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Year 8 Media Enhancement vs Gangnam Style

October 17, 2012

The Year 8 Media Enhancement class created their own version of PSY’s “Gangnam Style”. The original video had over 450 million views on YouTube – GANGNAM STYLE!

Ayrton Cable’s “Blood Phones” shortlisted for a prestigious award

May 20, 2013

Ayrton is Runner Up in Amnesty International’s “Young Photo Reporter of the Year!” A Ayrton’s “Blood Phones” photo highlighting the great suffering in the Congo mostly being caused by the profits from conflict minerals in our mobile phones came Runner Up in a competition which attracted over 2,500 entrants. At the Awards ceremony, Ayrton and [...]

Year 9 &10 trip to the Houses of Parliament

May 20, 2013

On Thursday the 16th of May a group of year 9 and 10 students went to see The Houses of Parliament in London. We took the train from Hampton Court to Waterloo station. When we arrived we still had some time left before our tour began so we decided to go for a walk on [...]

Music Department Concert

April 26, 2013

The 27th Music Department Concert took place in our school on 14th March. The excitement was palpable. Although the Nursery and Reception children were not involved this time, it being an evening concert (they had a separate Concert the week before ), the Main hall was packed with proud parents and visitors. All the performances [...]

Bugsy Malone in Pictures

April 4, 2013

Year 5 & 6 French Trip

March 26, 2013

We had a very smooth and safe journey with a chilly interlude at Calais. We were welcomed by our host French families and all the children left smiling. Long may it last…! Diaries Our evening was very exciting because we got to see how the French spend their evenings, what they eat and do. For [...]

Year 10 Trip to Paris

March 21, 2013

Some of the Year 10 students studying French GCSE went to Paris on a four days visit at the end of last half term (8-11 February). They were accompanied by Daniella and Caroline. It was a very cultural and fun school trip.We left school on Friday lunch time and made our way to St Pancras [...]

French Department now subscribed to ‘Geo Ado’

March 21, 2013

We have received our first French magazine subscription this morning! From now on, every month, we will receive ‘Géo Ado’, a magazine discussing current affairs for teenagers.

Richmond Youth Council and UK Youth Parliament

March 14, 2013

Mohak and Brynley voting in the Richmond Youth Council and UK Youth Parliament elections on Thursday 14th March. Aspiring politicians are invited to stand for election next year, The School Council elections will be held shortly. Turn out has reportedly varied throughout the day and exit polls are as yet inconclusive.

Easy as π

March 14, 2013

14th March, an ordinary day….ordinary? No! Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (or 3/14 in the month/day date format) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. We [...]

Ayrton joins Amnesty International UK Award Longlist

March 13, 2013

Amnesty International today unveiled the top ten in each of the categories for its Young Human Rights Reporter competition. Around 2,500 children from nearly 200 different schools from all four corners of the UK took part in the competition, which is run by Amnesty International UK, the Guardian Teacher Network and the secondary school magazine [...]

Canbury School 14th Invitation Junior Football Tournament

March 11, 2013

After some heavy defeats in 11 aside the 6 aside was a welcome change for the chosen squad. During the group stages HCH quickly got into the swing of things scoring quickly and taking control against weaker opposition. This quickly went against HCH when coming up against a dormant Canbury side, which went on to [...]

World Maths Day

March 8, 2013

Treasure hunts, saving the world from evil Aliens, solving murder mysteries, going shopping for fruit and vegetables, winning goats or cars…we certainly had a lot of fun on World Maths Day. For one day we exchanged the classroom for the theatre. With two different age groups doing different activities at any one time during Wednesday, [...]

Twickenham Trip and Tour

March 8, 2013

On the 5th of March a group of students went to the Twickenham rugby stadium in Twickenham. We went there on the bus and when we got there we were met by Daniela’s father, who took us on a tour around the stadium the places that he took us to were the very top row [...]

Boris Johnson: “Best school dinner I’ve ever had”

February 27, 2013

On the ITV News today, Boris Johnson commented on the quality of the food cooked by Hampton Court House’s Head Chef, Junior Lopes, at Reach Academy in Feltham. The Mayor said: “School dinners were never like this at Eton” and: “This is the best school dinner I’ve ever had.” We’re extremely proud of all our [...]

‘Remembrance’ by Francesca, Year 9

February 25, 2013

I wrote this song with Julian because one evening after all the cleaners had finished I had been recording with him the song from the play Lord of the Flies. He wrote that song for the role of Simon/Simone that we had performed in February. After we had finished recording Julian simply said “Why don’t [...]

Hampton Court House Leads the way in Computer Science

February 12, 2013

At the start of the 2011 school year, HCH changed its views on ICT and implemented a more computer science curriculum. This turned out to be the correct decision as in 2012 Michael Gove heavily criticised the national ICT curriculum and instructed schools across the country to start teaching more computing skills in the classroom. [...]

Theo Sixth Fastest Sixteen year old in UK

February 1, 2013

We’re delighted to announce that Theo, Year 11, on January 16th was ranked sixth fastest sprinter in the UK in the under 17′s category by his club Hercules in Wimbledon. The Club’s Newsletter announced: “Hercules Wimbledon seems to have discovered a talented young sprinter, Theo, who won his 60m race at an open indoor meeting [...]

Cloud Fall

January 24, 2013

Last term Year 5 embarked on an ambitious media enhancement project based on the pop-culture icon James Bond. Our Media Enhancement Programme is offered to all years from year 5 to 10, whereby the year group take two afternoons off in the year to produce a video, animation, documentary or other media related project. The [...]

Survive the City

January 24, 2013

On Monday some Year 11 and most of Year 10 went on the “Survive the city” trip. Although it was very snowy we still made it into the Museum of London. We were put into five groups with different companies. The companies were different from printers to jewellers. The first activity we did was looked [...]

Arts & Science Trip to The Hunterian Museum

January 24, 2013

Today year 9 went on an exciting day trip to the Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons and the Wellcome Collection in Eston. We drew and learnt about anatomy of the body and also of animals. We saw the impressive ‘Portrait of Death’ exhibition at the Welcome as well as the ‘Medicine Now’ [...]

Les Misérables Critique du Film

January 16, 2013

« Vendredi soir dernier nous sommes allés au cinéma à Kingston pour voir Les Misérables. Ce film est le dernier fait sur l’histoire du roman de Victor. Nous sommes allés voir ce film avec Dominique parce que on est en train de lire le livre en classe de français. Le film a commencé à 21heures [...]

Ayrton Meets the Agriculture Minister

January 10, 2013

On the 9th January, Ayrton, Year 6, took the next big step in his campaign to end factory farming by making meat and dairy producers label their products clearly to show how the animals used to make them were kept. Along with top officials from his campaign partner organisation “Compassion in World Farming”, Ayrton went [...]

Every HCH Student Exhibits at The ONE Exhibition

December 20, 2012

Monday 17th December saw The One Exhibition. An Art exhibition that hosted one piece of art work, from each one of our students, over one afternoon. The exhibition was a huge success and was seen before and after the Christmas Concert. Well done to all of our students for contributing to the exhibition and we [...]

[VIDEO] Kenya 2012

December 20, 2012

A beautiful 5 minute documentary of the HCH Kenya 2012 trip. Filmed and edited by Carl Turland (ICT & Computer Science).

Mark Gilenson

December 14, 2012

I look back at my time at HCH as one of the greatest catalysts for a great curiosity and positive doubtfulness born in me, and which drives me to this day. When I arrived at Hampton Court House, I realised that I was not being pushed into anything, but rather, thanks to the teachers’ vast [...]

Fundraising Club Raise £1,222 for Teens Unite

December 14, 2012

Today the Hampton Court House Fundraising Club presented a cheque to Ellie Pendred from Teens Unite for £1,222! Their presentation during the assembly showed all the events and hard work the club had put in to raise money for the charity in 2012. About Teens Unite Teens Unite Fighting Cancer is dedicated to improving the [...]

Kenya: An Eye Opening Experience

December 8, 2012

14 students and 4 adults. Terminal 4 on a Sunday afternoon at Heathrow airport. All ready to begin a journey of a lifetime in Kenya’s wilderness. A 9 hour plane journey to Nairobi was followed by a 4 hour drive to the camp site where they would stay for the next 2 nights. The camp [...]

Fundraising Christmas Bake-Sale

December 3, 2012

On the 30th November 2012 the Fundraising club held a Christmas themed bake-sale to raise money for Teens Unite. This was our last event for Teens Unite so we wanted to make it count. The sale was at morning and lunch break in the main hall. There was a selection of Christmas themed cakes biscuits, [...]

An Evening of Drama

November 29, 2012

The Main Hall became an ‘Evening of Drama’ last night as students and teachers put on a series of sketches and performances for the parents and friends. Thank you to all the children and staff involved. Images below by Martin, Year 9. (Click on the image below to show next next image)

Hay Day at Abbey Home Farm

November 29, 2012

It was a breezy day. My class and I were heading to Abbey Hoe Farm. We were greeted by a farmer with a bright-shiny smile. After a bumpy ride in a trailer we arrived in a colourful, neat and tidy field. Have you ever seen animals able to run free in a farm? If not, [...]

A Transforming Trip to the Farm

November 29, 2012

Can you smell the sweet hay and cow pat? I went to a farm a couple of days ago. There was a selection of poos. The piglets playing with the mud carves with the mother hiding from us. The cows were in the sun, sunbathing. The chickens were fighting. The cows were ripping the dew [...]

Abutralec School Photography

November 28, 2012

Year 9 ‘Tycoon in Schools’ entrepreneurs ‘Abutralec’ have shown great enthusiasm this week organising informal and alternative school photographs for the entire school. Proofs of the school photographs will be handed out this week. Please submit your orders by Friday to guarantee delivery of your prints before Christmas!

Hollywood Costume Exhibition at The V&A

November 22, 2012

Natalie, Caith and 15 students from years 7 to 11 enjoyed a memorable day at the V&A. We began the day looking around their impressive collections and were struck by the colossal Trajan Column! We had our lunch and then visited the fantastic Hollywood Costume exhibition. It was packed with lots of information about costume [...]

Drawing with Light

November 22, 2012

Today photography club have been drawing with light. We set our cameras on a long exposure and used iphones as the drawing tool. Try it yourself by putting your ISO on 200, your F-Stop on 22 and your shutter speed at 20” (seconds) -then draw!

Trip to the ‘Insitut Francais’

November 16, 2012

We went to see the movie entitled ‘La guerre des boutons’. It is a remake of original version dating back to 1960. It is the story of children in two different villages re-creating their own world and fighting for their integrity and supremacy. We then went on to have lunch in a local French Cafe [...]

Year 5 Life Skills

November 16, 2012

Children wrote about their Life Skills Workshop on Activities Day: “First we did a life skills game. We talked about doing a poster about our qualities, then we presented our posters to the class. Then it was lunch and we set the table, prepared our food ( cooked the night before), put decorations on the [...]

John Lewis Masterclass- Young Enterprise

November 16, 2012

The Young Enterprise company ‘e-Flex’ sent part of the marketing and sales teams to the John Lewis Masterclass in Kingston. They learnt about merchandising and customer service. Pictured from left to right, Myria, Emily, Sasha and Elliott won the merchandising competition!

Year 3 Story Factory Workshop

November 16, 2012

On Wednesday morning, Year 3 participated in a creative workshop called ‘Story Factory’. The children used images and cards to create a story. At the end we chose a title for our story and drew a picture to accompany it. Our first story was entitled ‘The little girl who loves to dream’ and the second [...]

Cooking Masterclass

November 16, 2012

On Wednesday, students in years 7 to 11 had a cooking masterclass with Junior (Chef) and Jose. They made fresh pasta in the morning to take home in the evening. They also cooked up some delicious ravioli with ricotta cheese and spinach. If that wasn’t enough they also baked apple cakes. Overall a great day [...]

Year 4 Story Factory and Forensic Science

November 16, 2012

During Activity Day, Year 4 participated to 2 workshops called “Story Factory” and “Forensic Science”. In the first workshop, the children created their own story from flashcards. They invented an original story called “What happens when your car breaks down”. In the afternoon they became detectives and had to look for clues to find the [...]

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