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We are making Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the NHS in Design & Technology. The NHS is currently struggling to provide enough PPE to all its workers who are working flat out to tackle the COVID-19 crisis, the students from HAPU are doing their best to help!
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Congratulations to all our Sixth Form students collecting results today! It has been a highly unusual year, but you've made us proud and we're looking forward to seeing all the great things you're going on to achieve
#ExamResults
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Congratulations to all of our
@HarrisSixthForm
students for another year of fantastic results!
@Stormzy
was on hand at
@HCACP
to congratulate them on all of their hard work!
#resultsday2018
#StormzyScholarship
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Congratulations to all our incredible students picking up incredible results today! It has been a pleasure teaching you 🎓
#gcseresults
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Our Sixth Form students collected their fantastic A-Level and CTEC results today!
#resultsday
Congratulations! 🎉
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Harris Academy Purley tops the performance table for pupil progress in Croydon!
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Congratulations to all of our Sixth Form students collecting results today! You've been an amazing year group 🏆🧾
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On Saturday Ethan competed for
@harrierscroydon
in the 4x100m relay at the Alexander Stadium, Birmingham. He ran the 4th leg and received the baton in second place and did what Ethan does best - WIN! He finished nearly a second ahead and helped set a season best of 43:03 🥇
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Maya attended an awards ceremony at City Hall this week for being a Runner Up in her age category in the Mayor of London's Fourth Plinth competition. Maya's artwork 'Women's Journey' will remain on display to the public at City Hall. Well done Maya!
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Eco Club, led by Miss Buckley, continues to do great work in recycling the plastic bottles our students get through each week. All of this would have ended up in landfill if these students didn't do such a great job!
@yourcroydon
#recycling
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A huge congratulations to Year 11 students collecting their GCSE results today! All of their hard work has paid off with another year of fantastic results! We look forward to welcoming them back next year as Sixth Form students!
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Year 9 Art students have worked hard this week on their self-portraits; learning how to use tone to create depth within the face. Marita, Grace and Maya have definitely caught a likeness! What a talented group of artists - Miss Forsdyke
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Day 1 in
#Iceland
: geothermal pools, waterfalls and sampling the Ice Cream from a local dairy farm!
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Students are voting in our mock election this morning - don't forget to vote in the real one today! 🧐 🖍️
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On Thursday 24 September we will host a virtual Open Evening on YouTube for Year 6 students considering joining us in September 2021. Our Principal’s presentation starts at 5pm, 6pm and 7pm and is followed by a live Q&A session after each presentation.
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Year 11s experience Sixth Form for the day with our Taster Day sessions
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Well done to everybody collecting GCSE results today! Hopefully the hard work you've put in has paid off.
Sixth Form enrolment is taking place today, with enrolment for external students starting at 12:30.
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Yesterday, the academy held its first-ever Day of Sports. All year groups competed in numerous sporting tournaments throughout the day, ranging from badminton and basketball to table tennis and athletics!
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The result for Harris Academy Purley's Mock Election is in! How do you think it will compare to the General Election results?
#generalelection
#vote
#UKElections2019
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We've had some fantastic Sixth Form results today! Well done to all of our students!
#alevelresultsday
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Massive congratulations to the students who took part in the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge yesterday. They were all fantastic and it was tough to choose our 5 finalists!
@JPFoundation
#speakout
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Good luck to our Sixth Form students collecting their A-Level and CTEC results today! You can pick them up from Harris City Academy Crystal Palace from 9am (8am for those requiring support with UCAS applications). See you there!
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Purley school given 'outstanding' rating by Ofsted
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Mr Sarson had the privilege of presenting our prefects with bespoke prefect ties this afternoon. Well done to the whole team!
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Welcome back Year 10 and Year 12! As you can see, we've been working hard to provide you with a clean and safe academy to return to. We have new hand washing facilities, a one-way system and a completely socially distanced school day to ensure you remain safe and well!
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Students had a great time in Dorset on their recent fieldtrip. They gathered data, explored the town and enjoyed their warm coats 📐🗺️🌧️
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Students have been brushing up on their African Drumming skills this morning!
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Our Year 10 & 11 basketball team took a trip to Archbishop Tenisons for the quarter final of the Croydon Cup. They came away with a 55-35 win! MVP was awarded to Idris for scoring over 20 points!
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Students are currently outside the Reichstag on their walking tour!
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Our new year 7s are having a great time preparing for their Mad Hatters Tea Party
#SummerSchool
#Transition
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It was perfect weather for our Year 11 prom last night! As you can see, the students looked fantastic...
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A huge thank you to distinguished author Sufiya Ahmed for coming in and talking to our students today!
@sufiyaahmed
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Great day skiing yesterday followed by a snow shoe trek that evening! Cloudier skies today, but everyone is well and progressing on the slopes nicely!
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Our Year 7 netball team continued their winning form with a dominant win over Archbishop Lanfranc. The team worked exceptionally well together and showed excellent sportsmanship, including encouraging and supporting the opposition.
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Having spent time training and playing some beach volleyball, our students are keen to play in their first football fixture in Athens this morning!
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On 3rd July, Year 9 students will be taking part in an employability skills day and we need your help! Here are the details: If you would like to take part, please email n.vanderweide
@harrispurley
.org.uk - Thank you!
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On Thursday our Gardening Club received delivery of five young fruit trees, which will seed the Academy’s very first orchard! The fruitful harvests will be used by our Food Technology department to teach food preparation, nutrition and sustainable living!🍎🍐
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Following a 'no notice' Ofsted inspection in September, we "maintain the high standards" identified in our previous 'Outstanding' inspection!
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Day 2 of the Ski Trip and we can see some budding winter Olympians!
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Biology, Chemistry and Physics saw 100% of results at grade 4-9, with over 60% being grade 7 or higher - all with more than +1 Progress! English rose by 6% to 76% grades 4-9. Media achieved an impressive 96% at grades 4-9 and Art saw 86% (33% of which were grade 7 or higher)!
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Some of our students have requested the team photos from our recent Athens tour, here they are!
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On Monday three Y7s competed in this term's South Quadrant Cook Off at HASN! The students had 1 hour to produce a three-course meal with the theme 'The Queen's Jubilee'. Merton were *crowned* the winners, but as you can see the dishes looked (and tasted) amazing!
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A huge thank you to
@Barings
for their generous donation of ready meals, delivered by volunteers this morning. A team of our amazing teachers and support staff have volunteered to deliver these to grateful families later today. Merry Christmas from everybody at Barings & Purley!
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Our dedicated Art department are running 3 trips to the Tate Modern every week for the next couple of weeks to ensure all of our Year 7 and Year 8 students get a chance to experience the artwork and culture the gallery has to offer!
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Today marks Year 13's last day at HAPU! It had been a pleasure teaching you all. If you need support during the run-up to your exams, make sure you contact the Sixth Form team. Best of luck 🤞
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At the end of last half term our Y10 boys took part in a Croydon Schools u16 table tennis competition. Today, they finally received their medals and found out they finished second in Croydon! They will be competing in the individual South London competition in February!
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It was great so see our students so engaged in rugby training yesterday. The session was led by a coach from the Matt Ratana Foundation
@Try4Matt
and will get the players ready for our game against Lanfrac! 🏉
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TfL have run a workshop throughout the day encouraging students to look out for one another by recognising and reporting any harassment they witness while using public transport 🚂🚌
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Drama students are enjoying a musical workshop from Fairfield Halls today!
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Please visit the Harris Federation's Advice website to keep up-to-date on our response to Coronavirus and other important events
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Year 10 BTEC Dance students went to see Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty, at Sadler's Wells Theatre. It was a modern / gothic take on a classic ballet, and a ideal show to introduce our students to ballet for the first time.
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Congratulations to our fantastic Sixth Form students for their fabulous results! It has been a pleasure having you here! Best of luck in the future!
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135 amazing Year 7 & Year 8 students received a CREST award in recognition of their work in last term's STEM project
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The Austrian Curling Championships live from Tamsweg. See our Facebook post for video! We are pleased to report that the Teachers prevailed over the champion student team, 2 ends to 1. Mainly thanks to the brilliance of Ms McKee...
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This afternoon, the RAF popped in to help launch the 'rocket cars' students have been designing as part of
#BritishScienceWeek
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If you didn't get a chance to read last week's newsletter, our Year 8 and 9 students entered the V&A Design Challenge with some outstanding work. Year 9s 'Playground for Pigs' idea has reached the final!
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Congratulations to all of you collecting your results today! Enrolment for our Sixth Form is also taking place in the hall this morning
#gcseresults2018
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It may be almost a month away, but our Food Technology students have been busy creating some fantastic edible decorations to go on our Christmas tree next week!
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We witnessed some great performances at yesterday's Harris Federation Sports Day, including 4 medal finishes for Purley! Well done to all of our athletes, spectators and staff who represented our academy at the event!
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Staff and students had a wonderful time at the Year 11 Prom yesterday. Photos can be viewed on our Facebook page:
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It almost snowed in Purley yesterday! Meanwhile, in Austria...
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#paristrip
MASSive day for the Purley y9s and 10s. Been rle impressed by their French speaking. Vids to follow
http://t.co/jIAlJggRgq
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DofE students are currently in a workshop preparing for their upcoming expedition!
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Students enjoyed the National School & College Leavers Show at Ascott Racecourse today!
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Year 8s played their first ever football match representing the Academy yesterday. They played Archbishop Tenison's and came away with a 7:2 win! Well done to the squad and to Nyle, who was named Man of the Match.
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It was Culture Day at HAPU! Students were invited to attend in cultural dress and enjoyed a range of activities thorughout the day, including food tasting and music. A huge well done to Muwadda for baking a cake!
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Unparalleled athleticism on display at Sports Day. He's unstoppable!
(as an official)
#hapu
#sportsday
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Students spent the morning at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin
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Mr Poulton took our u13 table tennis team to
@hcacp
to compete in the Croydon Schools Tournament. It was their first competition and they finished in 1st place! They have qualified to represent Croydon in the South London Competition!
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We've had engineering company Mott Macdonald in this morning, running workshops for our students as part of
#engineeringday
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Our Year 8 basketball team took part in the first round of the Jr NBA competition last night. Their commitment during training really showed throughout the game. Unfortunately we lost 10:19 against
@HCACP
but won 15:13 against St John Fisher!
@GreenhouseSport
Well done boys!
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Our Year 9 basketball team played against The Norwood School in the Greenhouse Sports league. The hard work they have been putting into their sessions really paid off with a 42-19 win. Congratulations!
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Well done to the Year 7 and the Year 8 netball teams on their victories last night! Year 7 won 18-0 and Year 8 won 8-0
#thisgirlcan
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The PE department took another year group to
@oxygenfreejump
#Croydon
today. It is certainly a great way to keep fit!
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Congratulations to our GCSE students for their superb results! Best of luck with whatever you've chosen to do in the future!
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Despite the snowfall, the roads around the Academy are clear. We are open as usual and our testing day session is still going ahead. 🌨️ Photo is from our Second floor staircase window 📷
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Well done to our dancers, actors, cheerleaders, singers and compare for the preparation, dedication and hard work you all put in to the Winter Concert ❄
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The Year 9 and 10 Iceland Trip has safely landed in Keflavik
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It's International Day at
@HarrisPurley
We're celebrating the cultural diversity of our staff and students with special activities all day!
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We've seen some fantastic costumes across the
@HarrisFed
for
#WorldBookDay
Here are some from Harris Academy Purley!
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Purley students won this year's Egg Race at
@HCACP
(thank you for hosting). Congratulations to the team!
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Our Year 7 Netball team had a fantastic 19-1 victory this week. Next week (Wed 22nd Jan) our Year 10 team have a netball fixture at Archbishop Tenisons
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Today was World Day at HAPU! We celebrated with cultural activities including language lessons, world cuisine tasting and even dance classes! Many attended school in cultural dress. Thank you to the students who helped organise the day and to staff who ran sessions!
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Our Sports Hall is now a rapid lateral flow testing centre, ready for the start of the Government's mass testing in schools programme! Teachers and support staff are trained and ready to guide you through the test. We're looking forward to seeing you all!
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