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11/10/24

Our fantastically talented Harris Orchestra. pic.twitter.com/Vhxegm04DC

11/10/24

Sir Dan Moynihan welcomes 5000 members of staff, and gives a special welcome to our newest academy pic.twitter.com/Zg1qzF10n0

11/10/24

We look forward to welcoming you to our annual conference ‘Claiming the Future- Beating the Odds’. Registration is now open! Have a fabulous day colleagues. pic.twitter.com/PpLKkvKgYo

04/10/24

Year 8 students had an excellent time in the first of six workshops at as part of their Futurelands project. During the session, they were tasked with coming up with artistic designs for their vision for Peckham in 50 Years time. pic.twitter.com/LjG77vl2d2

02/10/24

🎺 Every MiSST student is able to take an instrument home with them.🎻Their participation and smallest achievement are a source of pride for the whole family🤩 pic.twitter.com/k9XMElEKBk

26/09/24

Fantastic first Write Off for our Year 11 students focusing on source annotations for the Germany Paper pic.twitter.com/577aMtmd4d

26/09/24

More photos of our Jack Petchey award winning superstars pic.twitter.com/MYxAozbyku

26/09/24

Congratulations to our HAP Jack Petchey award winners. The criteria for winning, was having achieved or inspired others and having overcome challenges pic.twitter.com/fEBbGiLIBl

26/09/24

We had our first Future Linguist Club. Students learned about the future projects and completed some mind/language games pic.twitter.com/vnRcy1EQdc

25/09/24

We look forward to welcoming prospective families at our remaining Open Events pic.twitter.com/bQgHtPhs5i

25/09/24

We look forward to welcoming prospective families at our remaining Open Events pic.twitter.com/t1ZeMpd6PZ

23/09/24

Harris Languages Duolingo Competition - get involved!! pic.twitter.com/s1XS30AUTa

17/09/24

It was a pleasure to welcome MP to HAP pic.twitter.com/WLv5woaz7m

13/09/24

This morning we visited with MP to discuss the importance of increasing community access to sport and physical activity. With 35% of all sports facilities in the UK behind school gates, the Opening Schools Facilities Fund will be an important solution. pic.twitter.com/R6I3c3vsWn

09/09/24

Strong start from Year 11 students during tutor time practicing reducing cognitive load using content studied in their Geography and History lessons in the first week of term

06/09/24

We love welcoming back past pupils - looks like their sister was pleased to see them too! pic.twitter.com/FvqdkYWGyk

22/08/24

Congratulations to all staff and students at Harris Academy Peckham on their amazing GCSE results today! Read the full story at https://t.co/n4c6P9ZlbG pic.twitter.com/fpJXYt7ni4

22/08/24

Students and staff at Harris Academy Peckham are celebrating today after achieving fantastic GCSE results. Our students have made phenomenal progress and we are so very proud of them! Full story https://t.co/n4c6P9ZlbG pic.twitter.com/PWmji7DYkV

19/08/24

New Year 7 Summer school students enjoying their library. Welcome to HAP! pic.twitter.com/QnK2x18hxP

16/08/24

Peckham Soup Kitchen will be doing a BACK TO SCHOOL DRIVE, supporting young people and families needing help to purchase new school uniforms, shirts, skirts and trousers https://t.co/S5dofXtGIP pic.twitter.com/Riii2dsCgU

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Posted on September 24th 2020

Where HAP Students Go On To Study

My name is Olayinka Aresa and I left Harris Peckham in 2017 with 4A*, 8As, 1B and 1 Distinction*.

I was able to achieve these grades due to being ambitious, persevering and wanting to build a strong legacy for myself.

After Peckham, I decided to go on to Sixth Form at Harris Westminster where I studied Maths, English Literature, History and Drama and Theatre studies. I have always found myself in roles of responsibility within the student body because for me education is so much more than what happens in a classroom. It’s about your extracurricular activities, extra readings and what you do within the school community.

HAP studentsSo in Peckham I found myself in the choir, student council and as a prefect. At Westminster I was Vice President of the student body and House Captain. After Sixth form, I had to go on a gap year due to financial reasons. But education has always been a key part of my identity, so I have spent my gap year working in education as a Teaching Assistant at Harris Greenwich in order to save enough to start my degree at Warwick this October studying English and History. With this degree, I’m working hard for the fulfilment of bright future different from what is expected of someone of my background or postcode.

I have the intention of being a solicitor or a professor of History. I know I can achieve this legacy if I continue to be ambitious (working smartly) and continue to persevere.


My name is Ifaz and in October I will begin studying at Imperial College London. I will be studying Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry and hope to be working in the pharmaceutical industry after graduation.

Harris Academy Peckham played a major role in getting me to this point. Being around people who constantly motivated me to do more and teachers who always looked to stretch me helped me develop an ambitious mindset.

My teachers' faith in me prior to my GCSEs is really what made me think, for the first time, anything is possible. For my GCSEs I got 7 A* equivalent grades including Biology, Chemistry and Maths, all of which are crucial to my degree course.

As well as academically pushing students, the school also gave us a good range of extra curricular activities. I took advantage of some of these opportunities including basketball club and cricket club. This gave me free access to sports I love playing and helped me interact with students from other year groups.


Hi, I'm Joseph Sowole. I attended Harris Peckham from 2012 - 2017, a beautiful 5 years! I've made some lifelong brothers and sisters along the way - we were a tight knit group, near inseparable even till this day.

I graduated Harris Peckham with an A* in Maths, A* in English literature, A in English language, A* in Chemistry, A* in Biology, A in Physics, A in French, A in Business studies, A in Religious Education and a B in Geography. This was credited to the amazing teachers I had who organised extra study sessions and poured out resources for those that were eager to access further learning - luckily, I was one of them. I also believe that more credit is due to the friends that I had, we were a very competitive bunch and spurred on each other to do the very best that we could achieve.

After my time at Harris Peckham, I went on to study A levels at Harris Westminster. As an aspiring medic and a lover of science, the subjects that I chose were Chemistry, Biology, Maths and a dabble in Economics. I graduated Westminster with an A* in Chemistry, A in Biology, B in Maths, and a B in Economics.

The two years at Harris Westminster was a sheer transition in dynamics in terms of the environment as a whole, situated in the busy streets of Westminster, next to the House of Parliaments, The Big Ben, having regular assemblies at St Margaret's Church and at the prestigious Westminster Abbey, watching businessmen and women walk swiftly with purpose to their respective workplace, which was often to department buildings that belonged to the government - the department of education building, the department of justice and the house of parliament were all roughly a five minute walk from the school. This further exposed me to the idea that I had to work hard to be where I wanted just like Haris Peckham had previously instilled in me. 

Unfortunately, due to the legal and financial circumstances, I've had to put studying medicine at University on hold for a couple of years. I currently work as a Teaching Assistant here at Harris Peckham. Working at my secondary school is a role that I looked very forward to, I believe it's my duty to pay back.

My dream has always been to be a doctor, and to have a real impact on the lives of people and show a positive example to my community that when you work hard, you can achieve great things in life. I live my life in agreement with this quote, "do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community". This principle has kept me focused despite all the negative stereotypes about Peckham. I stand shoulder to shoulder in support of this great and wonderful community and I want to be a part of the example to the nation that out of Peckham comes children of great future like me and many others counting...