, Year 11, and Orla Reilly, Year 7, cooked up a storm in the final. The pressure in the kitchen was huge, and all the young chefs were outstanding.

Luke Bentley, Year 11, took on the heat of the senior kitchen

“Keep learning, keep

growing, keep aspiring and you will achieve

greatness!”

When I am singing…By Grayce-Paige PereiraI enjoy singing so much. You can sing a song and know how the song writer feels! I enjoy singing with all my friends in choir and by myself in the recording studio with Mr Wills, he is so supportive and hates when you put yourself down about your singing. Even though I really love singing I still don’t know it’s something I’d like to do when I’m older. There are so many singers and celebrities these days, but it’s not all about being famous. If I had not come to The Academy and found Miss Kazmoz and Mr Wills, who have been encouraging me since I’ve started, I don’t think I would have been so happy about singing.

Student Corner

Highest Coe Achievers Sept 2010 - March 2011

Name PL PointsThomas Maccalman C2 319 Kiera Evans C4 312Jonathan Dawson C6 305Hugh Vickers C4 299Orla Reilly C3 290Brianna Henry C4 288Rohith Unnikrishnan C6 287Bradley Hayden C3 282Terry Nevin C5 270Keeley Rhatigan C5 250

Charlie Malin - Cross Country Champ

Coe DiplomatsYear 7 Sophie Elliot Year 8 Keira Evans Year 9 Adeeba Ali Year 11 Damini Charda

Charlie Malin, Year 7 won the Hillingdon Cross Country ChampionshipsDaniel Brennand, Year 7 is the number one swimmer of 50m Backstroke at Hillingdon Swimming Club.

Our Sport Stars

Coe’s Olympic Value is EXCELLENCEAs a House we have voted to launch excellence throughout The Academy. We are designing excellence badges and a Presentation Evening Award.

“Outstanding Little Things”

April Tues 27th - Summer Term BeginsFri 29th - Bank Holiday

MayMon 2nd May - Bank Holiday13/14/15th - Year 9 PGL Trip

Half Term 30th May - 3rd June 2011

June 14th June - Year 10 Parents’ Evening 15th June - Parent Voice Meeting 27th June - Year 10 Work Experience Starts

Miss Stillman

Student Manager

Mrs Alibhai-Watson

Head of Coe

‘Take Me Home’ Menu

Never get time to cook? Do you take part in activities

after school?

Look out for the new range of freshly cooked ‘food to go’ made on-site by our Cucina

chefs coming soon.

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