Harris Academy at Peckham

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Harris Academy at Peckham
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Motto	Meeting The Challenge, Realising The Rewards
Established	2003
Type	Academy
Principal	Vanessa Ray
Location	112 Peckham Road Peckham London SE15 5DZ England
LEA	London Borough of Southwark
Ofsted number	134225
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11 to 18
Houses	Ruby, Jade, Amber, Sapphire, Turquoise, Emerald
Website	http://www.peckhamacademy.southwark.sch.uk/
Coordinates: 51°28′22″N 0°04′27″W / 51.47271, -0.07415

Harris Academy at Peckham (also known as the Academy at Peckham or Peckham Academy) is a coeducational secondary school in the town of Peckham, London Borough of Southwark. The school specialises in Business Studies, ICT and the Performing Arts. (Drama, Dance & Music). The current head of the Performing Arts at the school is Mr Robert Lau, who also works for Ofsted.

Previously, the school was called Warrick Park until Lord Harris started the Harris Federation which sponsors numerous academies around South London. The school was refurbished and re-named to Harris at Peckham. In 2007 the school was re-named once again, this time to Harris Academy at Peckham, noting that the school was now a academy. This also resulted in a change of blazer logo.

Vanessa Ray took over the role of Principal at the school shortly after Peter Crook left the post for medical reasons.^{[citation needed]} Mrs Ray became Principal in 2007.

The school timetable currently consists of four periods a day, with the school starting at 8:40 and ending at around 15:40. But the new principal has planned to change the school timetable as of September 2008 from 8:40 until 15:30 but instead with five lessons a day, similar to other schools in the area, which will be made shorter. Talks have finished between the school and Southwark Council (who agreed to the new timetable) and now the school looks set to adapt to the new timetable in September 2008.

On December 19th 2007, Anita Johnson left her post as Vice Principal of the Academy to become a Headmistress at another school. Mr Steven Wilson has temporarily taken her place.

A lot of teachers left the school on 4 April 2008, just before the Easter Holidays. It is rumoured that it is because of Mrs Ray's more approached attitude to the school than the previous Principal, Mr Peter Crook.

In May 2008, the school had a lot of fights which forced Metropolitan Police to patrol in and outside the school during school hours.