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Students Adopted from Care
13th January 2014Feedback from 'Meet the Principal Evening' Dec 2013
2nd December 2013
Harris Academy Merton scoops top award
14th November 2013The Academy received a £1,000 prize for ‘Outstanding achievement in challenging circumstances’ in recognition of its top Ofsted inspection and rapidly improving GCSE and A Level results. Read More
Business & Economics Residential October 2013
25th October 2013
Wimbledon Showcase 2013
3rd October 2013During the summer term, students who attended Drama club worked on a project for a performance at the New Wimbledon Theatre. Students had the opportunity to work with professional dancers in order to create their own piece of movement based theatre. Read More
Boys Choir - Vocal Workshop
24th September 2013The session was led by the talented Dominic Peckham, a conductor and highly regarded vocal practitioner who is currently working with many London groups, including The National Youth Choir and London Youth Choir. Read More
Record GCSE Results!
22nd August 2013I am delighted that 75% of our students achieved 5 A*- C GCSEs including English and Maths. This is a significant improvement, up 13% on the last year. Read More
Federation Spelling Bee 2013
16th July 2013Congratulations to Harris Academy Merton who have won the Harris Federation Spelling Bee 2013. The event culminated with a tense final round against Harris Beckenham. Read More
Jamal Petgrave to Represent Great Britain in Judo at the Youth Olympics
8th July 2013Harris Academy Merton are exceptionally proud of the achievements of Jamal Petgrave. He is fantastic ambassador for the academy and a positive role model for his peers; being honoured at the Merton Civic Awards Ceremony confirms this. Read More
End of Term Letter July 2013
2nd July 2013
East Mitcham Cluster Ultimate Frisbee Tournament
19th June 201313 teams representing 7 primary schools from the East Mitcham Cluster competed on Tuesday 18th of June at Harris Academy Merton in the growing sport of Ultimate Frisbee. Read More
‘Hugs for Henry’
14th June 2013‘Hugs for Henry’ is a charity campaign set up by an old school friend of Mr Lynes, Michael Hallam. Michael’s son, Henry, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma earlier this year. Henry is currently living in a hospital in Bristol, but there is a very high chance that this form of cancer will never go away unless specialist treatment is administered. To receive specialist treatment for this cancer £500,000 must be raised to send Henry to America. Read More
Merton Borough Athletics
15th May 2013Harris Academy Merton retained the ‘Mixed Schools’ Trophy’ at the Merton Borough Athletics competition. The competition took place at Wimbledon Athletics track on May 14th and 15th. There were some outstanding individual performances that contributed towards this result. Read More
Music is Life 2013
22nd April 2013On Monday 22nd April 2013 selected members of our Academy choir took part in a Merton borough performance called The Journey at The Royal Albert Hall. The performance was excellent and the students who were involved did us proud. Read More
Performing Arts Showcase
27th March 2013The Performing Arts Showcase on Wednesday 27th March 2013 involved a cast of 64 Performing Arts students from Year 10 to Year 13. This was a spectacular event showcasing the talent and skill of the students across the different disciplines. Read More
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer
20th March 2013On Wednesday 20 March 2013, a student cast of 56 dedicated students celebrated our second charity fashion show in aid of Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. Read More
Literacy Week - SAY Day (Year 8)
10th March 2013The first week in March was Literacy Week at HAM and one of the events was the SAY Day for Year 8. Off timetable all day, students learnt about the importance of reading, learning from each other’s mistakes and how to perform a “Rap Poem”. Read More
D.E.A.R. Day (Drop Everything And Read)
8th March 2013Friday 8th March was our termly DEAR Day, only this time the bell rang three times, meaning that students and staff across the Academy dropped everything and read for a full 30 minutes. Since DEAR Day we have launched “Get Caught Reading for Pleasure” where one faculty each week is responsible for catching students reading. Read More
World Book Day
7th March 2013March 7th was World Book Day and as such the English teachers celebrated by dressing up as famous literary characters, with students guessing who they were correctly to be entered into a prize draw. Congratulations to Iftiny in Year 7 who won the prize draw and £20. Read More
Maximum Dance and Design workshop
31st January 2013The English Department invited Maximum Dance and Design to carry out workshops that focused on African storytelling and poetry. Read More
MSSP Sports Coach Vacancies
17th January 2013The Merton School Sport Partnership (MSSP) are looking for outstanding sport coaches to join their team and provide sporting opportunities to the London Borough of Merton’s school children. Read More
Aladdin
17th January 2013The first whole Academy production was Aladdin, performed in December to a rapturous audience. Read More
My Photography
13th December 2012Over the past few months Year 11 and Year 12 Level 2 BTEC Media students have been working hard to research, plan and create a portfolio. Read More
DEAR Day
13th December 2012On Thursday 13th December, Harris Academy Merton held its second Drop Everything And Read (DEAR) day. Read More
Charity Dodgeball
30th November 2012This November there have been a series of sponsored Dodgeball tournaments at Harris Academy Merton. Read More
Year 10 Shakespeare Trip
23rd November 2012
Global Entrepreneurship Week
19th November 2012In November 2012, Global Entrepreneurship Week was celebrated at the Academy with a range of off timetable events involving 298 students and external visitors. Read More
Harris Academy Merton is Outstanding
9th October 2012Once again Harris Academy Merton has been graded as Outstanding following the recent Ofsted inspection. Read More
GCSE Results 2012
23rd August 2012For the third year in a row, 100% of students at Harris Academy Merton have gained at least five good GCSE passes. Read More