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28/03/24

HARRIS ACADEMY PECKHAM INSIGHT MAGAZINE SPRING 2024" https://t.co/dB8xCIY9Al

28/03/24

Butterfly house pic.twitter.com/UZEPJq66iL

28/03/24

Students had a fantastic time exploring and learning pic.twitter.com/OfrMeiKmMV

27/03/24

The HAP community are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Richard Taylor remember his visits to the Academy fondly and send heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. https://t.co/i97YdX2e49

22/03/24

Congratulations to Rylee who won the Junior Police Cadet of the Borough Award. pic.twitter.com/L1XKEuz5lE

21/03/24

Year 7 students really enjoyed this reward trip to local Review Bookshop, choosing their amazing free World Book Day books. What a great selection -which one to read first? pic.twitter.com/QgL3cY0YNr

15/03/24

Highlights of British Science week: making slime and bouncy balls and riding go karts pic.twitter.com/jJMjUsErIu

15/03/24

Year 10 students visit pic.twitter.com/lh4I7jEzha

13/03/24

Fantastic orchestral Together day yesterday for some of our year 7 and 8 students hosting students from you ! pic.twitter.com/yh5PTqcNMn

13/03/24

Thank you for a lovely Science Week assembly pic.twitter.com/B76ShOy7aZ

13/03/24

Thank you for a lovely Science Week assembly pic.twitter.com/B76ShOy7aZ

13/03/24

KS2 Science Week assembly pic.twitter.com/KehXrEbCZe

13/03/24

KS2 Science Week assembly pic.twitter.com/KehXrEbCZe

13/03/24

World Book Day Celebrations: Students from Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park joined us for a library treasure hunt. Supported by our skilful student librarians they solved riddles and answered literature questions to find their next clues. Well done! pic.twitter.com/4ChegQ6lQn

13/03/24

On World book day Kenny Imafidon gave an inspiring presentation of his memoir “That Peckham boy”. In conversation with book blogger John-Paul Kunrunmi he encouraged students to be proactive about their future and to have the confidence to shape their own stories. pic.twitter.com/MA76S4tivB

12/03/24

(29) We have worked with many schools across London but our links with Harris Academies is very strong Lord Harris funded a great youth club supporting the community https://t.co/pMHGl5oxCs#LegacyOfHope pic.twitter.com/8rzcuZ4vHZ

12/03/24

(29) We have worked with many schools across London but our links with Harris Academies is very strong Lord Harris funded a great youth club supporting the community https://t.co/pMHGl5oxCs#LegacyOfHope pic.twitter.com/8rzcuZ4vHZ

11/03/24

HAP World Book Day pic.twitter.com/ZyYrzlTo8V

11/03/24

Fantasy and Science Fiction was the theme for World Book Day at HAP! pic.twitter.com/ouDA3LRtin

08/03/24

If you're an undergraduate or recent graduate from an under-represented background with a home address in Southwark and aged 18-24, SouthWRK is here to help you. Find out more and let your potential shine https://t.co/I3friBJR5N pic.twitter.com/2A267lpEqg

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Posted on November 5th 2018

Visit to Cambridge University

Cambridge University. We may think of an elite institution that unintentionally excludes others from qualifying to attend there for their high standards. However, have broken such stereotypes with the collaboration of their's and society's help. In this write-up, I Omotola Noble will be expressing my experience on attending the Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge on the behalf of my school: Harris Academy Peckham as well as the fellow regional champions that also attended the event.

Besides perceiving Cambridge as Hogwarts made in flesh, one could possibly imagine an invisible veil that marginalises the vacancies to get into such a foundation. This "insightful experience" as said by one of the regional champions, somewhat fantasy came to life for I'm sure them and I as our feet ( both literally and metaphorically) scratched the surface entering the premises of Corpus Christi college. However, this wasn't just a physical enlightenment; it was a mental insight we also gained by comprehending that many diversities, backgrounds and citizens could be accepted into. By the end of the day, we experienced an evolution from a fantasy to a reality of Cambridge that took place right before our eyes. After we had learnt about it, the University became a place and ideology that we couldn't have imagined to but connected with. The difference between our mindset and views from the start of the day had totally changed by the end of it.

An international student from Latvia, helped us realise that we visitors of the day are fit to also study with the best opportunities for learning if we really want to. Without a shadow of a doubt, hard work and determination are indeed attached to success in learning, however, nationality isn't. It still remains... Much competition is present in entering such an institution. In spite of this, one's ethnic background shouldn't and with both the aid of ethnic minorities and Cambridge, is striving not to be one of the reasons.

It's important to say originally, the enviromnent was alienated to us— especially for a student like me, coming from the popular area of Peckham and being a Nigerian black girl. If not for the noteworthy and prestigious opportunity of the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge and the efficacious support from my school Harris Academy Peckham, I wouldn't have even been able to assimilate as much as I did from Cambridge.

Overall, the regional champions including myself can precisely proclaim that it was thoroughly "an impressive, dynamic revelation that gave us a great taste of the environment of campus life, university, and lectures". This provided an authentic experience directly from professors and students from the historic library to law lecture. I can now ask from this, who knows in a few years time who will be attending Cambridge University?
 

Omotola Year 11