Year 9 student, Harry Arnold, has been chosen as one of the winners of the Historical Association Historical Fiction Competition 2014.  His story ‘Brutality’ (based on the opening days of the Battle of the Somme), was selected as one of the 6 winning stories from over 100 entries from across the country.    [More]

Fifteen lucky year 10 Food and Nutrition students recently had the chance to work extend their cookery skills, by taking part in a Culinary Master class, run by the Enterprise and Skills Company.  The Head chef from the four star Bournemouth Marriott Hotel, came to educate the students in the art of gutting, descaling, filleting and cooking whole lemon sole.  [More]

Recently, 30 gifted and talented students came from the three middle schools in DASP to the Thomas Hardye school Art Department to work with Jane Chapman and Tim Warnes. Chapman and Warnes are two Dorset based illustrators with international success. [More]

Thomas Hardye School's annual prizegiving ceremonies recently took place in the School Theatre over two nights. Guest speaker at both events was Rachael Chadwick. Rachael is the daughter of Dorchester Middle School's Headteacher, Paul Chadwick.[More]

At the end of June, 40 local Dorset based visitors ran workshops for students to inform them of what their jobs involved and what they looked for in their employees. The Thomas Hardye Sixth Form were very fortunate to have support and input from Andrew Roberts Wray the Headteacher of Sunninghill  School, who also chairs the Dorset Beacon network.[More]

Last weekend 28-29 July, The Thomas Hardye School CCF was involved not only in completing their final Duke of Edinburgh Bronze and Silver Award expeditions and flying with the RAF but also in supporting the Tank museum at Bovington. [More]

The Thomas Hardye School windsurfing team took a very respectable 5th place in the windsurfing section at the Sainsbury’s  Dorset School Games recently. Competing with schools from all parts of the county, the 7 strong team raced all day in near perfect conditions at The Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy. [More]

The Level 1 Pathways students of The Thomas Hardye School are studying the CoPE course alongside the Level 1 NVQ in Land Based Work Based Studies at Kingston Maurward College.  As part of the CoPE course they have to organise and hold a fundraising event for a charity of their choice. [More]

Year 10 and 12 Dance students enjoyed a performance and workshop from RISE Dance Company who visited the school on Thursday 12 June. The piece for four dances cleverly intertwined four stories, each based on receiving a letter. In the workshop, students were taught repertoire which challenged their performance skills.  [More]

Both the year 9 and 10 girls' rounders teams performed brilliantly at the annual area rounders tournaments held at All Saints.

The year 10 team won both their games to win the tournament in an efficient and convincing style, [More]

James Baker has been Director of Music at The Thomas Hardye School for the past 6 years. During that time, he has been responsible for an incredibly wide variety of musical activities and opportunities that have been enjoyed by students, and staff! [More]

Perfect conditions marked the start of the summer 2014 windsurfing course with OTC at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. [More]