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30/06/25

A quick reminder of our Open Events for this September 2025 via the MS Forms on our website:https://t.co/iBb51bOglL The is also a Year 5 Parents Information Evening on the 3rd July at 5.30pm. Do come along to meet staff and ask any questions you may have. pic.twitter.com/77MtPEGFpN

23/06/25

Book on to our Open Events for this September 2025 via the MS Forms on our website:https://t.co/iBb51bNIwd We are also holding a Year 5 Parents Information Evening on the 3rd July at 5.30pm. Do come along and meet the Head of Academy and ask any questions. pic.twitter.com/mGews2Dt7Y

18/06/25

Our Open Events are live to book onto, for this September via an MS Forms on our website:https://t.co/iBb51bNIwd We are also holding a Year 5 Parents Information Evening on the 3rd July at 5.30pm. Do come along and meet the Head of Academy and ask any questions. pic.twitter.com/HLp0cZ5tmb

15/06/25

Our Sixth Form taster is fast approaching! Join us on the 10th July 2025 pic.twitter.com/5bfCvm7tM7

11/06/25

Just some creative line marking on one of our fields this summer. pic.twitter.com/4P0sy62J0u

06/06/25

for all those teachers and school staff out there: National Thank A Teacher Day is coming up on the 18th June. You can send a card to a friend, colleague or teacher, using this link: https://t.co/lexztaa3QH pic.twitter.com/7CsYwlOJZT

06/06/25

HAO received it's Social Value Certificate from this week, which is calculated from the hours our students have volunteered and contributed to and in the wider community. A great achievement to our Bronze, Silver and Gold award participants! pic.twitter.com/EC4XljXuVM

06/06/25

Though we often have Friday fish and chips for lunch, today HAO marked National Fish and Chips day with some extra flare. Thanks to our catering team for providing great food, as always. pic.twitter.com/dTja4pPmV9

03/06/25

A reminder for parents and students of some of our afterschool sporting clubs available this term. pic.twitter.com/gW7pH13Icl

02/06/25

A warm welcome back to our staff and students as we start the summer 2 term. Good luck to those that are finishing the last round of external exams and to those about to start their end of year assessments. pic.twitter.com/F45kzKthla

23/05/25

It is finally the end of the the first summer half term and we want to wish our community a wonderful break next week. For Y11 and Y13, don't forget we have masterclasses taking place: https://t.co/4AhuKYZCYn pic.twitter.com/SNw73mezdb

16/05/25

As we approach the last half term, this is a reminder that many of the year groups will have end of year assessments taking place soon. To help, we have created year group assessment revision packs, now available on our website.https://t.co/oLgKKs6hRO

14/05/25

There was an award ceremony at the end of the talk, with a possible six awards. Two of these awards went to Harris students and one, to our very own Shyanne for 'responsibility'. Congratulations Shyanne! Visit our website for more details on the event: https://t.co/jcPdSW8aeU pic.twitter.com/78xz0I3xDT

14/05/25

Hosted by , the event 'The Game Plan Roadshow' featured panel discussions and interactive activities aimed to develop the skills, resilience and mental strengths needed for the workplace.https://t.co/Ysc2fCpHfz

14/05/25

Last week some of our Y12 students attended a High Performance Roadshow event for schools. Six students from HAO attended the live filming of a podcast episode and had a great time hearing from inspirational individuals. pic.twitter.com/HZ1csJVdta

08/05/25

At the end of last term, some of our sixth form students in biology, art and psychology got a chance to visit the and Bethlem Museum of the Mind. All to boost their knowledge and understanding, giving insight to treatments as well as the artwork created by patients pic.twitter.com/6OqaWpeUTC

08/05/25

Uni prepared a delicious Japanese sushi dish which won over the judges. Uni was presented with a stunning Lingua Chef 2025 trophy, as well as a bag of cooking items, her own Lingua Chef 2025 apron, and a beautifully illustrated graphic novel recipe book. pic.twitter.com/wq4wjsssh0

08/05/25

A huge congratulations Y8 Uni who was one of the talented Lingua Chef winners this year. The Federation MFL LinguaChef competition invites students to create culinary dishes inspired by cuisine from around the world. pic.twitter.com/JkaMuNXj67

08/05/25

At the end of last term, some of our sixth form students in biology, art and psychology got a chance to visit the and Bethlem Museum of the Mind. All to boost their knowledge and understanding, giving insight to treatments as well as the artwork created by patience pic.twitter.com/VqeOmw70IQ

08/05/25

Check out the schools website for the full exam timetable for Y11 and sixth form, in the coming weeks. We have also set up some masterclass sessions and you can read about how to prep for the exams and the rules and regulations here: https://t.co/cdvEBeQPis pic.twitter.com/HJJqN2x14z

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Posted on March 6th 2019

Orpington 100 - One Hundred Books to Enjoy

Orpington 100.jpg large (1) 2We're proud to announce the launch of the Orpington 100 - a list of 100 books that students can aim to read during their time at the Academy. 

Including both contemporary fiction and classics, take a look at the books listed below and then choose which one to read first! Students taking up the challenge of reading all 100 books will gain hugely from the experience, whether reading for pure pleasure or to broaden their knowledge and literary horizons.

We'll be referring to the list in lessons and discussing books with students too, whenever we get the chance. So check out the list below and decide which one you will read next! Copies of all the books will be found in our school library.

The Orpington 100 list

Book

Author

A Bend in the River

VS Naipaul

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Daniel Handler

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Any Human Heart

William Boyd

Atonement

Ian McEwan

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

Charlotte’s Web

EB White

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Diary of a Wimpey Kid

Jeff Kinney

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Anne Tyler

Dr Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Fantastic Mr Fox

Roald Dahl

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift

Harry Potter series

JK Rowling

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterley

His Dark Materials trilogy

Philip Pullman

I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith

I, Corriander

Sally Gardner

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Lily Alone

Jaqueline Wilson

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

Noughts and Crosses

Malorie Blackman

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pigeon English

Stephen Kelman

Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918

  

Pride and Prejudice

 Jane Austen

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier

Refugee Boy

Benjamin Zephaniah

Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys

Scoop

Evelyn Waugh

Small Island

Andrea Levy

Suite Francaise

Irene Neirovsky

Swallows and Amazons

Arthur Ransome

Terror Kid

Benjamin Zephaniah

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

The 39 Steps

John Buchan

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The Alchemist

Paul Coelho

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

The Book Thief 

Marcus Zusak

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

John Boyne

The Catcher in the Rye

JD Salinger

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Mark Haddon

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing

The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

The Hobbit

 JRR Tolkien

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

The Life of Pi

Yann Martel

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

CS Lewis

The Lord of the Rings

JRR Tolkein

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

The Other Boleyn Girl

 Philippa Gregory

The Perks of Being a Wallflower 

Stephen Chbosky

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark

The Red and Black

Stendhal

One Day

David Nicholls

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Stranger

Albert Camus

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

The Tin Drum

Gunter Grass

The Twits

Roald Dahl

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

John le Carre

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Tom Jones

Henry Fielding

Tracy Beaker

Jaqueline Wilson

Under the Net

Iris Murdoch

Utterly Me

Clarice Bean

War Horse

Michael Morpurgo

Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen J Gould

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte
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