The summer holidays are here but we will be running a Holiday Programme across some of our school sites. Our fabulous team of teaching assistants, artists, and musicians will provide fun activities in our schoolrooms.The holiday programme is funded by our charity FCCHS. Our teaching team will be back on Thursday 2nd September.
Help support our Crowdfunder to help raise funds for complimentary reflexology sessions for patients at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Please donate whatever you can afford; every donation, large or small, is most welcome.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/soothing-hands-zonal-therapy
Over the past four weeks students at Collingham and Lavender Walk have been making music with musicians Jackie, Dan, Luke and Hermione.
Read Well at School's latest blog post reflecting back over the recent school year Read it here
We have a vacancy for an English teacher who is confident with teaching GCSE & A Levels. A chance to work in a challenging and unpredictable environment.
Young people at Lavender Walk wrote thank you messages to nurses and support workers on international nurses' day.
Together we raised £1470 to help support Cissy train to be a teacher in Uganda. Thank you to everyone who made this possible through their generosity. This is the most wonderful success for Cissy, we are all so very delighted for her, another story of how despite facing difficult medical problems it is still possible to achieve your life goals.
Help us fundraise to support Cissy train to be a primary school teacher in Uganda.
At Collingham we have been working on creating an outdoor classroom, complete with it's own pond.
Our school has been recognised with a Mayor’s Award in the category of Local Community Organisation for our work supporting the educational, emotional and mental well-being of chronically and terminally ill children in the RBKC borough. You can watch the ceremony here at 7pm on Thursday 25th March.
Read Classic FM's article on our music project with MiSST starting at the Bayswater Centre.
Read this lovely letter from Maria who spent time with us as a student.
A huge thank-you to the Brompton Fountain for our five new laptops!
As schools welcome back most students we have two requests. Read about them here.
Can you guess which book characters our staff dressed up as?
We had a fantastic World Book Day today. Ava chose to dress up as Alice in Wonderland, Deirdre was the Cat from 'Room on the Broom' and Charlotte was from 'A Day at the Beach'! The highlight of the day was when was Robin joined our session dressed as Super Burrito! A great day filled with stories, poems and laughter. Happy World Book Day 2021!
Our School Lottery is now live and there are some impressive prizes to be won (£500 bike voucher and a chance to win £25,000 - if your ticket matches all 6 numbers). Please support our school charity and buy a ticket today.
The sun is shining, showing up my rain and mud-streaked windows - surely there has been time for a spring clean? Thank goodness the relentless rain causing parks to be sodden has lifted. Even my dog, Dolores, began to run and hide when the lead came to take her for yet another freezing cold walk - yes, we have warmth, light and some freedom to look forward to.
Read our new section on Anxiety Based School Avoidance (ABSA), over on Well at School
We are really excited to be starting a music project with the team at MiSST (The Music in Secondary Schools Trust). Here's Learning Mentor Lala, with one of our students - all ready to learn to play their new violins!
Staff at Lavender Walk celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week.
The theme this year is Express Yourself. Check here for resources for parents and carers.
Congratulations to Tatyana our Learning Assistant who is featuring in the Changing Faces #PledgeToBeSeen campaign with Sleek MakeUP, challenging out-dated beauty stereotypes and positively representing people with visible differences.
Our English teacher got a puncture cycling in to work this morning. Luckily it was near to where our Music teacher was working from home - puncture fixed! Now watch out for that ice!
Check out our list of resources to help parents and carers support children learning from home.
Paul, our science and maths teacher is also a musician, and he just released an album with his band, Araluen. You can hear it here: And There It Is
We are currently looking to recruit a new member to our school governing body. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. More details here.
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We have set up Amazon Smile for our school charity. If you use Amazon please use our link for your purchases. It doesn't cost you any extra but the school charity FCCHS gets 0.5% each time! Thank you.
Checkout the latest blog post "What can schools learn?" on our Well at School website.
Listen to our Xmas Musical Medley with special guests!
We've got two Xmas videos this year, a reflection on the year and a musical medley, enjoy!
As the school term and 2020 draw to a close it seems a good time to stop and reflect. Read our blog post on Well at School.
Sit down and watch the our video 2020 at CCHS.
Season's Greetings from all of us!
Checkout our Christmas activity ideas over on our Sparks Wellbeing Erasmus website: http://sparkswb.eu/christmas-craft-cooking-kindness/
Well at School has compiled a list of resources to help parents and carers support learning from home.
Check out the new children's work on SPARKS, our Erasmus wellbeing project involving six schools from England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, and Poland.
We are wearing odd socks today for #AntiBullyingWeek to show we are all #unitedagainstbullying #OddSocksDay
Bully Free, our participatory art project, is a creative activity you can use with your students for #antibullyingweek www.bullyfree.org.uk
Read our new post on Staff Wellbeing over at Well at School.
We are all so proud of Tatyana, our learning assistant, who recently presented at the evidence session for the Women and Equalities Committee enquiry into body image. Watch the session here:
Wishing you all a very relaxing half-term break. We have staff training days on Fri 23rd Oct and Mon 2nd Nov and so will re-open again on Tuesday 3rd Nov. We look forward to seeing you then!
A huge thank you to Action Amanda who are donating a percentage of profits from their Wash Your Hands song to our hospital school.
Our school staff are wearing yellow today to show their support for World Mental Health Day 2020. Follow the #HelloYellow hashtag!
Can you help the students of Lavender Walk make a difference? They have decided to adopt the RSPCA as their chosen charity and help raise money to support the work that it does. The RSPCA is the leading UK animal welfare charity. They work to prevent harm and cruelty to animals. They also rescue, rehabilitate and rehomes animals in need. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much. Every donation, large or small, helps.
One of our teachers, Helen, has written a blog post for Well at School on the challenges of teaching throughout lockdown. Read it here.
Our Aviva Crowdfunding page to help Keep Vulnerable Pupils Learning During Covid is now live! Please spread the word and donate, if you can!
Students at Lavender Walk have been taking part in a Marbling and Music workshop with artist Chloe Cooper and musician Jackie Walduck. Take at look at what they've been creating. We hope to post some of their musical compositions next week.
CCHS has achieved a Bronze award, the first stage of the Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Award.
We are delighted to be nominated as a Music Mark School.
Checkout Well at School's blog post on helping to support children returning to school over the coming weeks.
Checkout our list of resources and activities to help keep students busy and engaged over the summer holidays.
One of our teachers, Angela, will be doing a charity parachute jump in aid of Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis on 15th August 2020. If you have any money spare please sponsor her and support this vital charity!
Congratulations to our students on Foulis Ward who won prizes (Westfield, Amazon and restaurant vouchers!) in a recent writing competition.
Read a year 10 student's account of their experience of returning to school for their one allotted week this summer term. Read it on Well at School here:
Read the reports from our European partener schools here
A letter to parents, students and carers of our community students.
Read the latest news from Janette Steel, our school Principal.
Our lovely reflexologist Sarah is in the choir at Battersea Power Station and this is their virtual choir with a Sting! Extraordinary Sarah is working with patients virtually using her special style of reflexology.
In 2012 we took part in a collaborative art project with students from UNWRA schools in Gaza. We were then delighted when Jehan and Mohammed, their teachers from Gaza, came to stay with us in London to help finalise the project.
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