During the week beginning May 19th, 25 schools brought over 200 students to Christie's Auction House, located on King's Street in central London. This iconic building is where James Christie originally founded the company in 1766, which has since become a world-renowned auction house, selling some of the most expensive artworks on the international art market. ...

On May 14th, we met for a third time with our group of Y12 students in the Harris Scholars Advanced 2024/25 cohort, in the beautiful purpose-built venue of Harris Clapham Sixth Form. As this is a group we are especially keen to support in applying to prestigious university destinations such as Oxford and Cambridge, we prepared a session around critical thinking and interview preparat...

On Wednesday the 2nd of April, we were delighted to welcome back the Kalisher Trust to Harris Academy St John's Wood. Kalisher is an established charity that aims to increase access to jobs in the law sector. They started by giving an overview of what it is like to be a lawyer, pathways to getting there, and the differences between a solicitor and a barrister.  The student...

On Wednesday the 26th of March, Harris Academy Bermondsey kindly hosted the bright Year 10 Harris Scholars cohort for an excellent session with The Brilliant Club - a charity that works to improve university access. We first heard from four Year 12 HAB students who explained the benefits of staying at Harris for sixth form, and answered questions relating to GCSEs and A levels.  We...

Tuesday the 25th of March was an exciting day for our Y12 students who had successfully applied to our trip to Imperial College London - competition was tough, the students who had gotten onto the trip had sent us really good applications regarding why they wanted to attend.  The day began with the Imperial outreach officer's talk on what it is like to study at Imperial&nb...

We took around 60 Harris Scholars Advanced students to Lucy Cavendish College in Cambridge on Thursday the 20th of March. After they were given a talk about university applications and the importance of wider learning by the college outreach team, four current students gave the students a tour of their lovely college while answering questions about their journey to getting to Cambridge. We...

We were honoured to have been invited to Emmanuel College, Cambridge's annual Lumsden Society's inaugral dinner on Thursday the 13th of March. Named to honour Vincent Lumsden (Emmanuel, 1952), a Jamaican Cambridge Blue, first-class international cricketer and agronomist, the society was co-founded by Harris alumnus and current Cambridge undergraduate S...