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'While we have time let us do good to all’. (Galatians 6:10)'
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Christmas STEM Activities
Wed 16 Dec 2020
The team behind the Big Bang event have a Christmas tradition to delve into the archives to revive a festive classic - the Big Bang Christmas hub of STEM activities you can do at home, and fun videos of science in action during the festive season.
Take a look and find out how to investigate light using chocolate wrappers, and watch how we built a battery powerful enough to light up a Christmas tree using sprouts!thebigbangfair.co.uk/christmas-hub/selection-box-science/
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Discover Materials this Winter
Wed 16 Dec 2020On Thursday the 15th December our year 10 Designing the Built Environment and Product Design students remotely joined university lecturers to learn more about materials. The first lecture was interactive with questions and answers going to and fro. The students looked at different materials and products under a microscope. They enjoyed learning about crystalline structures and how these exist in metals, seeing these under the microscope as well as sugar and salt crystals. The microscopy of a sponge was really interesting as well as how bubbles join. The latter lectures focused on how LED's work and Nuclear power. More really fun information about materials can be found at #discovermaterials @hamlettcae or see our Harris Creative and Technical Arts @Harris AcademyDT.
Sessions were recorded and are available on YouTube for any students who wish to view them.
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Christmas Posada Pack for Families
Mon 14 Dec 2020The Diocese of Coventry have created a Posada Pack for families containing many fun activities suitable for the current pandemic.
Access the pack on our website here.
The Posada is a 400-year-old Latino Christmas Celebration, a novenario (extended devotional prayer). Traditionally celebrated for 9 days, between December 16th and December 24th, it represents the 9 months of Mary’s pregnancy.
Posada is a Spanish word meaning ‘inn’ or ‘accommodation’ and is taken from the inn in the story of the nativity, when Mary and Joseph with Jesus in-utero (the Holy Family) arrive in Bethlehem and find no room for them.
In Mexico, groups of actors travel to homes designated as ‘inns’ for one night each of the 9 nights of the celebration. At each house, the resident sings a song of welcome and the actors are admitted. They kneel before the home’s nativity set (crib) to pray (traditionally, the rosary). The final location is usually in the church, where the whole nativity scene is assembled. Other actors may join the group, as shepherds, angels or kings, or they may carry icons/images of the various other figures from the nativity story. In the homes that the posada visits, Christmas carols are sung and there is a lot of joyous noise-making with home-made instruments. Pinatas are made and filled with sweets and fruit. Traditionally, these are shaped like a seven-point star (to represent the seven deadly sins to overcome during the preparation time of Advent) and can be made from carboard, paper mâché and crepe paper.
In recent years in the UK, schools and churches have adopted the posada through the sharing of a set of Holy Family figures (knitted by members of the church community or crafted in some other way) in a box between households.
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Year 11 Mock Interviews
Fri 11 Dec 2020A huge well done to 119 of our year 11 students who participated in the virtual mock interviews with professionals from companies such as;
- GE Energy
- GE Power Services
- GE Aviation
- Barclays
- Siemens
- Adzar Ltd
- Lorax Compliance
- Warwickshire College Group
- Aspire 2 be Coaching
- The Department of Work and Pensions {DWP}
- An ex-Flybe Pilot
- University of Warwick
- HydroVeg Ltd
- Severn Trent Water
You did yourselves and the academy extremely proud!!
We would also like to say thank you to the volunteers who supported us. We really couldn't hold these events without you! THANK YOU!
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Christingle Service on YouTube
Thu 10 Dec 2020The Diocesan Schools Christingle Service is now available on the DBE You-Tube Channel for you to view!
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NSPCC Young People's Board for Change
Thu 10 Dec 2020Are you between 13-16 or know someone who is?
We are looking for 15 young people from across the UK to join our Young People’s Board for Change. The YPBC will share their views and ideas with decision-makers like NSPCC trustees, staff and politicians. Members will get involved in fun projects and travel across the country to take part in residentials, meetings, and workshops.
To apply, the first step is to fill out an online application form and a parent/carer consent form. This is so we can find out a bit more about you and why you want to take part. You’ll need to send the application to us by 11 January 2021 and be available for a virtual interview with our friendly team between 18 - 21 January 2021.
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Warwick University Christmas Lectures
Fri 04 Dec 2020Warwick Christmas Lectures
Our annual science extravaganza has moved ONLINE!
In line with government guidance, Warwick Arts Centre remains closed, however, scientists from the University of Warwick aren’t so easily stopped! Produced in association with the University of Warwick’s Department of Physics, six intrepid Physicists bring you a bite-sized taste of the world-class research happening here on campus. So, pull on your Christmas jumper, grab a mince pie and settle down with family members for these FREE ten-minute lectures featuring mindboggling science and explosive experiments you can do at home.
The lectures will be posted on Warwick Arts Centre’s YouTube channel at 2pm on 15th December.
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Christmas lunch for students at Harris CofE Academy
Thu 03 Dec 2020
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Harris Students Gain Rugby School Drama Scholarships
Wed 02 Dec 2020After a lengthy application process including auditions, interviews and entrance exams, our amazing Head Girl Izzy F and superb Creative Arts prefect Paige J have been successful in applying for a Drama Scholarship at Rugby School.
This means they have been offered a place with a hefty bursary to attend Rugby school to study Drama and other A Levels at Rugby
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Smallpeice Trust FREE CyberFirst Courses - Year 8
Tue 01 Dec 2020CyberFirst 2020 Update
Trailblazers and Adventurers courses have launched
We are delighted to announce that a new timetable of FREE CyberFirst Trailblazers and Adventurers virtual courses is available on The Smallpeice Trust website.
CyberFirst TrailblazersA free online course for students who wish to start their CyberFirst journey. This online course is open to any student who started Year 8, S2 in Scotland, or Year 9 in Northern Ireland in the 2020/21 academic year. This is the first in a series of CyberFirst courses which start students on the exciting path to considering which GCSEs they will take and how computer science can play a key role in their career prospects.
CYBERFIRST TRAILBLAZERS
COURSES
8-9 February 2021
11-12 February 2021
15-16 February 2021
18-19 February 2021
