Hampton Court House

A Dream of a Production

by Kathryn Sumner 22 March 2012 Drama

Last Friday night, 16 March 2012, Year 6 enjoyed a rollicking evening at the Lyric, Hammersmith’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was a roller coaster of an evening, with food fights, super hero fairies bursting through fake walls, musical mash-ups and delightfully daft stand-up style mechanicals attempting to rehearse a ‘meta-play if you [...]

A (Biased) View on Occupy London

by Harry Watkins 22 March 2012 Rambles

Occupy London. It is truly an ode to the timeless phrase: “History repeats itself”. I had chosen it for an “Activities’ Day” at Hampton Court House, following a tour of the BBC Television Centre. However, something seemed to ring a metaphorical bell with the Occupy London protest. This is the 60′s all over again! Oh [...]

Lord of the Flies: Review

by Guy Holloway 14 March 2012 Drama

The school came together this week for a spectacular production of Lord of the Flies – a dramatisation of William Golding’s famous fable of children descending into savagery on a desert island. Around seventy members of the school community were involved in some way – either as a cast member or in the painting of [...]

Our Trip to the National Army Museum

by Romane Lollichon 9 March 2012 School Trips

On wednesday 29 february 2012, it was the activity day for Hampton Court House. Year 5 went to the National Army Museum. I would like to explain the reasons for going into the War Horse exhibition: First of all, my English teacher Kathryn suggested that we read a book called “War Horse”. This book is [...]

New School Minibus provided by The Friends of HCH

by Guy Holloway 27 February 2012 Friends of HCH

NEW SCHOOL MINIBUS: Provided by the fund-raising efforts of The Friends of Hampton Court House. We are delighted with the arrival of our new 17-seat minibus. Sleek and elegant, the minibus is already turning heads on the road. When did you last see a black minibus? Of course, we would not be Hampton Court House [...]

Raw War

by Alec Sutula 27 February 2012 School Trips

Upon the day my class and I were going to the Imperial War Museum, we were going to take a train into the city and that was a lot different than Texas fieldtrips because we normally took a bus. It was my first time going to the Museum and I could not wait to start [...]

Half Term Play Review – Lord of the Flies

by Shen Hung Guan 10 February 2012 Drama

Our Headmaster Guy Holloway decided that our half term play should be Lord of the Flies based on the book by William Golding and also based on the book by William Golding and also based on his experience in his life. It is about a group of school boys crashing into an island after World [...]

Get out of my Facebook: Social Media Forum for Parents

by Guy Holloway 9 February 2012 Social Media

One of our greatest challenges is to ensure that our children are equipped (technically and emotionally) to use the internet safely. You may have noticed from your child’s Almanack that the evening of Monday 27 February (7pm) has been set aside for you to engage with the School on this subject. The evening is open [...]

Young Enterprise: The Mid-Year Briefing

by Ben Ruddin 8 February 2012 Business

Young Enterprise Mid-Year Briefing Marat Guysin, Alyssia Everest and Adam Barrs (below) represented Hampton Court House at Tiffin Girls School on a cold Tuesday evening to listen to talks on finance, reporting and stall merchandising. They also encountered an Old Courtier (OC) Rupert Sadler who is now involved with the Young Enterprise group at Kingston [...]

“Why do I have to learn spreadsheets? I’m never going to use them.”

by Carl Turland 4 February 2012 Articles

I hear students say something similar to the above quote so often. In the past I have struggled to give an answer that I have been entirely happy with. I have tried the poor parent answer, “because you have to,” all the way to trying to place a way the student may use spreadsheets in [...]

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