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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 October 2nd 2020

'The Rush of Wind' - A Poem for Black History Month

At Harris Academy Peckham, WORD is core to everything we do. So during Black History Month we want to celebrate the power of our voice. 

Miss Howell, a spoken word artist herself, has written a poem in reflection of Windrush. This was done following work with the poet Benjamin Zephaniah and we wanted to share it with you here.

Pictured: John, a part of the Windrush generation, visiting Clapham South Deep Shelter, decades after being there during Windrush.


John

The Rush of Wind

Written by Miss Howell 

May this Empire Windrush deliver us to freedom

I see my brothers and sisters on this glorious ship

We dance the glory dance

We cheer the glory cheer

Our merry souls are steeped in excitement that we've been invited here.

When we anchor ourselves into the blessed

Tilbury Docks of Essex

The world is our oyster.

We will disperse into England with energy matched of joyous children,

I wonder what their trains looks like.

I wonder what their roads feel like beneath my feet

Will I ever feel the humid heat of Jamaica again?

I don't know where I will lay my head

Or if I'll even have a bed

But we know we've been invited here.

 

Some two hundred and fifty of us travel

To the Clapham South Deep Shelter.

We make ourselves comfortable in our new temporary home.

Some of us have a lot of belongings and some of us have none

None of us have our papers so the journey cannot be undone.

For six shillings and sixpence a week it buys me a bunker with crisp white sheets below the Northern line.

The windowless underworld under the underground

And I cannot believe how loud it is.

Trains rattle overhead and our bodies involuntarily shake to the rhythm of moving trains.

The energy of transport is so fast here

Everyone is bolting around the streets like quick flashes of lightning.

 

We travel to Brixton to the labour employment

And guess what?

I've got me a job!

With the glorious British Rail Depot in Orpington...

But glory here in England doesn't last long

They tell you

"It's the mother country, you're all welcome, you're British" but now that I live here

You realise you're a foreigner and that's all there is to it.

 

I may always be an alien in a country that invited me

They may try to erase our labour that helped their broken economy

They may try to deport my friends of the West Indies

But they will never erase me.

 

I am John Richards, a ninety-four-year-old proud Jamaican man who worked for the National Rail until I retired.

I may, at my old age be tired of corrupt Britain

But I am one of many pioneers of the Windrush Generation.

And no matter how hard England tries to erase us, we were invited here.