Harris Academy have succeeded in
presenting a huge amount of information
within an extremely well-designed
website. The size of the site is such
that even maintaining it is a monumental
task. It’s a great achievement that
the Web
team - eight pupils under the
direction of history teacher Dr Brindle
- have done it in style, producing a
well-organised and easily-navigable
site.
The content is presented in several
distinct parts, each large enough to be
a website in its own right. There is the
‘official’ School
Information section, with its
prospectus, newsletters and prizegiving
areas; the Departments
section, where every subject is
represented, including examples of
students’ work and useful links; and
the extra-curricular Sports
section, with both inter-house and
inter-school news.
However, despite the quality of these
features, the Web team are most proud of
their Pupil Website and Former Pupils
sections.
Pupilweb
reports on a range of events at the
school. It is a well-maintained and
much-visited area – here is where most
of the schools 2000+ monthly hits are
recorded! For those wishing to catch up
on recent events, photo galleries in the
What’s On area cover everything
from S1’s Food Frenzy to the
last day of the Class of ’01.
Pupils make their own contributions with
book reviews or poems for the books.fun
club newsletter.
But students don’t stop visiting
the website just because they’ve left
the school, as the well-developed Former
Pupils section shows. The News
area contains messages from people who
studied at Harris Academy back in the
1940’s – and, amazingly, Memory
Lane contains photos of students and
staff at the school from as long ago as
1895!
Our congratulations to the Web team
on their hard work and organisation in
keeping this large website fresh. We
hope that the new incoming team will be
able to continue and build on the
excellent work of previous years!
