Learning, innovation and wellbeing

One of the School’s key priorities is a focus on equipping Harrovians with the skills, dispositions and attributes that they will need for the future. This extends beyond the curriculum to the wider learning opportunities that are afforded to boys at Harrow, thanks to a number of initiatives and programmes funded by the Harrow Development Trust.

VISITING FELLOWS PROGRAMME

Through the Visiting Fellows programme, the ambition is to create a learning environment that enables pupils to take inspiration from industry leaders and practitioners in their field.

The Harrow Development Trust is helping to fund a number of visiting posts benefiting the School’s provision in Art, Music and Drama. Over the coming year, we hope to create a programme of visiting engineers to support teaching in the Physics, Maths and Design & Technology Departments. Each visiting engineer will spend up to a year in the School for a few days each week, and boys will benefit greatly from their expertise, insight and energy. In addition, this will enable each department to extend their work with the local community through workshops for local primary school children.

£3,360 TOWARDS THE F1 IN SCHOOLS PROJECT

FORMULA E GREENPOWER RACING

The Harrow Development Trust sponsored this year’s F1 in Schools project. F1 in Schools offers a way to learn STEMrelated subjects in an exciting way and is the largest and most successful school-based STEM programme in the world.

EXCELLENCE IN STEM AT HARROW

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Engineering: 4 Harrovians were awarded prestigious Arkwright Engineering Scholarships, which aim to inspire and nurture school-age students to be the country’s future leaders in the engineering profession.

SPONSORED LECTURES

During the year, Harrow welcomed many distinguished speakers to the Hill. As part of the Coutts Open Lectures series, Dr Emily Saunderson of The Barts Institute, and Professor David Leigh FRS (2016 Committee for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry) hosted the inaugural lectures in Biology and Chemistry respectively.

£150k TOWARDS SPONSORED LECTURE SERIES

UNIVERSITY AND CAREER SUPPORT

Funds contributed through the HDT continue to invest in a US College Advisor position to support the quarter of Harrovians who are now experiencing the Liberal Arts curriculum and holistic application process of the American university system.

Other Harrovians are beginning to explore degree apprenticeships with some of the world’s biggest technology, banking and accountancy firms. Increasingly, employers are finding that graduates do not have the skillsets that they need and are consequently using more sophisticated recruitment tools that rely on algorithmic and competency-based approaches more than reputation of university and degree classification.

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For the third year in a row, the A* rate has exceeded the School’s average A* rate at A level since the grade was introduced in 2010.

Leavers in 2019 took up places at seven of the world’s top ten universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford and Chicago, and at seven of the eight Ivy League schools in America. Others have secured places at the UK’s most academically selective universities, such as Imperial, Durham, LSE and UCL.

£100k TOWARDS EXPANDING MENTAL HEALTH PROVISION Thanks to a specific generous contribution, the HDT is supporting a significant expansion of mental health provision at the School. From September 2020, the School will employ a professional mental health counsellor to work alongside the School Psychologist, and the wider pastoral care team at Harrow.