Schools/colleges

ART students at a Harrow college strutted their stuff down the catwalk in a fashion show.

Eleven first and second year students at St Dominic's Sixth Form, in Mount Park Avenue, Harrow on the Hill, who had been focusing their efforts on fashion and jewellery designs, celebrated the end of their coursework by showcasing the work produced as part of their studies.

From Barbie dolls legs and hula hoops to gas masks and Christmas lights, collections dealt with themes such as obsessive behaviour, claustrophobia, pattern and performance, which have formed the focus of study since September.

The art teaching staff were really pleased with the efforts of the students and said in a statement: "Not only was the event a lot of fun but the hard work will pay off with good grades."

A film used during the event is gaining a growing audience on YouTube.

A PIROUETTING pair of talented sisters have been selected to take part in a prestigious ballet performance.

Isabel, 13, and Lily, nine, will be taking part in this year's London Children's Ballet show of The Little Princess after beating more than 700 other aspiring dancers.

Harrow School seeks permission to build a new observatory on the lower roof on its Maths And Physics School in Football Lane in order to aid its teaching of astronomy.
The school said in its planning application of August 12 it wanted the observatory to be as discreet and produce as little light pollution as possible.

A SCHOOL'S plan for a multi-million pound revamp has been scuppered after Harrow Council refused planning permission for it to go ahead.
Orley Farm School, South Hill Avenue, Harrow on the Hill, had set aside £10million for extensive improvements to the building and its grounds.

REVEALING photographs of a Harrow School art teacher have been emailed to scores of students.
Pictures of Joanne Salley, reported to be semi-nude, were found on a stolen memory stick and sent to hundreds of boys at the fee-paying school, in High Street, Harrow.

BOYS at an independent school at Harrow on the Hill are excelling both inside and outside of the classroom, a report has found.
Pupils at The John Lyon School in Middle Road are "highly effective learners [and their] personal development is excellent", according to the Independent Schools Inspectorate, whose team visited in November and December.

ONE of Harrow on the Hill's iconic tea rooms could be lost if plans to turn it into a family home are approved.
Tea At 3, located at 3 West Street, is currently closed and Harrow School, which owns the building, has lodged an application with Harrow Council to transform the building back into a house as it was in 1985.
The school's agent Andrew Reed told the authority in a design and access statement: "Whilst the lease does not expire until October 2013, it appears that the tea shop is unviable.
"[Conversion] will provide the school with additional masters accommodation close to the centre of the school.
"There will be no changes externally other than the removal of any signage."

The Old Speech Room Gallery Arts Society are holding a Japanese Prints Exhibition from 19th January 0 27th June 2010.

Harrow School are displaying great works from the past. The displays will be available to see from 19th January - 27th June 2010.

WATERCOLOURS owned by Harrow School are the subject of one of two new exhibitions filling the school's Old Speech Room Gallery this autumn.
Running until December, 'Watercolours At Harrow' consists of paintings in the possession of the independent boys' school by artists such as Turner, Girtin, Cotman, Sandby, Cozens, de Wint, Roberts and Ruskin.
The second, 'France During The Vichy Years (1940-1944)', is a display of photographs and eye-witness accounts collected two years ago by John Stobbs, who is head of languages at London Oratory School and an amateur photographer.
Once the term begins on Monday, October 26, the public will be able to view both shows at the Old Speech Room Gallery, The Old Schools Building, Church Hill, Harrow on the Hill, between 2.30pm and 5pm on weekdays - except Wednesdays - until December 8.