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09/09/25

Open Events 2025 pic.twitter.com/s4KcVKSPpi

09/09/25

🎶 We’re proud to share that we've received the Music Mark of Recognition for our dedication and improvement in music education! This award celebrates the hard work of our students, staff, and community in making music a vibrant part of our school life.#ProudtobeHAP pic.twitter.com/XHlqoa7Opn

08/09/25

🍅 Look at what we’ve grown in our garden! We harvested our first batch of juicy tomatoes — nothing beats the taste of homegrown goodness. pic.twitter.com/TcOK8D2RlA

22/08/25

RT  : Daria Vlasenko, who fled Drinpto in  with her mum and grandma in 2022, attended Harris Academy in  , rec…

21/08/25

Daria Vlasenko, who fled Drinpto in with her mum and grandma in 2022, attended Harris Academy in , received excellent grades this morning.@PeckhamAcademyhttps://t.co/kddMgj6Vi6 pic.twitter.com/6FjGhzK5CV

21/08/25

RT  : Good luck to all those in Peckham receiving their GCSE and BTEC results today. I know how much work and determination goes into…

21/08/25

Congratulations to our Year 11 students who have achieved excellent outcomes today! We are particularly pleased to have closed the attainment gap for our socio-economically disadvantaged students demonstrating the value of a Harris education: https://t.co/k4OsOZFLHA pic.twitter.com/7BrWbPfwjA

21/08/25

Good luck to all those in Peckham receiving their GCSE and BTEC results today. I know how much work and determination goes into getting here - wishing you every success in your next steps.

23/07/25

Delighted to have and as grantees in this round. Can’t wait to show you what we are able to do with this generous funding 🤩thank you so much 💐! https://t.co/6TekTodYN0

18/07/25

Read our Summer Insight magazine here: https://t.co/tmEHMC3dKn

18/07/25

We wish our students and families a wonderful summer break & look forward to welcoming our new students to the Harris family in September. Here's a short look at how amazing we all are! https://t.co/rGdT2TfCEd

18/07/25

Multicultural day was a beautiful celebration of who we are - vibrant, diverse and stronger together pic.twitter.com/85plaONitr

18/07/25

Year 8 students attended creative workshops run by Theatre Peckham. As well as developing their literacy and communication skills, students worked on a project which culminated in a play which they wrote and performed to an audience. We thank Peckham for hosting pic.twitter.com/kCUjRWBaBe

17/07/25

Calling all Year 6 parents! 🌞 Join the Little Fish Theatre Summer Programme 🐟 , July 28–Aug 8, 2025, @ Rye Oak Primary. This 10-day arts programme boosts confidence, friendships & problem-solving for kids nervous about secondary school. Limited spaces! Check the link below 🔽 pic.twitter.com/cKvVCUCHRr

17/07/25

Check out our open events! Don’t miss out – come see what’s happening!#OpenEvents pic.twitter.com/qJfYv0ARRk

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Posted on December 4th 2019

Peckham Poets Corner - A Selection of Student Poems and Art


By EdwardCompel Us In

By Amira, Year 9 (art by Edward)

 

They offer us a full board hotel to stay in

And a red passport to crave.

Demand us to forget our culture and we obeyed.

It’s like they compel us in, and usher us away. 

 

They split each group into two,

And feed us proclaimed hate 

that we never even knew existed.

We are confined in the stereotypes they gifted us. 

 

They make it seem as if we are the problem,

As if our presence dulls the light at the end of the tunnel 

As if the lies they told our parents were on us 

And blame us for the artificial hate.

 

They mechanic the unseen poetry 

of our unseen rage 

 

They wave their red passports in the air 

“You’re not allowed innnn” 

as if this was the hierarchy in a child’s playground 

 

It’s even come to the point 

where they don’t even know who they are 

to the point where they have no name 

 

They offer us a full board hotel to stay in

And a red passport to crave,

Demand us to forget our culture and we obeyed

It’s like they compel us in, and usher us away. 


World War III

By Tegan, Year 10

 

I have become immune to the violence on these streets

Our population is decreasing rapidly

Every morning I wake up to a notification on my phone

A news report saying yet another has sadly gone

 

Globally it isn’t taken seriously

 

Yet this is my world

Everything I have lived to see

doesn’t matter internationally

 

The teens are the soldiers, viciously brought into battle

Too many deaths for our government to handle

 

Their general is their postcode

Ordering them to protect what’s theirs

Fallen soldiers wounded by their own weapon

They’re untrained

There’s no glory in their name

 

Only shame

All you hear is the statistics

And the summarised story from critics

 

Then you make your judgement

And say it’s the youth

But that’s not the whole truth

 

But then again

It’s not your world it’s mine

Maybe it’s not World War III

But World War Me

 

 


By Jenny“You’re Too Young to be a Feminist”

By Safa, Year 10 (art by Jenny)

 

“I am a feminist” 

No, no, no 

Apparently, I am too young to be a feminist 

I have no reason to be a feminist 

 

I not lived or witnessed enough of this patriarchal society

I have yet to witness fathers warn their daughters, to never trust a boy

I have yet to hear dinner must be ready, as soon as he steps through the door

 

I am yet to witness the women who are ‘just a pretty face’

I have yet to witness a society where women are taught

to protect their innocence

but ridiculed for simply not being ‘ready’

 

I am yet to witness the crying faces of young girls

as they have their pride snatched

as the man walks out of court

with a smirk on his face 

 

I am yet to witness the women being blamed for skirts being too short 

They say I’m too young to be a feminist

then it’s quite easy to realise

what is wrong

and it’s not the feminist in me.

 


By PapulaImmigrants

By Fabiola, Year 9 (art by Papula)

 

Immigrants they called us

 

We thought flying away

would make us escape extreme poverty

but the western world was only an ideology

 

We believe in sat in front of a TV screen

We came down and got comfortable

and in the process, we kind of untamed ourselves

in other words, we forgot who we were

because we left culture behind

 

But then we experienced the gentrification of the streets

we were just almost getting familiar with

 

So when they told us to go back to where we came from

We were confused

But I’ve grown to understand what they really meant

 

It was sort of a tribal dreadlock, oh sorry, I mean deadlock

We are seen as a social problem

That cannot afford to demystify the world they created

 

But we don’t have the power to set the agenda

So, we became post code gods 

 

It was the only way we felt we could feel empowered.