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True Love: A Short Film by Ethan Jenkins

by Natalie Kavanagh on May 4, 2012

‘True Love’ is a silent short film inspired by the 1920′s and Hollywood’s Golden Era. It was written, directed, produced and edited by year 11 photography student Ethan Jenkins, who has studied filmmaking on his photography GCSE course. Ethan will submit this incredible piece into the BPF Shorts Film Competition. To find out more about [...]

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Students Represent Zippit at Young Enterprise Final

by Ben Ruddin 3 May 2012 Business

On Wednesday 2nd May the Young Enterprise Area Final took place at Hampton School. Our student representatives were Carissa Ponan, as Managing Director of ‘Zippit’, the school’s 2012 Young Enterprise company and Myria Gehin, who had her ‘Achiever of the Year’ award presented during the evening. The teachers that accompanied the students were Caroline Gehin, [...]

Competition Success for Ayrton’s film “Animal Farm Law”

by HCH 1 May 2012 Charity

Ayrton Cable (Year 5) wrote and directed a film for a competition run by the Parliamentary Education Department. The competition is run nationwide, and is for children 11-16 years old. Entrants are invited to submit a short film outlining an idea for a new law, or an amendment to an existing one. Ayrton’s film, called [...]

Things are looking up for ‘Mad Giraffe’ in Young Enterprise Finals

by Ben Ruddin 30 April 2012 Business

Sunday saw the Young Enterprise Preliminaries at the HSBC Corporate suite in Hampton Wick. I was time keeping for the Richmond and Kingston Area presentations. Hampton Court House was commended for the quality of its report in the first year. An alumnus of HCH, Rupert Sadler, will be represented in the area finals with the [...]

Dancing on Ice: Serena wins Cardiff Open

by HCH 26 April 2012 Sports

Ice-skater Serena Howard (Year 7) continues to go from strength to strength. To add to a string of recent successes (including coming 1st in her class at the Trophee Romand International competition in Neuhatel, Switzerland), Serena won her class at the Cardiff Open last month and will now compete at a qualifying event for the [...]

Video Highlights: Spring Concert 2012

by HCH 23 April 2012 Events

The long awaited Spring Concert took place on Friday 30th March; those who had high expectations were not disappointed. The variety of music performed – jazz, classical, rock, pop, folk and music theatre – was truly impressive. The youngest performer was only three years old. It was clear, that the focus and dedicated practise paid [...]

25 Tickets for Olympic Games Announced

by Ben Ruddin 29 March 2012 Sports

With great fanfare….. the announcement was made! Hampton Court House has secured 25 tickets, for students, to the Olympic and Paralympic Games! Hampton Court House is on the Olympic cycling road race route, the start and finish to the time trial and the Torch is run to the Palace. HCHOCOG was also announced as the [...]

Exhibitionists: Art Teachers Launch London Galleries

by Natalie Kavanagh 29 March 2012 Art

Congratulations to Art Teacher Selwyn Leamy for having his painting ‘The Violet Hour’ exhibited in the ‘The Lynn Paitner-Stainers’ exhibition in the Mall Gallery, Trafalgar Square. Selwyn’s painting was chosen out of 1100 paintings and will be on show until 5th April. Also congratulations to Art Teacher Natalie Kavanagh for exhibiting her painting ‘Judah’ along [...]

Open-Air Science Show

by ralves 29 March 2012 Science

On Wednesday the members of the SETi club (Science club) performed a series of interesting demonstrations for the Lower School from Nursery to Year 2. Alex Lynch (Year 5) performed “Magic Liquids” by playing with acids, alkalis and indicators. Alex followed with the demonstration “Egg in a Bottle”. Bert from Year 6 helped the students [...]

Students vs Teachers: Checkmate!

by Richard James 27 March 2012 Chess

The day we’d been waiting for all term finally arrived, and in bright sunshine eight chess boards were set up outside the school for the termly match between the staff and the students. Keen to improve on their 4-4 draw last term, the staff had been getting in some extra practice and coaching the previous [...]

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