NEWS

Thank You Action Amanda

A huge thank you to Action Amanda who are donating a percentage of profits from their Wash Your Hands song to our hospital school.

#HelloYellow

Our school staff are wearing yellow today to show their support for World Mental Health Day 2020. Follow the #HelloYellow hashtag!

Lavender Walk Students' RSPCA Fundraiser

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.

Read Helen's blog post on teaching during lockdown

One of our teachers, Helen, has written a blog post for Well at School on the challenges of teaching throughout lockdown. Read it here.

Help us Keep Vulnerable Pupils Learning During Covid

Our Aviva Crowdfunding page to help Keep Vulnerable Pupils Learning During Covid is now live! Please spread the word and donate, if you can! 

Marbling and Music

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.

Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Award

CCHS has achieved a Bronze award, the first stage of the Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Award. 

Music Mark School

We are delighted to be nominated as a Music Mark School.

Back to School

Checkout Well at School's blog post on helping to support children returning to school over the coming weeks.

Summer Activities and Revision

Checkout our list of resources and activities to help keep students busy and engaged over the summer holidays.

Please Sponsor Angela!

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!

Students win Writing Competition!

Congratulations to our students on Foulis Ward who won prizes (Westfield, Amazon and restaurant vouchers!) in a recent writing competition.

A year 10 student returns to school for their one allotted week

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:

Teaching and Learning in Partner schools during the COVID-19 pandemic

Read the reports from our European partener schools here

A letter to parents and carers

A letter to parents, students and carers of our community students.

Principal's News

Read the latest news from Janette Steel, our school Principal.

Sting surprises the Battersea Power Station Community Choir

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.

Crossing Borders - A Festival of Plates revisited

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. 

We Need Your Help!

We are currently redesigning of our Hospital School website and we need your help. Please could you take 5 minutes to answer 10 short questions about our current school website?
Here's the link to the questionnaire.

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)

Well at School has published a new section on supporting children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA).

Animation Takeover!

This week we are posting animations made by children over the years. Check them out on our social media.

Memory Lane

Here's two videos from 10 years ago. Our 20th celebrations and a video showing what we do in the school Have a look!

Well at School Newsletter

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Thank you Dr Max Denning, Chair of Governors

We are all sorry to say farewell to Dr Max Denning who is stepping down as Chair of Governors. Max has been a huge support to us and we would like to thank him for his tireless work for our school. David Mytton will now be the interim chair, and Ben Marshall will assume the vice-chair role. See below for a message from Max, and we wish him all the very best for the future.

What are children and young people's views about returning to school?

Phoenix Education Consultancy wrote a blog post for Well at School on the findings of their survey exploring children and young people's views about returning to school as lockdown is lifted. Read it here.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Well at School have published a new section on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, written by Prof. Esther Crawley, Dr Roxanne Parslow, Dr Maria Loades and Amberly Brigden at the Centre for Academic Child Health.

Karen returns

We are delighted that Karen has returned to help us clear our admin backlog!

Mental Health Awareness Week

It's Mental Health Awareness Week and the topic is Kindness.

COVID-19 for schools

Well at School have created a new COVID-19 resource for schools, with information and advice on learning from home, wellbeing, transition and research.

It's good to talk!

Two of our students, who have been missing each other, get to meet up again to say hello on a Teams video call, along with Lala, Faith, Deirdre and Charlotte.

All The Way

Our musician Brian has written a song called "All The Way" to bring encouragement to us all, in these difficult times.

Brian, teaching music online

Our teachers continue to work with some of our most vulnerable young people. Here we have our musician, Brian, teaching online from home.

Teaching Online From Home

Our teachers continue to work with some of our most vulnerable young people. Sometimes this means working from home. Here we have our principal, Janette, with her two assistants and John, our geography, computing and IT teacher.

Goodbye To Eva

Eva Leung came to work with us, at Lavender Walk, as a learning assistant on Thursday 19th March and finished on Friday 3rd April. This is probably one of the shorted stays that anyone has ever had with us, however in those short weeks Eva made the biggest impression. Eva came at a time when schools were closing, transport reducing, and society going into lockdown – in short the most challenging of times. This did not deter Eva, she got fully ‘stuck in’ to supporting the young people and their learning on the unit. She was a tremendous help to her teaching colleagues and just great to work with. Eva you made such a huge impression on everyone and we want to thank you for your commitment from Day 1. We wish you every success in your new job, they are so lucky to have you! Good luck and thank you!

Thank you Teachers!

Our teachers are continuing to work with some of our most vulnerable young people. Here we have Andy, Marie and Shaun at Lavender Walk.

Learning at Home

As many children and young people continue to access education at home Well at School has been researching useful resources that have been created to help parents, carers and teachers make learning away from school both accessible and engaging. We will be reviewing and adding to this resource list over the coming weeks.

Thank you teachers!

Our teachers are continuing to work with some of our most vulnerable children. Here we have Robin at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Helen and Marius at The Portland Hospital.

A message from Janette Steel, our Principal

At this time of year we would usually be celebrating spring through our Easter service, with children singing, reading poetry, and sharing their art work, this always brings a joy to our hearts, there is a sense of growth and refreshment. However, now we are all in a different place, some of us quite alone, missing our wider families and concerned about the future. A lonely and worrying time for us all, I want to assure you that we will be with you to share any concerns you have about your child's education, their next step in their journey to college, and to support them in assessing their levels for their exams.

Art Takeover

Over the next few weeks we will be filling our social media with art created by children in hospital.
Follow us and checkout the #arttakeover!

Supporting Learning at Home

Well at School have put together information from trusted sources that parents and carers will find useful for supporting learning at home in the weeks ahead.

Well at School - advice and guidance

The latest advice and guidance for schools, parents and carers during the Coronavirus pandemic from Well at School.

Coronovirus Update

CCHS is following up-to-date national guidance regarding Coronavirus. The most up-to-date guidance from the NHS can be found here: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us.

World Book Day Celebrations

We celebrated World Book Day by searching for Paddington Bear in deepest, darkest Peru. At Chelsea, star of the show was primary pupil Sienna - dressed in a wonderful homemade costume as Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree. Staff love to dress up too - Jags as Harry Potter, Charlotte as the clockwork clown from Amelia Jane, Deirdre as the bunny from Amelia Jane and Jonny as a character from a pupil, Lauren's, own story "The Possessed Teacher". Children also designed some Roald Dahl character masks and made Roald Dahl themed pottery, as Roald Dahl is our theme for the term.

Thank you Sainsburys!

Congratulations Michelle!

Congratulations to Michelle who has officially been recognized as the fastest South African woman in her category on two wheels!

Denise, our No Boundaries Award winner!

Congratulations to Denise for winning the No Boundaries Award for the amazing work she does teaching cricket to the children and young people at the hospital school.

Cake Sale

A huge thank-you to our wonderful FCCHS volunteers who organised a cake sale for our school charity.

Visit from Hungarian partner school

We were delighted to welcome students and teachers from our Hungarian Erasmus partner schools from our Sparks - Wellbeing project.

World Mental Health Day #cchswmd

Follow our special World Mental Health Day hashtag #cchswmd to see what our students have been doing.

Mental Healthcare in Young People and Young Adults

We need a holistic approach to the health, education and care needs of all young people. Read Well at School's review of the recommendations of this new report.

Congratulations from the Mayor of RBKC

We were delighted to receive this letter from the Mayor of RBKC.

Welcome back, from Janette, our Principal

Welcome back to all the students and teachers, we have had a great welcome from Lavender Walk who have missed the teachers hugely - and greeted them with bribes of chocolate to make them promise they would not go away again!

At the other hospitals, there has been a holiday programme each day staffed by the learning mentors, teaching assistants, our famous artist of course and also we welcomed back two of our students who have worked through the school holidays with great energy and verve bringing much fun and laughter to the summer.  Thank you all so very much, from the reports from the wards and especially Collingham it is clear your ideas and presence supported the nursing team.

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IT Support Engineer vacancy

We have a vacancy for an IT support engineer. Are you looking for a new challenge in a creative and unpredictable environment?  Would you like to put your advanced IT skills to good use in our hospital school covering 7 sites in west London?  Are you interested in and fascinated by IT systems?  

Well at School Newsletter

Read our latest newsletter.

Lavender Walk Cinema Trip

The pupils at the newest addition to the Chelsea Hospital School, Lavender Walk, Adolescent Unit enjoyed their own private screening of Men in Black: International, in the CW+ MediCinema at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, on Friday 12th July.

Thanks Lush!

A big thank you to @LushVictoria for bringing their magic to our hospital school. They ran an amazing workshop for our children over the summer holidays, teaching us how to make blackberry and treasure chest bath-bombs! Thanks, Lush, you are amazing!

Volunteer driver wanted

We are looking for one or two experienced minibus driver volunteers, with a clean driving license. If you have some time to spare on Wednesdays (9.30am - 12.00) and/or Fridays from (12-4pm) we would love to hear from you. MiDAS training provided. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Tel: 0203 315 8672 /3

30 year celebrations!

Janette's speech at our celebration of 30 years of the Chelsea Community Hospital School. Thank you to everyone who came along to join us in our celebrations and an extra special thank you to Nissa who organised the whole event. :)

New partnership with Adopt a School chef

We are delighted to announce our new partnership with The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts’ Adopt a School Trust. Chef Ashley Marsh, will deliver food education sessions to young people at Lavender Walk, our adolescent mental health unit. Read here for all the details.

For the love of bravery

Listen to Helen talking about some of the great work we have been doing to to engage children who have medical needs in education.
Please vote for her here!