Eid al-Fitr celebrations

Our students applied their mehndi designs on one another.

World Earth Day

Otis made a fabulous poster to raise awareness of World Earth Day. He added suggestions of small actions that we could all do to help the planet.

Red Nose Day Activities

One of our students had a great time designing a fantastic red nose day t-shirt, while the secondary students enjoyed making red nose day cupcakes. 

Science Week

Science Week activities at St Mary's. 

WORLD BOOK DAY

Students at Lavender Walk drew the letters WBD for World Book Day.

World Book Day at Lavender Walk

Here we have The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kung Fu Panda, The Queen of Hearts, St Patrick and Long John Silver. Yes, it's World Book Day!

HARMONY

One of our students at Lavendar Walk recorded this improvised duet on Rav drums. It's called HARMONY by SJ and MD.

LGBT+ History Month

To celebrate LGBT+ History Month students at Lavender Walk made these inspirational posters.

Elwyn's Art

Elwyn is a young artist who has been attending the hospital school at Brompton Hospital. He loves to draw animals and we have exhibited his work outside the schoolroom.

Tiger Calendar and Mickey Mouse

Elwyn made a Tiger calendar to celebrate the 'Year of the Tiger 2022' and Josh drew an excellent drawing of Mickey Mouse.

The Sound Collector

One of the primary students from the Brompton has written her own poem based on The Sound Collector, written by Roger McGough.

The Year of the Tiger

Celebrating Chinese New Year at St Mary's Hospital.

Cookery with Ashley at Bayswater

Students at Bayswater had a fantastic cookery session with Ashley from the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts. We look forward to the next session!

Rainbow

A student at St Mary's painted this lovely rainbow picture!

Tudor House

A student at St Mary's spent time learning all about life in Tudor times and made her very own Tudor house.

City of London Sinfonia at Lavender Wal…

Students at Lavender Walk have been working with musicians from City of London Sinfonia (CLS) in an online series of workshops exploring loops, repetition, and sequences using music technology, online...

Black History Month at the Brompton

During Black History Month, the children at the Brompton engaged in different activities, one of which was a collaborative art project learning about the continent of Africa.

Diwali celebrations

Pupils at LW made biscuits and iced them in Rangoli patterns for Diwali. Students at BW made Barfi and Ladoos which are Indian sweets to celebrate Diwali.

Wellbeing Alphabet

Students at Lavender Walk made this fantastic Wellbeing Alphabet. Take a look!

Leopard Mask

A student at St Mary's made this fantastic leopard mask using Modroc!

Rosa Parks

As part of Black History Month, a student at St Mary's researched Rosa Parks. This is the fantastic piece of work she then produced!

African Homes

Two primary students from the Brompton have created their own African homes inspired by the artist Esther Mahlangu who used geometric patterns.

Respect

One of our students wrote a poem called 'Respect' in response to Benjamin Zephania's poem 'The British'. It was written to honour Black History Month.

Be Free

Tayden wrote this wonderful poem 'Be Free' for Black History Month.

Chocolate Cupcakes

Students at the Brompton Hospital school made delicious chocolate cupcakes during a DT lesson.

Careers in Palaeontology

One of the students at the Brompton hospital had an exciting virtual careers talk with Emma Bernard, the curator of Fossil Fish at the Natural History Museum, London.

The Eyes

The young people were very excited in the preceding weeks and learnt all about the structure and functions of the parts of the eye. On the day, only the dedicated...

Summer Club at the Brompton

Have a look at some of the fabulous work from students attending our school holiday Summer Club at the Brompton Hospital.

Congratulations to our Computer Science …

One of our students received a BBC Micro:bit for attending regular programming lessons and producing excellent pieces of work.

The Marriage of Figaro

Students enjoyed a workshop with Opera Holland Park. Next week students and staff will go to see the performance of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro".

Nature Diorama for MHAW

For Mental Health Awareness Week the children designed their perfect nature window and created it as a diorama.

Lung Dissection

This week we looked at how some key organs fit together. The lungs and how the trachea is connected to each lobe as well as how the lungs are connected...

Heart Dissection

Students at LW examined and dissected hearts. It was fascinating to see the arteries and veins and especially the valves. Everyone got involved, even the doctors 🙂 Lots of fun...

Ancient Egypt

One of our students at St Mary’s is learning about the Ancient Egyptians. He made some canopic jars, turned himself into a pharaoh and wrote in hieroglyphics.

Exhibition of students' art and music

An exhibition of work by young people from Lavender Walk is on display in the entrance hall to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital until August 15th. Students worked with Jackie Walduck...

My Box

One of our students wrote this amazing poem in their English lesson.

Football and a picnic in the park

As lockdown restrictions are relaxed, students were able to take advantage of the sunshine for football and a picnic in the park.

Wellbeing Walk

Wellbeing walk with our students this afternoon. Tree hugging has been a part of relaxing and calming routines connecting with nature.

LGBT+ History Month Poems

Celebrating difference in LGBT+ History month the young people wrote poems based on some of the difficulties members of the LGBT+ Community have faced in the past - using Maya...

LGBT+ History Month 2022 Badge competiti…

This is our winning design for the LGBT+ History Month 2022 Badge competition as voted for by the MDT team, Nursing team, Teaching team and lovely Young People at Lavender...

Music with City of London Sinfonia

Students at Lavender Walk are working with musicians from City of London Sinfonia (CLS) in a series of online workshops using music technology, online links, and live instruments to create...

What the Ladybird Heard

One of our students read “What the Ladybird Heard” made a 3D Ladybird and then explained what happened in the story.

World Religion Day

Students at Lavender Walk made some wonderful posters describing the world's religions - take a look!

Pointilism at St Mary's

One of our students has been studying Pointilism at St Mary's Hospital, and here she is putting it into practice.

Three Kings’ Day

Students at St Mary's Hospital have been learning about Three Kings’ Day.

CLS Music Project at Lavender Walk

Students at Lavender Walk are working with musicians Matt, Helen and Gawain from City of London Sinfonia (CLS) in an online series of workshops responding to Bach’s music, exploring loops,...

New Christmas card design available as a…

A Christmas card designed by one of our primary children at the Brompton Hospital. This card is also now available as an eCard helping us fundraise for our school charity.

Diwali Lamps

Students at Lavender Walk made these beautiful Diwali lamps to celebrate the Hindu "festival of lights" Diwali.

Black History Month

Students at Lavender Walk have been celebrating Black History Month by researching the lives and achievements of Wendie Renard, Evelyn Dove, Florence Griffith Joyner, Stuart Hall, James Baldwin, and Paul...

Students' World Mental Health Day Poster…

Young people at Lavender Walk made these posters for World Mental Health Day 2020, having their say on how they would like Mental Health to be de-stigmatised!

Marbling and Music Project

Students at Lavender Walk explored the possibilities of making music and marbling with artist Chloe Cooper and musician Jackie Walduck. We held an exhibition showing their artworks and listened to...

The Lavender Walk Art Gallery

Check out the wonderful artwork made by students on Lavender Walk during the recent lockdown.

Making plastics and polymers

Young people at Lavender Walk along with our Community students learnt about plastics and polymers. We went on to make our own biodegradable plastics. We first used milk for the...

The Great Cake Bake

This week, students at Lavender Walk baked gorgeous gooey marshmallow and chocolate chip cookies, perfect cheesy cheese scones and decadent chocolate cake. They  are all natural bakers and very talented...

My Special Object

One of our students wrote a lovely piece about an object that is special to her during her time in hospital.

Scratch Painting

This painting was made by one of our students at Lavender walk using a scratching technique. First the paper was completely covered in coloured wax crayons, then a mixture of...

Bake off at Lavender Walk

Students at Lavender Walk have baked up a treat this week making and icing delicious fairy cakes, tropical mango cheese cakes and baking scrumptious caramel brownies! Well done, excellent effort and...

Blackout Poetry

Young people at Lavender Walk marked National Writing Day by creating "Blackout Poetry", using their Art and English skills. 

Book Spine Poetry

Young people at Lavender Walk marked National Writing Day by creating "Book Spine" poetry. They have some fantastic atmosphere and tone - poetry really can be found everywhere!

Windrush poems

Students at Collingham wrote these wonderful Windrush poems after researching the history of the Windrush generation.

A Walk In Paris

Judith popped by to see Ava in her online lesson with Faith and Charlotte today. We have been learning about landmarks around the world and Judith had chosen the perfect...

A dog, a cat, two guinea pigs, a chamele…

Today Ava was very happy to see our lovely head teacher, Janette, in her online lesson. She was also delighted to meet Janette's animals - a dog, a cat, two...

Poetry with The Fire Poet

Children had a fantastic online poetry session with our 'poet in residence' Philip Wells aka The Fire Poet.

Kindness Cookies

At Collingham we have been celebrating Mental Health Awareness Week. Our young people designed gift bags and made delicious 'kindness' cookies to give to their friends and family.

Kindness is Saving the Dolphins!

Aleeza age 7 said “Kindness is saving the dolphins!”

Thank You Notes

The theme for Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 is Kindness. Students at Lavender Walk wanted to do something nice for all those who work with them so they wrote "thank...

Kindness Awareness Posters

Students at Lavender Walk made kindness awareness posters for Mental Health Awareness Week. Exploring the science they discovered that acts of kindness produce a number of hormones in the body...

3D Snowman

One of our secondary students, Oli, taught himself how to use Blender as part of ICT. Check out what he had to say...

More music with Brian

Online music sessions with Brian is always popular with our younger students. The teachers enjoy it too! 

Music with Brian

Children have a joint music session with Brian every Thursday afternoon. Today we drew pictures and created shapes with our bodies to become the song's characters. We also pulled funny...

Starting the day with a Joe Wicks PE wor…

Here is one of our students with Lala our Learning Mentor, starting the day with a Joe Wicks, PE workout. We now have a new space outside the hospital for our community...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Faith and Charlotte teaching Ava online. We have been reading William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and here is Ava telling me some of her favourite characters, as Faith writes them down....

Online cookery session

One of our students made Minion Cupcakes, working online from home with our teachers Rachel and Marie.

Online science session

Daphne teaches an online science session with one of our budding scientists.

Bake Off eat your heart out!

Students at Lavender Walk have been busy baking - take a look at their amazing Birthday Cake creations!

Earth Day 2020

One of our students, who is learning from home, had fantastic ideas of how we could protect the environment and look after the planet. She made this poster after learning about...

Thank you NHS

Before Easter, the young people at Collingham made posters to say thank you to all the key workers, for their hard work and dedication during the current health crisis. 

Science Week at St Mary’s

We celebrated Science Week at St Mary’s Hospital.

Recycled Bottle Cap Art Exhibition at Ro…

In celebration of Recycle week back in September, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea hosted a sustainable travel bottle cap art competition for schools. The winning entries including 3D...

Natural History Museum trip

We visited the Natural History Museum and saw the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. We also went on a tour of the museum's newly updated Museum Gardens.

Music project with Wigmore Hall

Students worked with musicians from Wigmore Hall Learning ensemble on a five-week music project. They showcased their work in a public performance at CW Hospital and a special performance for...

City of London Sinfonia Workshop

Just before the Christmas break, City of London Sinfonia, featuring sound artist Gawain Hewitt and Ruth Molins trombonist, along with Fiona Lambert their Director of Participation, delivered a workshop for...

Planet Collage

A pupil at St Mary’s did this brilliant collage of the planets in our solar system.

I will bring you clothes

Rabia took part in a poetry workshop with Philip the Fire poet and wrote this beautiful poem. Well done Rabia!

Spreading festive cheer!

Today we said thanks to the emergency services for all the fantastic work they do!

Jingle Bells Medley

Students created a Jingle Bells Medley - have a listen!

Be Brave, Be Creative, Be Happy, Be You!

One of our pupils at St Mary’s created a well-being T-Shirt to inspire others.

Well-being T-Shirt

One of our pupils at St Mary’s created a well-being T-Shirt to inspire others.

Children in Need at the Brompton

The students at the Royal Brompton hospital school designed bookmarks, keyrings, t-shirts and canvas bags which were sold to raise money for Children in Need. The students handcrafted all items,...

Final Great British CCHS Bake Off

For our final Great British CCHS Bake Off at the Brompton, students enjoyed making scrumptious Chocolate cakes. Well done to all the fantastic students who participated in baking activities during the Bake...

Diwali celebrations

Pupils at Lavender Walk joined in with Diwali celebrations by creating their own Salt Dough Divas and decorating them. We lit battery candles to see them in their full glory!

Making bread rolls

Students at Lavender Walk make their own bread rolls with the help of chef Ashley Marsh. from The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts’ Adopt a School Trust. 

Danish Pastry Bake Off

For pastry week as part of the Great British CCHS Bake Off at the Brompton, students at the Brompton decided to make chocolate and cinnamon raisin Danish pastries.The students were...

Mental Health Awareness Posters

Students made these powerful posters for Mental Health Awareness Day. Check out what they have to say...

Positive Pebbles

Students wrote positive messages on pebbles for World Mental Health Day and left them in places for people to find.

Great British CCHS Bake Off at the Bromp…

Students at the Brompton Hospital have been learning about mental health this week. For the festival week as part of the Great British CCHS Bake Off at the Brompton, we decided...

Singing makes you feel good!

Some of our students recorded themselves singing, have a listen. There's plenty of research that proves that singing benefits our health and well being, e.g. see Sing Up.

Great British CCHS Bake Off at the Bromp…

This week Daniel, Jack and Woon took part in the Great British CCHS Bake Off at the Brompton. The theme was dessert week! Taking inspiration from the Great British Bake...

Pineapple Upside-Down Cakes

This week Daniel, Logan and Maria took part in the Great British CCHS Bake Off at the Brompton.

Dimna Juda

Students listened to and discussed Dimna Juda, a Macedonian folk song. Then they recorded their own version. They only had half an hour to finish it - have a listen!

Great British CCHS Bake Off at the Bromp…

This week Maria, Lily and Nikita took part in the Great British CCHS Bake Off at the Brompton.

Great British Bake Off at Brompton

Students at CCHS Brompton will be recreating recipes following the Great British Bake Off theme. This week is biscuit week and three Year 7 and 8 students at the Brompton...

Promoroacă

Students in the Blue group learned the Romanian tune Promoroacă (frost). They decided to first play it backwards and then forwards! Have a listen.

A future sustainable home

Have a look at the wonderful project that Nathalie, one of our secondary students, has been working on in her spare time at home. Nathalie has designed and made a...

Lavender Music

A piano composition 'Nocturne in Eb', a Rav drum duet 'The Chat' and a ukulele version of 'Break Even'.Just some of the amazing music that's been taking place at Lavender...

Healthy Cooking

The young people at Lavender Walk have been developing healthy eating habits and an interest in food by looking at food provenance and sustainability, as well as developing knowledge, skills...

Wigmore music project

Musicians from Wigmore Hall have been working on a music project with our students at Brompton and St Mary's Hospital.

Pride Celebrations!

Students celebrated Pride by making posters, banners and singing - have a look at their amazing work! And there was Pride cake!

RE Trips

Our students have had the pleasure of experiencing three different places of worship this summer term. We visited a Buddhist Wat where pupils were able to share in the mediation...

Blackout Poetry

The young people at Lavender Walk have been experimenting with language this week for National Writing Day 2019. We played poetic devices noughts and crosses, metaphor mayhem, and created some...

Twinkle Twinkle

Sukhjot worked really hard learning the melody to Twinkle Twinkle on the piano. Take a listen!

The Queen's Knickers

After reading 'The Queen's Knickers', Isabel carefully designed a pair that the Queen should wear if she has to choose a new crown. She then wrote her own letter to the...

Chinese Gardens

Students took part in a workshop with Steve from the V&A. They learned about toys from history and had the opportunity to make their own Chinese Gardens using a range...

Collingham Gardeners

The students at Collingham have been making use of our recently installed raised beds in the front garden to plant carrots, parsnips, beetroots, broccoli, cabbage, peas and broad beans. They...

A Message to You

Blue and Green group students listened to and then played "A Message to You" by The Specials. They only had 15 minutes to rehearse! Checkout the message!

History revision posters

Students have been making history revision posters - take a look!

Three Little Birds

We learned Bob Marley's song Three Little Birds. Take a listen!

Revision posters

Students have been making more revision posters - take a look!

Fashion School

Two students went to 'The Fashion School' where they took part in a sewing workshop.

Hormone revision

Students have been making revision posters - here's one all about Hormones.

Sensory computer

Our students loved testing out the new interactive, sensory computer here at St Mary’s.

Canvas Bag

This week in our 'songs about climate change' we learned Tim Minchin's song Canvas Bag. Have a listen!

Research Posters

Year 9 students have made research posters for History. Take a look...

Reduce Reuse Recycle

This week in our 'songs about climate change' we learned Jack Johnson's song The 3Rs. Have a listen!

Cookery with Ashley

Students at Lavender Walk had a fantastic cookery session with Ashley from the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts. We look forward to the next session!

The Truth Comes Out

In music, we are exploring songs about climate change. Listen to us play Corb Lund's song 'The Truth Comes Out'.

St James Infirmary Blues

This term in music we studied the Blues. Have a listen to our students' recordings of a Blues classic! 

Ceramics by Jaz

We are so pleased to be able to showcase these beautiful ceramics by Jaz, who is one of our very talented students. For many weeks now, Jaz has been developing...

Science Week

Children enjoyed testing which objects would float and which would sink and making their own luminous lava lamps.

Fire Station Trip

One of our students had a very exciting trip to the fire station. He was able to have a practise spraying the hose, explore the fire engine, try on some...

World Book Day Quiz

The young people at Lavender Walk celebrated World Book Day with a Bumper Quiz complete with prizes (a favourite was copies of ‘Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials’).

We celebrated International Women’s Day

To celebrate International Women’s Day we studied Frida Kahlo in our art class. Our students used stencils and paint to produce some great artwork!

Pancake Day

On Shrove Tuesday, students at the Brompton made cinnamon pancakes topped with banana and syrup and chocolate pancakes topped with marshmallows and chocolate chips.

World Book Day at St Mary's

Teachers celebrate World Book Day at St Mary's schoolroom.

Pancake Day at St Mary’s

  We made pancakes - and then we ate them!

Peace means a lot!

While discussing entering the Fourth Plinth school awards competition during our art class at Chelsea and Westminster, we turned to philosophy to evaluate what is important. Mikael analyses his artwork while...

A Day in the life

Students recorded their version of A Day in the Life by The  Beatles

Teddy's 'Making Your Mark' Animation

Teddy has been working on our Making Your Mark project. He drew three pictures based on his marks to make a beginning, middle and end of a story. He then...

Get Back

50 years ago The Beatles performed 'Get Back' on a rooftop in central London. Today students performed their version - check it out!

Lisou printed silk scarf competition win…

We are so pleased to announce that one of our students, Caitlin, has been selected as a winner for the Lisou scarf design competition!

Ava's masterpieces!

In our art classes we have been learning about the techniques and styles of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. We focussed on Monet and Van Gogh.

Pop Art!

Take a look at Muntaha's Pop Art artwork!

I Feel Fine

Jess, Nancy and Salma rewrote the lyrics to The Beatles - I Feel Fine and recorded their own version.

Nuh's News!

Listen to Nuh's xylophone composition - Nuh's News!

Our chicks hatched!

We were all really excited to see the chicks hatching - watch video.

Revision Flashcards

The young people made revision flashcards for technical terms for a chosen subject. Here is one student’s set for GCSE English Language, which she used to test the teachers.

Maya's Art Exhibition

Maya put on an exhibition of her amazing artwork - take a look!

Music and Poetry Performance

Students performed music and poetry at the culmination of their six week project with musicians from Wigmore Hall Learning's ensemble Ignite and Philip Wells, aka The Fire Poet.

Nativity Play

Children in the primary class at Chelsea and Westminster performed a nativity play.

Kindness Week

The young people at Lavender Walk have been focusing on Kindness Week. We've debated 'Kindness Dilemmas', used freeze frames and thought tracking in Drama to show Random Acts of Kindness,...

Westway Climbing Trip

Students from the school had a trip to Westway Climbing, which involved overcoming fears and learning the correct way to climb. We climbed walls that reached up to 13.5 metres...

Shadow Puppet

Esmerelda (7) made this excellent shadow puppet to explore how shadows are formed.

Children in Need sale

Children at the Brompton raised £46 at their Children in Need sale. They worked so hard making t-shirts, bags, bookmarks and badges and raised a brilliant £46 for charity.

Gymnastic Girl and Princess Daphne

Meet Gymnastic Girl and Princess Daphne, two excellent puppets made by children at St Mary’s in their DT session. What exciting adventures they will have...?

Music and poetry with Wigmore Hall

We are delighted to start a six week music and poetry project with musicians from Wigmore Hall Learning's ensemble Ignite and Philip Wells, aka The Fire Poet. The theme for our project...

Halloween Potions

Students at St Mary's made potions for Halloween! 

2019 Road Safety Calendar Winner!

Congratulations to Tara whose Road Safety poster has been chosen to be included in next year's RBKC Road Safety calendar. Well done Tara!

Alfie's Tank

Alfie made this during the holiday programme. It was part of his history homework set by his home school based on World War 1 and Alfie focused his research on...

We made slime!

During the Holiday Programme we found the perfect slime recipe and made slime all week long in the classroom and on the wards. Here's a demonstration!

Our children raised £30 for Cancer Suppo…

The children at St Mary's school raised £30.40p for Macmillan Cancer Support. They decorated biscuits and then sold them to teachers, parents and other hospital staff. Their products were creative,...

Ugly Dolls

In DT at St Mary’s Daniel (7) and Bradan (8) made these very impressive ugly dolls from scratch. They were very creative with their designs and were also excellent at...

Poems for World Mental Health Day

Students wrote poems for World Mental Health Day #WorldMentalHealthDay

Loch Lomond

Austin worked really hard learning the melody to Loch Lomond on the piano.

Scarborough Fair

Students recorded their versions of the folk song Scarborough Fair.

Arts and Crafts in our Holiday Programme

Checkout the amazing work students created during the summer holiday programme! Children explored holidays, nature, and animals in the arts and crafts sessions. T-shirts were particularly popular!

Geography Field Trips

The Geography GCSE group took part in two field trips to study flooding in Lea Valley and urban sustainability in Hyde Park

spray painted designs

Ezra designed and created an array of fabulous spray painted designs including a bag, t shirt and canvas. Amazing work and effort. Well done!

t-shirt design

Rabia designed and created an amazing spray paint t-shirt design. Rabia also created one to be sold for charity! Amazing work and effort.  Well done!

Meet Geko Man!

Geko Man is Teddy’s (age 5) amazing life size superhero! Geko Man can throw fireballs and waterballs. He can use the springs on his feet to jump to your rescue....

Two Poems

Elle-Neve wrote these two poems. The first is about her contact with the people in NHS written in preparation for the 70th anniversary of the NHS. The second is about...

Compositions inspired by the Proms

Students at St Marys worked with musicians Dan and Tim from Wigmore Learnhing to create compositions inspired by the Proms. They combined cutouts with graphic scores.

Mixcraft Compositions

Students at Chelsea and Westmisnter have been using Mixcraft software to make their own music compositions. Have a listen!

Seaside Music

Students at Brompton Hospital made compositions inspired by the seaside with musicans from Wigmore Hall Learning.

Fireworks

Bruno, Catlin, Macey and Safi worked with musicians Vicky and Tim from Wigmore Hall Learning to create this composition inspired by fireworks. Have a listen!

Teddy's rain forest diorama

Teddy has made this fantastic rainforest diorama. He researched the different layers of the rainforest and dedicated to each section to each of the layers. He found out some amazing...

A splendid cushion

In DT Juliana designed and made a splendid cushion.

Tropical fruit meringue

In DT, Daniel made a marvellous tropical fruit meringue.

Henri Rousseau

Daniel researched  Henri Rousseau and made a fabulous book about the artist.

Theodore's Top Trumps Fast Trains T-Shir…

During the Easter holidays we had an impressively creative group of students attend the holiday programme.

Olympic Park Trip

Students had a great day out at the Olympic Park. They slid the slide at the ArcelorMittal Orbit and went on to tackle the mountain bike trails.

Celebrating Women's Rights

Maya has been studying women's rights. She created this wonderful poster to celebrate the Suffragette's struggle to get the vote for women 100 years ago.

Origami Puppets

Students made these wonderful origami puppets during the Easter holiday programme.

Postman's Park trip

Students visited Postman’s Park to engage in an interactive talk given by renowned social and cultural historian Dr. John Price at the Watts Memorial. The students learned the story of...

Students singing and playing piano

Students recorded themselves singing and playing piano

Rubik

Felix wanted to dress up as a Rubik’s cube on World Book day. Because Rubik did not feature in a book he decided to create his own story.

Spring inspired artwork and writing

Hemeetha used the technique of pointillism using cotton buds and small wooden sticks to create the dots. Her writing was done when she imagined what would be happening during the...

'I love books’ t-shirts

Students made ‘I love books’ t-shirts and wrote theirr favourite quotes on the back. One pupil wrote a quote from Northern Lights by Philip Pullman: ‘The evening sky was awash...

World Book Day celebrations

For our World Book Day celebrations Snow White, Harry Potter and Leona the Unicorn Fairy visited children on the ward for interactive story time sessions. Each child was given a book...

Treasure our Trees

Maya made this powerful graphic reminding us to 'treasure our trees'.

The Rap t storm

Sean wrote this powerful rap - check it out!

Emotional Bullying

Harini made this great presentation of how to deal with emotional bullying.

Designs inspired by the work of artist J…

Students Mariella, Ketsia, Olivia and Iman have all created their own original designs inspired by the work of artist Joan Miró.

Fabulous Felt Cushions

Emily and Nicole designed and made these fabulous felt cushions during DT sessions.

I AM - a poem about Dragons!

Haroon wrote this amazing rhyming poem about dragons called I AM.

Noshaba's review of our school

Noshaba wrote this thoughtful review of our hospital school. Thank you Noshaba!

BrickLive

Alfie visited BrickLive at the Saatchi gallery. He made LEGO houses and added our names on the graffiti LEGO wall. We also added to the Christmas LEGO mural and saw a LEGO Father...

Jack and the Beanstalk

We had a lovely time with our students at the Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime celebrating the festive season. Oh yes we did!

Students enjoy Kew Gardens

Students had a fantastic day out enjoying the sights at Kew Gardens.

Identity music project

Students worked with musicians from Wigmore Hall Learning to produce original music compostions based on the theme of Identity.

Identity music project with Wigmore Hall

Students worked with musicians from Wigmore Hall Learning to produce original music compostions based on the theme of Identity.

Dinovember

In the primary classroom we have started 'Dinovember' to inspire writing. Check our writing blog to see our work - writersink.cchs.org.uk

Beatboxing with Grace

Students had a great time learning how to beatbox with beatboxer Grace Savage. Check out their compositions!

Students raise £34.80 for Children in N…

Porcha and Lila raised an amazing £34.80 for Children in Need on Friday by hosting a book, puzzle and arts and crafts sale.

Felt Petal Cushion

Ria designed and made a fabulous felt petal cushion in Design Technology.

Chef Club

Check out the amazing creations by our students in Chef Club!

Crisis at Christmas

Students at Collingham had a bake sale to raise money to help some homeless people have a better Christmas. Our target was to raise £26.08 to give one homeless person...

Popcorn

Kelsi has been exploring Pop Art in her art lessons and created this wonderful artwork called Popcorn.

Making electric circuits

In Science we have been making electric circuits.

Mario Kart

During the summer holidays children from all of our school sites enjoyed taking part in creative activities and games in our holiday programme. This year’s theme was Mario Kart and here...

Holiday programme fashion designers

Checkout the amazing skills of our young fashion designers. Our production line included tie-dye t-shirts, bags and embroidery, learning lots of dying techniques and iron transfers for that professional touch. We...

BluesBox FreeStyle

Students had a great time learning how to beatbox with beatboxer Grace Savage. Check out their composition - BluesBox FreeStyle!

Smile by Hadisa

It's always lovely to see our old students when they come back to visit us. Hadisa, who came to us originally via the charity Facing the World, came to see...

Music inspired by the seaside with Wigmo…

Students worked with musicians from Wigmore Hall Learning to produce original music compostions inspired by the seaside.

Dynamite - virtual choir

Students across five of our school sites joined together to sing and play "Dynamite" in our virtual choir. Take a look and listen!

May the force be with the red (and blue)…

Students were great at asking questions, and when they asked ‘What is a force?’ it started a big discussion!

Tie-Dye T-Shirts

Sophie, Kyler and Harry were inspired to make green tie-dye t-shirts for the Green for Grenfell Day. They each decided to try a different pattern; circle, stripes and twirl. We...

Students drew these moths

Our students drew these wonderful moths as part of SVAF's WHISPER project.

Mixcraft Music by Blues and Greens

Students in the Blue and Green groups have been making music using Mixcraft software - have a listen!

Museum of Childhood Visit

We had a visit from Steve from V&A Museum of Childhood today - we always look forward to these visits and this morning was just as interesting and enjoyable. Children...

Origami flowers for MHAW

Shaun, our artist in residence worked with students at the hospital school, the paediatric psychology team and the RBHT arts team to make origami paper flowers to raise awareness of...

Spring Planting

As our garden soil should now be nice and warm we have planted lots of vegetables at CW - some from seeds and some from seedlings. We have planted spring...

Don't Stop - virtual choir

Students across our four school sites joined together to sing and play "Don't Stop" in our virtual choir. Take a look and listen!

Mission Termly - a newsletter by the Bl…

Checkout "Mission Termly", a newsletter created by students in the Blue Group.

Food club celebrates Pi Day

Cooking club makes pies for Pi day (14th of March) Remembering the magical sequence through home made jams, lemon curd and baking jam tarts.

The Fourth Plinth Schools Award 2017

Some of the children at CCHS have been creating artwork inspired by the commissions for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of an art competition for London Schools. Their...

Company by Sydney

Listen to Sydney's composition called Company which she made using Garageband.

Chess after lunch

Enjoying a game of chess after lunch

Relax by Acelya

Acelya composed a piece of music caleed 'Relax'. Take a listen!

Anyone for tea?

Jonathan has worked with our artist Shaun to create these huge sculptures. Jonathan chose to make a teacup and saucer and a scone, complete with cream and jam!

Cooking Pizzas

We have been making pizzas in the primary classroom at CW. Mustafa worked so carefully kneading the dough and adding his favourite toppings!

Lava Lamps

In Science in the primary classroom at CW we have been making mini lava lamps. Emilie made one on the ward and we then used her work as the example...

Ableton Journeys

Students have been creating musical compositions using Ableton Push - take a listen!

Fly fly in a stormy day

Read Aqsa's poem "Fly fly in a stormy day" and many more wonderful pieces of writing on our Writers' Ink blog.

Xmas Snowflakes

Students at St Mary's have been getting into the festive mood by making these cool Xmas Snowflakes from lollipop sticks!

Scarborough Fair

Lottie listened to different versions of Scarborough Fair. Then she learnt the melody and played it on the keyboard using a clarinet sound.

Earth by Lily

Lily used Ableton Live software with a Push controller to compose an atmospheric piece of electronic music called Earth.  

Billy wins Road Safety Poster Competitio…

Congratulations to Billy who designed this Road Safety poster which has been chosen to be included in next year's Road Safety/Active Travel Calendar competition. Well done Billy!

Loving Myself by Noella

Noella wrote and sang a wonderful song called "Loving Myself". Take a listen!

Music making with LSO

Scott and Ayoub made music with musicians Mark and Charlotte from LSO inspired by a story about a boy called Bob who travelled into outer space. Take a listen!

Roald Dahl characters

During the summer the children choose a Roald Dahl character,  traced it and then painted it to celebrate Roald Dahl's birthday. The children really enjoyed this activity and had lots...

Chimes by Ria

Ria was our first student to explore using Ableton Live software with a Push controller to compose a unique piece of electronic music. Ria called it 'Chimes' - take a...

The Great Day

Our 4 week music and drama project with Wigmore Hall musicians and actor Charlie Folorunsho ended in a wonderfrul performance with our students. Take a look on our project blog: blakesmosaics.cchs.org.uk

Triangle trade map

Katie colour coded this map cleverly with different wools. It matches first person statements about the slave trade with a map of the Triangle Trade.

St Mary's Tomatoes

The tomato plants are taking over the St Mary's classroom! Even though they were only planted at Easter, they're already bearing fruits. We are not sure that they will be...

The Meatball The Duck And Pewdiepie

Sophie made an amazing, surreal video for a competition for a famous YouTuber called Felix aka Pewdiepie. Sophie took a clip of Pewdiepie on a greenscreen and added in a Swedish...

New posts on our Writers' Ink blog

Take a look at the latest posts on our writing blog Writers’ Ink which celebrates children’s writing across our school. http://writersink.cchs.org.uk/  

Cass Art Prize collaborative artwork

Congratulations to students for winning the Cass Art prize at the Leighton House schools art competition for a collaborative art piece.

Wear it Wild Day animations

Students in Design Technology made these animations to highlight awareness for Wear It Wild Day for the World Wildlife Federation. Take a look!

I Can See Clearly Now

Andrew worked really hard on learning the melody to "I Can See Clearly Now" on the piano. Take a listen!

Music and stories inspired by William Bl…

Students had a wonderful day with musicians from Wigmore Hall Learning's resident ensemble Ignite and actor Charlie creating music and stories inspired by the paintings and poems of William Blake....

Art inspired by William Blake

Students have created some wonderful artwork inspired by the painings of William Blake . Take a lot at their work on our project blog http://blakesmosaics.cchs.org.uk/?p=447  

Top Trumps

Amelia made this incredibly detailed set of Top Trumps cards to revise key individuals for the History course on Medicine Through Time. They even have justifications for the scores on...

Easter Frames

Chidera, Shakira and Zeynep made these wonderful Easter frames. If you look closely you can find real Easter eggs hidden in the frames!

How to look after chicks

Sarah and Chidera made a "Guide for Week One of Chick Rearing" and an information sheet about chicks - take a look!

Happy Easter!

Shakira and Chidera' tell us about their experie4nce of watching chicks hatch - take a read!  

Chick Poetry

Chidera, Sarah and Zeynep were inspired by the chicks to write poetry - take a read!

Jim - Lad and Matilda

Harry created this wonderful comic strip called 'Jim - Lad and Matilda'. Take a look!

Autumn Leaves - in the spring!

In music students have been exploring jazz. Take a listen to them playing Autumn Leaves.

World Book Day at the Brompton

Staff and pupils at RBH took part in World Book Day by writing book reviews and quotes from their favourite books. Pupils dyed t-shirts, ribbons and made hair-grips to create...

Medicine Man exhibition visit

Students visited the Medicine Man exhibition at the Wellcome Collection where they saw objects as weird and wonderful as a trephined skull, Napoleon's toothbrush, early artificial limbs, and a plague...

Poems with Philip

Our students worked with Philip Wells, aka The Fire Poet, to write these amazing poems. Take a read!

Making jewellery

In Design Technology students have been designing and making jewellery. Take a look at Mariana and Katie's work.

Building an amplifier

In Design Technology students have been building amplifiers. Check out Haile's build here.

Old Operating Theatre trip

Students visited the Old Operating Theatre in Borough where they learnt about the horrors of cholera and pre-anesthetic surgery, Afterwards they continued their cultural education exploring the wonderful food at...

Mehed's Artwork

Take a look at this wonderful artwork made by Mehed, a young man with special needs, who has to stay in his cubicle at St Mary's.

Amelia's Medicine Timeline

Amelia made this timeline of key individuals and events in Medicine from prehistoric times to 1900 - a real labour of love!

A poem inspired by an Otto Dix painting …

A lovely poem by Daniel inspired by an Otto Dix painting ‘German Soldiers

Macbeth

Molly wrote this thoughtful essay on Macbeth for her controlled assessment.

Ciel Beaulieu

Caitlin produced this great piece of writing based on a WW1 soldier’s thoughts.

Cooking Club at CW

Our lovely chefs cooked up a storm in our weekly Cooking Club. On the menu this week the students baked Herbed Tomato Tartlets and Caramelised Onion and Goat's Cheese Tartlets....

The Limestone Cycle

Revision for a section of chemistry work - The Limestone Cycle. Marianna interpreted a summary sheet onto a visual mind map.

Walking Through the Circus

Teo has been exploring the circus. and created a drawing and some music. Take a look and listen!

Hound Dog

Students at St Mary's Hospital recorded their own version of Hound Dog. Take a listen!

A Special Christmas Night

In the St Mary's classroom, Mark and Charlotte from the London Symphony Orchestra helped Eyad, Hanna and Latifah compose a magical piece about a special Christmas night. They used the...

We Wish You a Merry Xmas

We Wish You A Merry Xmas by Eyad at St Mary's Hospital. Take a listen!

We Wish You A Merry Xmas

We Wish You A Merry Xmas from students at Collingham -take a listen!

Getting into the festive spirit!

We are really getting into the festive spirit in CW! We have made personalised Christmas cards for our families - look at Jack in his Santa hat! We have also...

Frozen - Magic fm competition

This week, the pupils at the Brompton are entering the magic fm competition for singing and dancing a song from 'Frozen!' The teachers are seriously impressed by some of these...

Collingham Constellations

Students Kyle, Danny, Sarah, Kosmo, Macsen, Emily, Chidera, Lia and Daisy worked with musicians Jackie, Hannah and Lucy from Wigmore Hall Learning to make their own musical compositions. They each...

Learning Monsters

In the primary classroom at CW we have been making colourful learning monsters! Mya has made a sound monster and when an adult says a word she will put the...

Eiffel Tower by Aaliyah

In Design Technology Aaliyah built this Impressive model of the Eiffel Tower using Lego.

The 4 4 Song by Eyad and Mawada

Eyad and Mawada explored making major and minor chords and then created their own chord sequence using the chords: C Am G Em - take a listen!

Wall Climbing at the Westway

Students from Chelsea and Collingham united for a great wall climbing session at the Westway, defying gravity at heights of 14.5 meters. A great start to the day!

Stop the Bullying! poster by Zeynep

Zeynep designed a poster poster to raise awareness of cyber bullying.

Henry VIII by Jake

In the primary classroom at CW Jake has been learning about The Tudors. He chose to focus on researching the life and times of Henry VIII. He then created this...

Kamili's beautiful tree

Kamili used paint and collage to create his beautiful tree, after looking at lots of pictures to help make decisions about it. He agreed with senior teacher Marie that it...

Chainmail Helmet

When a chainmail helmet arrived in the post at St Mary’s, the team could hardly believe how heavy it was, weighing in a little over 2 kgs. But this didn’t...

Let It Be by Shelby

Shelby learnt how to build major and minor chords and play them on the piano. Then she recorded herself singing Let It Be - take a listen!

Myla's Macbeth comic strip

Myla created this fantastic comic strip summarising the plot of ‘Macbeth’, which CW students are about to start studying in English at the moment. I love the chatty lines she’s...

Salwa's Owl Tealight

Salwa painted this beautiful owl tealight during the half term holiday programme at St Mary's. She picked some lovely colours and worked with great concentration. Her sisters Suha and Sadan...

Charlie's Monster Book

In the primary classroom at CW Charlie has been reading lots of 'That's not my...' books. His favourites are 'That's not my dragon...' and 'That's not my monster...'. Inspired by...

Jack's Dinosaur Book

In the primary classroom at CW Jack has been reading lots of 'That's not my...' books. His favourites are 'That's not my dragon...' and 'That's not my monster...'. Inspired by...

The Campfire Man

Daniel wrote The Campfire Man for National Poetry Day.

Let there be light

Myla wrote Let there be light for National Poetry Day.

Superhero Day

Students at Collingham have been exploring Superheroes. They are organising a Superhero Fundraising Day on 23rd October with lots of fun activities. Take a look!

Cookery

Secondary students enjoying a cookery session.

Autobiographical Anecdotes

One of our secondary students, Joe, learned about how anecdotes can be used to make autobiographical writing interesting to read. He was able to use some very engaging anecdotes in...

Reading Together

Every Friday secondary pupils have come into the primary classroom at CW to read to the primary pupils.

Guacamole

In the primary classroom we have been making healthy dips. Kaylem loved making guacamole today - he mashed avocado, chopped spring onion and squeezed in lime juice. Well done Kaylem!

Hospital Radio Jingles

Students at CW have been making radio jingles for the hospital radio station. They played, recorded and arranged their own versions of Pachelbel's Canon. This was combined with them talking...

Making Music with Mixcraft

Students have been making music using Mixcraft 5 software. Check out their compositions!

Charley's Owl

Charley, in the primary classroom at CW, has made a tree for his owl to perch on! It is amazing what can be done with a sick bowl, some twigs...

Haile's guide to London

Haile has been focusing on travel writing this half-term. He has learned how to write descriptive sentences. He has also learned about how a leaflet is put together and how...

staff and students remix

A fun little remix of staff, students directed by Jennifer and Kate. The girls edited and enhanced the video to make a collage of things they enjoyed seeing us say...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Students went to see 'To Kill a Mockingbird’ at the Barbican. Katie also wrote a review of the play.

Poetry with the Fire Poet

Students worked with Philip Wells the Fire Poet to create these two wonderful poems - sit back and take a read!  

Sultan's Movie

Sultan made this short movie in his room at St Mary's using an iPad app. Can you imagine what would happen if all gloves had a life of their own...

The Shire by Joe

Students at the Brompton have been studying travel writing in English this term. They looked in detail at travel brochures which offered tours of different places.

Charley's Owl

Children in the primary classroom have been working hard during our Arts Award week. Look at the fantastic owl that Charley has made!

Bloggers Bethany and Joe on the Musical …

Students Bethany and Jo have been blogging all about the exciting events taking place here at the Brompton Hospital today. Take a read.

Hungry Caterpillar sandwich

Children in the primary classroom at CW have been enjoying making a range of healthy snacks this term. Here is Yara with her ‘Hungry Caterpillar’ inspired sandwich just before our...

Ancient Sounds

This week our students at St Mary's got stuck in to the technology to create a world of ancient, prehistoric sounds. Take a look and listen on our project blog...

Creating Prehistoric Soundscapes

Students at the Bromton have been creating prehistoric soundscapes for our Musical Time Machine project. Take a look and listen on our project blog here: https://musicaltimemachines.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/creating-prehistoric-soundscapes/

Guide to Completing a Disaster History E…

Jen created this ‘Guide to Completing a Disaster History Exam’. The premise is that she’s sending a letter to a ‘nasty examiner’ to trick him into performing poorly! Take a...

Three Little Birds

Students at St Marys listened to and then recorded their own version of "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley. Take a listen.

Celeste visits Kew Gardens

Celeste has been learning about the Aztecs and was particularly interested in their agricultural lifestyle and reliance upon the fruit and vegetables that grew in the Mesoamerican climate. We had...

Poetry workshop with Philip Wells

Our KS3 cohort at CW composed these inspiring poems in their poetry workshop with the poet Philip Wells.

Balinese inspired music

Students at Royal Brompton worked with musicans Dan and Jackie from Wigmore Hall to create compositions inspired by Balinese music. Take a listen!

Musical Portraits

Students at St Mary's worked with musicans Dan and Vicky from Wigmore Hall to create musical portraits. Take a listen!

Seth's Tiger

Seth has worked very hard with our artist, Shaun, to make this wonderful tiger. He used newspaper to create the shape, covered it in modroc (a bandage-like material that is...

Mask-making mayhem

Secondary pupils at Brompton enjoyed a mask-making session with Mary. Shelby made a Venetian-style mask and edited the images on photo-booth to great dramatic effect.

Lay down another Poppy

Read Katie’s incredible poem "Lay down another Poppy" inspired by her study of Wilfred Owen’s war poetry.

Music inspired by Papua New Guinea

Our students created compositions inspired by the music of Papua New Guinea with musicians Jackie on vibes and Dan on flute, from Wigmore Hall. Sit back and take a listen!

Macbeth at the Orange Tree Theatre

The key stage 4 English cohort from Chelsea & Westminster and St Mary’s went to see a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond this week.

Music inspired by the Indian jungle

Manoah worked with musicians Jackie on vibes and James on cello (from Wigmore Hall), to create this wonderful piece of music inspired by the Indian jungle. Sit back and take...

Red-nose day fundraiser!

This week at the Brompton we raised a whopping £13.03 for Red Nose day by setting up a store!

WW1 Battlefields Trip Report

Students and staff visited the WW1 battlefields. Read Katie's report of their trip and see the photos.

World Book Day

For World Book Day staff at St Mary's dressed up as their favourite characters. Take a look!

GCSE History trip to GOSH

As part of the GCSE History course, students need to learn about a local site of historical interest. Our year 10 and 11 students recently visited our chosen site, Great...

The Night Pirates

We had a fantastic World Book Day at CW! We used 'The Night Pirates' by Peter Harris as our inspiration. We dressed as pirates, sang pirate songs and even wrote...

Horrid Henry

For World Book Day Yasser wanted to make a costume for his favourite character, Horrid Henry.  His wig turned out brilliantly!

Travel Better London Poems

As part of the Travel Better London campaign some children have written poems in the primary class at CW all about demonstrating more considerate behaviour on the bus or tube.  

Chinese New Year

During half term children made a Chinese Dragon. On the final day they paraded around the wards along to the sound of a drum to celebrate Chinese New Year.  

Making Neckties

Tiana and Matty spent the afternoon designing and painting neck ties.They used online materials to reference their design ideas, then painted using textile paints. What beautiful results!  

Luke made a great T-Shirt

Luke (9) took part in Discover Arts Award which he has now completed and passed –well done! Luke said, ‘I enjoyed the colouring and making the t-shirt.’ When asked what...

Sweet and Holidays

We had a wonderful workshop with musician and singer Hannah Peel. First she showed us her music box which she uses to accompany herself singing and then we turned our...

Photo-Collage Workshop

Primary students took part in a photo-collage workshop as part of our Arts Award week. Check out their wonderful collages!

Puppet Workshop

Puppet Barge theatre group ran a wonderful puppet workshop with our primary students for Arts Award week. Students made some fantastic shadow puppets - take a look!

Identifying Instruments

Ridwan watched a video of Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing C Jam Blues. She matched the written names of the instruments to the beginnings of the words, read them...

Meet a student!

Salma, who is a student from Dubai, looked at the staff pictures on the CCHS website and was inspired to write her own contribution. She used some of the questions...

Bin it to Win it

As part of our Commenius project 'Big Green Footsteps', Sean and Angel have been working hard in the primary classroom to create 'Bin it to Win it', a game that is...

Origami by Ramendeep

At the Brompton Ramendeep made an origami butterfly in DT and absolutely loved this, she also made a heart and a cup, that you can drink from out of card.  

Portrait of Bruno Mars by Blake

Blake created this remarkable portrait of Bruno Mars in the style of Julian Opie his art session.

Bring me the Horizon

Students performed 'Bring me the Horizon' at the Chapel in Brompton Cemetery. The students music and poetry resulted from a six week collaboration with Wigmore Hall Learning's resident ensemble Ignite...

Thank you Chelsea FC

Chelsea FC football players came to visit our students at the hospital school. Check out Heidi and Blake's thank you letters.

Zion's Adventure by Blake

Blake has written, typed, illustrated, laminated and bound his own story this half term, as well as uploading it to the ‘Fan Fiction’ website for comment. We’re also planning to...

One Day A Time Will Come

Jennifer has a keen interest in writing poetry on issues she feels passionate about. Check out her latest poem "One Day A Time Will Come"

Trip to the Old Operating Theatre Museum

The History cohort got the chance to get their hands dirty at The Old Operating Theatre Museum this week, making pills, herbal tonics, and even getting strapped onto the operating...

Katie's fantastic Victorian detective st…

Katie has begun this absolutely fantastic Victorian detective story, pull up a chair and take a read!

History trip to the Science Museum

The GCSE History students enjoyed an offsite educational visit to the Science Museum. The fourth floor dioramas gave an excellent insight into the development of Medicine Through Time and upstairs...

Wild Mountain Thyme

Shelby listened to different versions of Wild Mountain Thyme and then sang and recorded her own version - take a listen!

Sonia's Prayer

In PSHE  we have been thinking about being thankful which felt particularly poignant on Remembrance Day when we remembered those who lost their lives in war. Sonia (10)  wrote a prayer...

A quote from a visitor to CW hospital

A quote from Nuala, a visitor to CW hospital."Thoroughly enjoyed “Crossing Borders” (exhibition), your school joining with schools in Gaza to teach us about Palestinian culture. What openess, humanity and...

Cugemca

At the Royal Brompton Hospital, students worked with our poet-in-residence, Philip, to create their own poems.  One of our students wrote a poem called Cugemca inspired by three words: cute,...

Music and Poetry @ Brompton Cemetery

Students began a project with musicians from Ignite, Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble and Philip Wells aka The Fire Poet, our resident poet. We met at the Brompton Cemetery to find...

HTU subtraction by Nassib

Nassib has been solving HTU subtraction this week. He has loved learning how to solve HTU subtraction quickly in his head - here he is testing himself using a mathematics...

The Magic Box

In the primary classroom we have been writing poems based on Kit Wright's 'The Magic Box.' Look at Georgia's special box that she made and the wonderful ideas she used...

Poems by Caitlin and Terry

Check out these wonderful poems our students Caitlin and Terry wrote together with our Poet in Residence Philip Wells.

Yara learns her letter sounds

Yara has been learning her letter sounds in school this year. She now knows 16 sounds and is working on blending them to make words. Watch her video to see...

Loch Lomond

Students in the Blue group have been exploring folk music of the British Isles. Take a listen to their version of Loch Lomond.

Be Grateful - Don't be Wasteful & Dr…

Yara and Adnan in the primary classroom at CW has been doing great work in their Geography lessons all about water.Look at their fantastic posters!

Save The World

Alfie in the primary classroom at CW has been doing some fantastic work in his Geography lessons all about water. Read his comments and look at his fantastic poster!

Do-Re-Mi by Norah

Norah has been enjoying playing melodies on the chime bars. Listen to her playing Do-Re-Mi (from "The Sound of Music")

Sound and Image

Students created music compositions using Mixcraft software and then added them to sequenced photographs from our garden to make these amazing music videos - check them out!

French Cafe Visit

The Chelsea & Westminster Modern Foreign Languages class took a trip to a French cafe close to the hospital. We had the chance to practise our French with the owner...

Piano Music by Kaylan

Kaylan has been playing music as part of his Arts Award qualification. Listen to him playing HEART AND SOUL and STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN.

Making Music with Mixcraft

Students have made these amazing musical compositions using Mixcraft software - have a listen!

Janelle Monae by Myla

Myla made this wonderful artwork Janelle Monae which won a prize at the 2014 Schools Art Exhibition.  

British Crayfish by Rael

Rael made this wonderful artwok British Crayfish which won a prize at the 2014 Schools Art Exhibition.

Column subtraction explained...

We have a new maths television presenter amongst us! Noshaba gives a detailed explanation of how to use column addition to subtract one large number from another. Use this with...

World Book Day

Staff and students celebrate World Book Day at St Mary's Hospital.

Storyboard by Dionne

This is a storyboard by Dionne who decided she wanted to write a murder story set in a boarding school!

Music project with Wigmore Hall

Our students worked for 5 weeks with Wigmore Hall Learning's resident music ensemble Ignite and Philip Wells the Fire Poet to create these wonderful compositions. The project culminated in a...

Blues and Greens make music with Wigmore…

Students from the Blue and Green groups worked for 5 weeks with Wigmore Hall Learning's resident music ensemble Ignite and Philip Wells the Fire Poet to create these wonderful compositions....

How was Hitler able to convince the publ…

During the lesson the class looked at how Hitler influenced children in Germany to follow him. We looked at the ways he used education to manipulate children’s thoughts. Students were...

The Sand Lizard

Jason, age 10 felt very strongly that the sand lizard was the most endangered creature in the UK. He has written some text and made a model of a sand...

Summertime by Shelby

Shelby learnt to read and play guitar tab. She then played and recording the bass line to Summertime on guitar. Then she recorded herself singing along to her recording. Check...

Red House

We have been exploring the Blues and students in the Green and Blue groups recorded their version of Red House by Jimi Hendrix.

Radio CW

We had such a fabulous time at Radio CW on Wednesday 29 January with our new (and brilliant) radio presenter Tom! The show was full of music, fun, dancing, favourite...

The Blues

We have been exploring the Blues and Maisie and Panos recorded their version of Hound Dog while Jayden recorded his version of Heart and Soul - check them out!

Jason's First Lego Movie!

In the primary classroom at CW Jason has been learning how to make a movie using Lego Movie Maker.  

Circles

Today Akintola was able to label different parts of a circle including the circumference, the tangent and a segment.

Haikus by Bryce

Bryce wrote these two great Haikus on sustainability.

Getting the new year started with a bang…

This Thursday, we enjoyed at visit from the Science Museum and Static Steve. Museum Magic: The Science Museum taught us about friction and gravity. Just how do you get 3...

Into the forest

This term we are learning about forests. We made trees using printing patterns and collage. We also learnt about stories in forests.

Jason's imaginary home

Jason, in the primary classroom at CW, has also been working on designing his own imaginary home. He created a fantastic design - his home was made from money, had...

Describing Homes

       In the primary classroom at CW we have been enjoying our new topic, Homes. In Literacy, we have been writing descriptions. First we described our own homes and created a...

Punchdrunk's Story Balloonists visit St …

 Punchdrunk Enrichment's Story Balloonists travel the world in their hot air balloon, looking for the most imaginative places on earth, in their ongoing quest to find the Greatest Story Ever...

Twinkle Twinkle

Egzona, age 10, learnt the melody for Twinkle Twinkle on the piano and then recorded herself playing and singing it - take a listen!

Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells. Flo played piano along with musicians Lucy and Vicky from Wigmore Hall. Happy Christmas!

Paintings by Olga

Olga, one of our students on Foulis ward has produced these wonderful paintings. The originals are on display on level 3 at the Brompton Hospital. Click readmore to take a...

Space Music with Wigmore Hall

In our 4 week project with musicians from Wigmore Hall we have been exploring the theme of travelling, and this week we went to outer space.Aarzoo and Daniel wrote a...

History trip to Bath

A group of secondary students went on a day trip to Bath and visited the Roman Baths and The American Museum in Britain.

Twas the night before Christmas - a poem…

Martin wrote this wonderful poem inspired by reading 'Twas the night before Christmas'.

Twas the night before Christmas - a poe…

Deztinee wrote this wonderful poem inspired by reading 'Twas the night before Christmas'.

Travelling music with Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall's Ignite musicians worked with our students to make these two pieces of "Travelling music" - can you guess where we travelled too?

Prince by Millie

Millie made this wonderful Prince cut-out in her Art session.

David Attenborough by Rael

Rael made this remarkable David Attenborough cut-out in his Art session.

Octopus's Garden

This term we are exploring the music of The Beatles and today we listened to "Octopus's Garden". Louise, Oscar and Sakaria recorded their own version - check it out!

Ceramic Mugs

Bethan, Rael, Bella, Millie and Zach made these marvellous ceramic mugs in their Art sessions.  

The Shard by Luca

Luca made this stupendous Shard in his Art session.

Arc de Triomphe by Victor

Victor made this magnificent Arc de Triomphe in his Art session.    

Operation Christmas Child

The primary class at Brompton took part in Operation Christmas Child. We made 7 boxes for boys and girls of all ages.

Can't Buy Me Love

This term we are exploring the music of The Beatles and today we listened to "Can't Buy Me Love". Eleanor recorded her version on the flute while Shelby sang her version...

She Loves You

This term we are exploring the music of The Beatles. Eleanor worked out the melody to "She Loves You" on the flute - check out her wonderful recording!  

Happy Halloween

Evelyn was busy creating Halloween bunting for her little sister’s birthday party this half-term!

Lowry inspired painting

Collingham students worked collaboratively to create this amazing Lowry inspired painting and frame.

Whiskey in the Jar

Jessica have been exploring folk music. Listen to her playing "Whiskey in the Jar" on the flute.

Ochewa

Myla worked with our Poet in residence Philip Wells to produce this remarkable poem - Ochewa.  

The Mill, Birds Flying and Pirate

Manoah created three paintings and then described them in English and Spanish as part of our "European Day of Languages"  

Richard Ayoade aka Gadget Man

Samson drew this fantastic portrait of Richard Ayoade aka Gadget Man.

David Attenborough

Take a look at Rael's wonderful drawing of David Attenborough!

Drunken Sailor by Kate and Jennifer

Jennifer and Kate have been exploring folk music. Listen to them playing "Drunken Sailor" on the piano.

5 little cats

Simsola (6) wrote this lovely poem called "5 little cats".    

Maria's Music

Alex, our wonderful intern at the Brompton, has been teaching Maria, one of our students, guitar. When Maria arrived at RBH she had been recently gifted a guitar from her...

I love you silver mystery lulamoon

Chloe, Jennifer & Kate have been working on combining chords and improvisation. Listen to their composition using drums and piano.

Twinkle Twinkle

Monoah learnt how to play Twinkle Twinkle on the piano

Jamming

In Music we have been exploring Reggae. Chloe and Jack performed an instrumental version of Jamming by Bob Marley.

007 Shanty Town

The Green Group have been listeneing to Ska music. They recorded their own version of 007 Shanty Town. Check it out!

Space Adventures

As part of our 'Adventure' topic this term children in the primary classroom at Chelsea and Westminster have been learning about space.

A Message to You, Rudy

Eleanor worked out the melody to" A Message to You, Rudy" on the flute - check out her wonderful recording!

Music with Wigmore Hall

Students at Collingham have been working with musicians from Wigmore Hall to produce these wonderful compositions which they performed as part of this year's Easter service. Have a listen!

Music with Wigmore Hall

Students at Chelsea have been working with musicians from Wigmore Hall to produce these wonderful compositions which they performed as part of this year's Easter service. Have a listen!

Jazz classics by Milton

Milton has been studying Jazz in his music sessions, and here he performs the melodies of two jazz claasics - check them out!

World Book Day at Collingham

Staff and students dressed up to celebrate World Book Day - check out their wonderful costumes!

World Book Day at the Brompton

Lewis Carroll was the chosen author for the week and the characters from Alice in Wonderland came out in force! They also bumped into Harry Potter whilst in the wood....

World Book Day at C&W

Students dressed up in these wonderful costumes to celebrate World Book Day.

World Book Day at St Marys

Our students and staff dressed up to celebrate World Book Day - here we have Jayne as Where’s Wally and Wendy as The Queen of Hearts.

Happy Chinese New Year

The students at Collingham have been working hard in their design and technology classes to design and make snakes as according to the Chinese, it is the Year of the Snake! Please...

St James Infirmary Blues

The Green group have been studying the Blues. Today we listened to and recorded our own version of St James Infirmary Blues. Check it out!  

Triny's Road Safety Video

Triny has been learning about road safety at school and put her learning into practice on a trip out. She knew to hold hands with an adult and to stop,...

Ayub's changed Mona Lisa.

The students at the Brompton have been looking at changes in Art.   

Dust my Broom

This term we are exploring The Blues in our music sessions. We listened to "Dust My Broom" and then we recorded our  version.

St Mary's music project with Ignite

Elements was a 4-week project with Wigmore Hall Learning’s Ignite ensemble.

Brompton music project with Ignite

Elements was a 4-week project with Wigmore Hall Learning’s Ignite ensemble.

Beatles Quiz

Danielle has been researching The Beatles. Check out her PowerPoint presentation and quiz.

DIY Snow Globes

The children in Collingham have been getting into the festive season and have designed and made these fantastic snow globes in their Design and Technology class. Aren't they great?

Blue Group Fundraiser

Blue Group students baked cakes and sold them to raise funds for the Fire Brigade.

Icelandic Project

The children have all been excited to work on the Icelandic project with the pupils from a school in Iceland. The pupils from Iceland sent us an amazingly creative presentation...

Mermaids

With a little help from my friends

Ben used Garageband to record the melody, chords and drums to "With a little help from my friends". Check it out!   

Recycle - Anything Can Happen!

Last week, we were learning how plastic was made. Maria watched a video and told us; ‘It’s made from oil underground.’ Maria then composed a questionnaire for staff about their...

Xmas Song Survey by Danielle

Danielle made a survey of all our favourite Xmas songs - see which came out on top and take a listen!

Get Back by the Green Group

The Green group have been studying the music of the Beatles. Today we listened to and recorded our own version of Get Back. Check it out!  

Billy's Great Fire of London

Billy worked hard to create a scene from The Great Fire of London. He came up with the idea to smudge chalk for smoke and directed me about where to...

Plate Project

Plates produced collaboratively by students from Gaza and from Chelsea Community Hospital School. The plates will be displayed at Leighton House as part of this year's Nour Festival.

A poem for St Mary's Hospital

Jonah wrote this poem whilst he was with us at St Mary's. I am sure you will agree that it is fantastic and vividly describes the hospital ambience.

Maria's Fireworks Poem

In literacy we have been learning how to use onomatopoeia, alliteration and similes or metaphors to create effective poems.  Here you can read Maria's fantastic fireworks poem...

Spooky!!

At St Mary's the students have been very creative and produced some very spooky work. Well done everyone fantastic work!!

Ellie's story

In English at the Brompton, students have been learning about descriptive writing. Ellie was able to use a range of descriptive techniques in her own writing, and she did a...

Blessing by Emelia and Stella

In English at St Mary’s, students have been exploring the theme of water.  As today is National Poetry Day, students explored the poem ‘Blessing’ by Imtiaz Dharker.  Emelia and Stella...

Blacksmith

Louise has been composing music using Garageband - check out her composition 'Blacksmith'.

The Star of The County Down by Lili

Lili has been studying the music of the British Isles - listen to her singing "The Star of The County Down".

Folk music by the Green Group

The Green group have been studying the folk music of the British Isles. Here they perform two songs; Scarborough Fair and Star of the County Down.

Drunken Sailor

The Green group have been studying the folk music of the British Isles. They rewrote the lyrics and recorded their own version of "Drunken Sailor". Check it out!  

Composing with Ignite

Our Secondary students worked with Wigmore Hall Learning's resident ensemble, Ignite, over a period of 5 weeks to create their own pieces of music through the process of improvisation and creative...

Composing with Ignite

The Green Group worked with Wigmore Hall Learning's resident ensemble, Ignite, over a period of 5 weeks to create their own pieces of music through the process of improvisation and...

Josh's Olympic Art Gallery

 One of our students, Josh has been working very hard designing his own Olympic Art Gallery. As you can see he has produced some really fantastic work. Well done Josh!

Light yet Dark - Dark yet Light

Sasha took photographs, made them into a slideshow and then created music using Mixcraft software to accompany them. Check out his amazing video Light yet Dark - Dark yet Light

Green Group Music Compositions

The Green Group have been exploring making music compositions using Mixcraft software and combining them with slideshows of their photographs. Check out their amazing work!

Metal Hospital and Sunshine

Secondary students have been taking photos and then creating musical compositions using Mixcraft software.Check out Danielle's and Evian's short videos.

Summer Holiday

The summer holidays are nearly here so it was time for us to sing "Summer Holiday" - check it out!

Olympic Stadiums

During the summer term we have been doing work based on the Olympic Games that are being held in London. In KS1 & KS2 we have designed our own...

Master Man

Brandon and Jack worked together using Mixcraft software to produce this amazing piece of music called Master Man. Check it out!

Buddhist Tooth Festival

The children made these superb elephants using junk art, felt and paint to celebrate the Sri Lankan festival. The festival involves beautifully decorated elephants parading around the city of Kandy.

Katie and Jack in the London Eye with th…

The primary pupils read Katie in London drew, pictures and then with help from one of our secondary pupils, made a musical composition to accompany them. Check it out!

Beach huts!

Emma made these beautiful beach huts!

Olympic Trophies

In DT we researched trophy designs online and then the pupils designed and created their own by using junk modelling and paint. As you can see the finished results look...

Risky World

Students at the Brompton made this tapestry in their art sessions highlighting some of the risks we face in the world today. It also won a prize at the Schools...

Ella's plate

Ella made this wonderful plate in her art session. It also won a prize at the Schools Summer Art Exhibition.

Identity

Our students have been exploring the theme of identity, and in their art sessions produced this fantastic series of paintings exploring a wide range of different identies.

Nihiromoma

The primary pupils drew some pictures using the computer and then made some music to go with them. Check it out!

Composition 02

We took some photographs, put them in a slideshow and then worked together to create a compostion to accompany them. Check it out!

Sequencing Numbers to 10

Luca (5) and Che (4) have been sequencing numbers up to 10.  Here they are working their way through a series of Busy Things questions.  Well done!

Blue Group Olympic Logos

The blue group have been designing Olympic Logos as part of our London 2012 theme.

Equivalent Fractions

Tilly (11) and James (8) have been learning about equivalent fractions. This is them in action! Equivalent Fractions have the same value, even though they may look different. These fractions are really the same: 1     2    ...

Shadows and Light

Jade explored light and shadow using photoghs, made a slideshow and then created this remarkable musical composition to accompany them. Check it out!

Lia's Ulcerative Colitus poster

Last term a secondary student at C&W, Lia, set out to complete a visual and informative piece about the inflammatory bowel disease, Ulcerative Colitus. Lia started in the morning and...

Composition 01

Our students took some photographs and then worked together to create a compostion to accompany them. Check it out!

The Mysterious Carrot

The primary students took some photographs and then composed a piece of music to accompany them. Check it out!

Sound and Image

The Green Group are exploring composing.They took some photographs, made a slideshow and then composed some music to accompany it. Check it out!  

Three Little Birds

We have been exploring the music of Bob Marley. Check out the Green groups version of "Three Little Birds"

Oaseomam

Here you can read the poem Oaseomam by Louis aged 9 and Philip Wells The Fire Poet!

The Sense of War

Daniel has created this wonderfully emotion packed piece of poetry describing the horrors of life in the trenches in WW1. He has been looking at how Michael Morpurgo can convey...

A day in the life of the Cystic Fibrosis…

Working with Katerina at youth club Harry has been taking a series of photographs during his hospital stay. The photographs are about the different routines and procedures that run throughout his...

A Message To You, Rudy

This term we will be exploring Ska music. The Green group have recorded their own version of "A Message To You, Rudy" - check it out!

Titanic

Staff and students at St Mary's worked very hard designing and creating this amazing display to mark the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Well done everyone!  

Tutti Frutti

Nora created this stunning fruit themed collage using coloured paper. She carefully ripped the paper to form individual fruit shapes before adding the detail and highlights.  

Chinese New Year

As part of the start of Chinese New Year Nneoma completed some research and then made this lovely dragon        

Buddhist Wheel of Life

In RE Akintola looked at the Buddhist Wheel of Life. Then he created his own with words and symbols that were important to him.          

Buddhist symbols

As part of her RE, Noella looked at Buddhist symbols. She completed the chart and made this lovely Origami Lotus flower.      

Table Football

Jayden, Anna and Rabbit enjoyed playing a game of table football as part of their PE session        

Lots of Maths!

Lots of exciting maths has been going on in the Primary are at St. Mary's, check out what everyone's been up to!          

Worry Dolls

In Our PHSE lesson we listened to the story of “SillyBilly” where poor Billy has lots of worries that stop him sleeping. His grandma tells him to make worry dolls...

Photo Frames

In one of her lessons in her cubicle, Nneoma followed some quite complicated instructions to make this lovely Origami photo frame. We think it looks great!!      

Portraits

The students looked at a range of self portraits by famous artists and chose a style to create a self portrait of their own. Natasha produced this stunning Van Gogh...

Number One Woman In My Life

A rap written and performed by a young man living with sickle cell disease. Listen to the words as they powerfully describe an emotional journey

Get Back (again)

We have been exploring the music of The Beatles in our music sessions. We listened to "Get Back" and then we recorded our  version.

Get Back

This term we are exploring the music of The Beatles in our music sessions. We listened to "Get Back" and then we recorded our  version.

Innocent Drinks Visit

Last week, students at the Royal Brompton Hospital took part in a creative workshop with Ceri, from Innocent.  Take a look at what we got up to.        

3D Shapes

In Maths we have been drawing nets and constructing 3D shapes.  Rianna and Akintola made 3D shapes out of Polydron.  They then disassembled their shapes to see the net.  Using...

Jingle Bells

Amir, Qamil and Shuaib practised playing and singing Jingle Bells - have a listen!

Poetry with our poet in residence Philli…

All our kids have been participating to a poetry workshop directed by our poet in residence Phillip Wells. Please check out their amazing poems below:

Africa: Continent of Contrasts - Brompto…

Listen to the final composition from our music project with Wigmore Hall.

Africa: Continent of Contrasts - St Mary…

Listen to the final composition from our music project with Wigmore Hall.

Taylor's composition

Taylor composed and then recorded a short music composition using GarageBand on the iPad. Check it out! 

Snowman

The Blue group joined the Green group for music and wrote some new words to "Hound Dog".Check out their performance!

Not my Business

In English this term we have been looking at poetry, particularly poets who live and write about Africa. We looked in detail at a poem by Niyi Osundare, a Nigerian poet. The...

Music with Wigmore Hall weeks 2 and 3

As part of our 4 week project with musicians from Wigmore Hall we have been exploring African rhythms and musical influences.Have a listen to the amazing music we made together on...

Cooking with Laura Santtini

We are delighted that the inspirational cook Laura Santtini has offered to come in and cook with the students at Collingham on a Monday morning.

I wanna go back to sleep

In music we have been studying the BluesHarriet and Dean listened to "Dust my Broom" and then wrote some new words - check them out!

The Great Shape Hunt

  Look we've found a square!        

Rainforest Diorama's

Take a look at our fantastic rainforest diorama's!          

Día de Muertos

Students designed their skulls for the Mexican Festival, Day of the Dead.

Dream Catchers

As part of our Fantastic Places theme, Lyndon and Shekirah made Dream Catchers in Design and Technology

Shapes

The Forest

As part of their work on The Forest the Red and Blue groups read The Lorax by Dr Seuss and then made some posters highlighting the environmental issues. Jodi worked...

More Stained Class Windows

Stained Glass Windows

How would you recycle a Red Nose?

Imperial War Museum

Jessica and Steve's trip to the Imperial War Museum.

Maurice's Guide to Lyantonde - Uganda

In English, students have been studying travel guides. Maurice looked at a range of different travel guides before writing his own guide to his home town: Lyantonde in Uganda. Maurice...

African Music with Wigmore Hall

As part of our 4 week project with musicians from Wigmore Hall we have been exploring African rhythms and musical influences.Have a listen to the amazing music our band produced...

African Music with Wigmore Hall

As part of our 4 week project with musicians from Wigmore Hall we have been exploring African rhythms and musical influences.Have a listen to the amazing music we made this week.

Are you going to waste all my time?

We have been studying Folk Music of the British Isles.Harriet listened to the folk song Scarborough Fair and then wrote some powerful new lyrics - Check them out!

Turkish menu

Dean put together a menu for a Turkish restaurant.  This was also part of their work on 'Around the world in 80 days'

Facts about modern Turkey

Dean and the rest of the green group have been reading the novel 'Around...

Apple juice

The green group has been using the apple press to make some real fresh apple juice...

Apple juice

The green group has been making some real fresh apple juice.

Spelling! Gulp...

Mohammed wrote this great poem about spelling tests. It's rather funny!             Spelling! Gulp... OMG jumping out of my bed at four I wish I took a tour...

Will ye go LibDems go!

The Green group have been studying Folk Music of the British Isles.They listened to The Wild Mountain Thyme and then recorded their own version, with new lyrics -  Check it...

Flory Puppet Show

Flory read the story of Farmer Duck really well and then he made his own puppet show with some of the animals.

E-Safety project

 Students have been creating a set of publications to raise awareness of the issues and to encourage children to stay safe online.              

Who can make an Egg Stand on End?

Could you make an egg lift up on its end and stay there? Find out how in this experiment with our very own nutty professor Paul.              

Loch Lomond

Lyndon and Shekirah made their own version of "Loch Lomond" in their music session.

My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean

Lyndon and Harry learnt the melody to "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" in their music session.

Cross-stitch panels

Pooja (11) designed and made four cross-stitch panels over the summer holiday programme. She worked incredibly hard and the finished panels looked beautiful. Well done Pooja!

Sketches of a Dyson Turbine Head.

Some of our budding art students were set the task to make a sketch of a Dyson Turbine Head, let’s see how they got on.     

Glass Painting

Nadine and Kiana decorated these stained glass window decorations beautfully.            

Carnival Costumes

At St Mary's we have been getting ready for carnival weekend. The children have been making masks and headwear to join in the carnival fun.          

Carnival Costumes

At St Mary's we have been getting ready for carnival weekend. The children have been making masks and headwear to join in the carnival fun.            

Shooting Star

Aisha created this lovely star which is her interpretation of the big bang!!!      

Aliens versus Monsters

The classroom was invaded by an army of aliens and monsters battling for supremacy.        

Magic Wands

Nadine's magic star wand gives magical dreams to sleepy children.        

Montezuma

Anyah's Aztec God! Modroc Montezuma with pistachio shells in his belly so he shakes when he dances.        

Making Masks

Healthy Eating

The Green Class have been creating recipes for a Healthy Eating Cookbook.  Check out their creations!

Jammin'

Danielle and Masood recorded their own version of Jammin' by Bob Marley. Check it out! 

Jammin'

We have been studying Jamaican music. Listen to Christophe and Inam's version of Jammin' by Bob Marley.

007 (Shanty Town)

The Green group have been studying Ska music. They listened to 007 (Shanty Town) by Desmond Dekker and then recorded their own version . Check it out!

Demi-Lea's Blanket Stitch

After finishing her GCSE exams, Demi-Lea learned to blanket stitch!              

Translation Support for Greek Patients

Panayiotis has been an inpatient several times at The Royal Brompton Hospital, his parents have offered to help with translation from English to Greek for parents who have children admitted...

Sezgin's Fundraising Powerpoint

Sezgin (8) decided to make a PowerPoint to encourage people to donate to a third world vaccination program that he saw on Espresso’s News Bites.

Panayiotis Counting

Panayiotis (6) is from Athens (Greece) and has been doing maths while in school at the Brompton.                

Weird Science

Students had a chance to take part in a number of science experiments. Have a look if you dare!    

Campaign to save cardiac services at th…

Elliott, one of our students made this slideshow as part of the campaign  to save cardiac services at the Brompton Hospital.

An invitation to tea!!!!

The classroom was transformed into a setting for a traditional afternoon tea party. The purpose of this was to share this typically english tradition with our friends at a hospital...

Making Fireproof Balloons

Students took part in a science experiment looking at how to create fireproof balloons and the science behind them.

Ali taking part in the Dyson challenge

Ali was given the task to disassemble a Dyson Vacuum Cleaner using only a 5p coin, a spoon, a TORX screw and a plastic cup, all before lunch time!!!!!!...

Enchanted Ocean Drums

We had fun making enchanted ocean drums using paper plates, acetate, glitter, beads and hundreds and thousands. The pupils designed the centre of their drums with drawings of mythical creatures,...

Ryan's visit to the Champions League fes…

Having seen all the fun Ali and Inam had during the weeklong festival. Ryan decided to go head to head with me in the football challenge at Hyde Park.          

Mars Attacks!!

During the summer half term holiday, the children participated in an outerspace arts and crafts session. They designed their own unique aliens and then created them using paints, card, pipe...

Tea Party

This video shows the culmination of a joint Art and Design and Technology project the students did as part of our Comenius work. The aim was to show the other...

Three Little Birds

We have been studying Ska and Reggae in KS3/4 music.Elliot played the keyboards with a bass sound on our performance of "Three Little Birds"

Champions League Festival

Ali and Inam got their photo taken with the most coveted piece of silverware in European club football the Champions League Trophy!!!

Tourist Information video

Bethany (10) made this fantastic Tourist Information video to persuade people to visit London. Well done, Bethany!

Nitin Sawhney at the Albert Hall

Our pupils were lucky enough to attend a music concert at the Albert Hall to see Nitin Sawhney. He is a world-class producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral composer working in the worlds...

A spell to banish winter!

Pupils at Chelsea and Westminster have been working over the past 3 weeks with Ignite, a group of musicians from Wigmore Hall, to create an original composition inspired by “The...

Musical Constellations

Pupils at Collingham have been working over the past 3 weeks with Ignite, a group of musicians from Wigmore Hall, to produce their own unique musical composition. They began by...

Roller-Coaster

   Justin wrote this piece of creative writing about a ride on a roller-coaster.             

London Zoo

Annie, Natasha and Helen's visit to London Zoo.                  

Rose Fm

Here you can watch some fantastic video footage of practicing for future Rose Radio transmissions.                

My Favourite Things

This term we are exploring Jazz in our music sessions. We listened to versions of "My Favourite Things" including John Coltrane's famous version and then Justin, Harry and Rohin recorded...

Football

This half term with have been using football to help promote the values of trust, respect, inclusion, equity and team work while helping students to acquire and develop a variety...

Karl's Postcard

The Red group have been exploring letter writing and seeing how much you can write on a postcard. After reading Little Red Riding Hood Karl wrote a postcard to Grandma warning...

Seth's Postcard

The Red group have been exploring letter writing and seeing how much you can write on a postcard. After reading Little Red Riding Hood Seth wrote a postcard to Grandma...

Dylan's Postcard

The Red group have been exploring letter writing and seeing how much you can write on a postcard. After reading Little Red Riding Hood, Dylan wrote a postcard to Grandma...

Petrouchka

Aaesha, Leonard, Muzdalife and Pharell worked with musicians Daniel, Jackie and Vicky from Wigmore Hall to create compositions based on Petrouchka by Stravinsky. Using puppets that were made by the group during the morning...

Pulcinella

Andre, Daniel, Laura, Sara and Sarah worked with musicians Daniel, Julian and Kate from Wigmore Hall to create compositions based on Pulcinella by Stravinsky. We looked at Picasso's painting "Three Musicians" (Pablo...

The Firebird

Yasmin and Shakwarn worked with musicians Julian, Jackie and Kate from Wigmore Hall to create compositions based on The Firebird by Stravinsky. We used pictures of the Firebird and Kastchei to create...

Logo designs using ICT

Students were asked to re-create our school logo using only MS Paint and images from the internet.  

Family Tree

George (10), created this wonderful family tree in his History lesson.

School logo designs

Students were asked to re-create our school logo using only MS Paint and images from the internet.

The Door

Jennifer wrote a poem based on a poem by Miroslav Holub called "The Door".

Don't Dare

Dawid wrote a poem called "Dont' Dare" based on a poem by Miroslav Holub called "The Door".

The Door

Kate wrote a poem based on a poem by Miroslav Holub called "The Door".

My Favourite Things

This term we are exploring Jazz in our music sessions. We listened to versions of "My Favourite Things" including John Coltrane's famous version and then Ali, Christophe, Nicole and Tyler recorded their...

Summertime

This term we are exploring Jazz in KS3/4 music.Ellie listened to "Summertime" and then recorded her acapella version.

When The Saints Go Marching In

This term we will be exploring Jazz in our music sessions. We listened to "When The Saints Go Marching In" and then Christophe and Nicole recorded their version.  

St James Infirmary Blues

Anitha, Bethany, Christina, Dawid, Jennifer, Jonathan, Kate and Zach listened to 3 versions of "St James Infirmary Blues". Then they recorded their own version.  

Charlie's Chelsea Trip and New Signing

Click here to watch Charlie being signed for Chelsea and see his photograph from the Stamford Bridge Stadium tour...        

Ellie's Timeline

In literacy Ellie created chorological timeline about her life. Her literacy skills have really improved and you can see it in her wonderful work. Ellie also had some fun making...

Teachers from a Hospital School in Parma…

We were very lucky to have visiting teachers from a Hospital School in Parma (Italy) spending time with us. Vicky did some really special work and made a quiz for...

Vicky's 3D Planet Earth

Vicky made a 3D planet Earth in Science. Here she is adding the continents to it and making some final touches.

Archie's Wanted Poster

In literacy Archie created this cool wanted poster. Other children made wanted posters of fairytale characters such as the Big Bad Wolf and Goldilocks .

Statue of Liberty

Emma created this fantastic model of the Statue of Liberty from recycled materials found on the ward.          

Catherine's Journey from Athlone, Irelan…

Click here to watch Catherine's Journey from Athlone, Ireland.          

Ben King - competition winner!

Ben King - competition winner!For many years the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has organised an extremely popular artwork competition for children in local schools, based on the themes...

Okioise

Madeleine (10) created this wonderful fantasy creature called an Okioise.   

Rose City News

    Lee Weller and Tony Joyce news reporters for Rose City News bring to you an interview from Mr and Mrs Veil the parents of Michael Veil who was lost at...

Check out this wild music lesson that Ka…

Trouble so Hard

Anitha, Bethany, Dawid, Jennifer, Kate and Zach listened to 2 versions of "Trouble so Hard"; the original by Vera Hall and then a much later version by Moby. Then they recorded...

Lenesha's Journey to School

Using Windows Movie Maker Lenesha has made a short film showing how she gets to school  

Big Boy

This term we are exploring the Blues in KS3/4 music.Catherine, Kieran and Tony listened to 2 versions of "Hound Dog", the original by Big Mama Thornton and the hit version by...

Rainbow

This term we are exploring the Blues in KS3/4 music.The Green group listened to 2 versions of "Hound Dog", the original by Big Mama Thornton and the hit version by Elvis. The...

Blurry Blues

This term we are exploring the Blues in KS3/4 music.Catherine, Danny and Kieran listened to John Lee Hooker and then recorded their own instrumental blues called Blurry Blues.

Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit

Here you can see Amy's tour around The Royal Brompton and Harefield's new Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit.        

My Maths

Click here to watch our numeracy lesson...          

Christmas Nativity Scene

Come take a look at our Christmas nativity scene...          

Get Back

We have been exploring the music of The Beatles. We listened to "Day in the life" and also "Get Back". Then we recorded our version of "Get Back" check it...

Kylie Minogue at The V&A Museum

Louise visited the Kylie Minogue exhibition at The V&A Museum.  Here is her Powerpoint presentation showing pictures and information that she collected.    

Recycled Fashion

Click here to watch our short film about recycled fasion...        

Jessica's visit to The Natural History M…

  Jessica and Steve recently took a trip to The Natural History Museum.  Whilst there they looked at the skeletal system and teeth, which we have been learning about in Science...

Octupus's Garden

In music we have been studying The Beatles. Christophe, Khanh-Ngan  and  Zena, recorded their version of "Octupus's Garden".

Self portrait by Jayden

In Youth Club Jayden created a self portrait from a number of individual photographs, cut out and stuck together.   

Watermelon map

The Green group have been experimenting with a variety of materials to produce art. Here they have created a map of the world made entirely from watermelon.  

Scarborough Fair

We have been exploring the music of the British Isles and Ellie sang her version of Scarborough Fair. Check it out.

Anti Bullying Poster

              John created a poster for primary school children to help explain the dangers of cyber bullying. He created the character using Paint and coloured in the picture using the smart...

Molly Malone

We have been exploring the music of the British Isles and this week we looked at Molly Malone.The primary children joined us for a performance.

Waterproof Materials

Here are Luke and Aleezah testing various materials to see if they were waterproof.      

Our Island Volcano

Click here to see pictures of our experiment.  Footage coming soon...          

Boats

Teyla-Marie was very proud of her boat that she made to sail to the island. Becky-Anne was really pleased with her boat. She even put her name on the...

Block Towers

Jaiden tried to build the tallest tower he could. It was even taller than himself!

Dinosaur Problem Solving

Gabriel worked really hard at sorting the dinosaurs into colour groups.Christian worked hard at sorting out all the yellow dinosaurs.

More Shape Patterns

Jaiden made this lovely pattern with the shapes too

Shape Patterns

Daisy made this great pattern with the different shapes

Bridge Building

As part of our Island theme we looked at bridges as a means of getting to an island. Students began by looking at photographs of various famous bridges...

Waterproof Materials

To help us with designing shelters for our Island we decided to test whether different materials were waterproof.  Student worked in pairs to devise a way of testing different...

Transformations

During this half-term we have been looking at different transformations, here students have moved shapes around a grid to show different translations and rotations.

ICT leaflet

George created a leaflet to help promote the ICT department within the school.  

Ten In The Bed

Watch our latest animation based upon the book 'Ten In The Bed'.          

My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

We listened to and discussed "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean". Then with help from Satu, Merja and Sari, our 3 visiting teachers from Finland, we recorded our own version. Check...

What shall we do with the grumpy teacher…

Broyny wrote new words for the song "What shall we do with the drunken sailor?" She then learnt the melody on the piano and recorded it. Check out her version...

Compositions

St Mary's students had the great opportunity of working with musicians from Wigmoore Hall for a period of 6 weeks. Over this time they composed and recorded these pieces of...

Pirates Caribean Song

Lady-Devine and Prince-Shercar wrote their own words for the song "What shall we do with the drunken sailor?" Check out their version here:

More Fashion Week!

Nafisa's t-shirt design was inspired by sweets and cakes. She made a 3D cupcake out of fabric and used coloured pom poms to create smarties. Very imaginative Nafisa, well done!

Fashion Week!

For fashion week Meryem created a "Flower Power" design. She adapted a white t-shirt using a net curtain and some purple fur and decorated it with a felt flower! Well...

Raquel's beautiful hand made bag

 Check out the fantastic bag Raquel has designed and made.              

Emma's Mermaid

Emma used fabric, wool, beads and paint to create this fantastic mermaid puppet for our classroom. Well done Emma!          

Lauryn and Picasso

 Lauryn has recreated Picasso's masterpiece Jacqueline in 3D all by herself.  Well done Lauryn!            

Eleanor at The Natural History Museum

Eleanor visited the Natural History Museum last week. Here are some photographs from the Wildlife Garden in the museum grounds.  

Chocolate World

We listened to different versions of "A Groovy Kind Of Love" which is based on a classical composition by Muzio Clementi. Amber and Amina wrote new words and with help from Daoud, Daniel, Fabina,...

My time at Brompton Hospital

Hattie took a series of photos of what she found near the Brompton hospital while staying in for treatment.Her project was "My time at Brompton Hospital" The elephants were exhibited...

Weird Song

Eleanor and Nicholas created a composition using two online music composition programs at a website called Aviary.

Collingham Newsletter 02

Pupils at Collingham worked with Clement to produce their second newsletter.

Autumn Melody

Jack created this relaxing composition called "Autumn Melody" on the keyboard. We recorded two versions and joined them together. In the first Jack played piano chords, and on the second he...

Don't Look Back in Anger

We have been exploring songs with interesting chord progressions. This week we recorded our version of "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis.    

Self Portrait No 2

Self Portait No 2"This is me having great fun, creating a portrait of myself"  by Chloe.Created with Katerina's help during Youth Club  

Researching and Writing fictional Text

Charlie and Emily were researching and writing new fictional text.

I can see clearly now

The green group have been studying  Jamaican music. Here they are singing "I can see clearly now"  

History of Jamaican music

Shanon made this great Powerpoint presentation showing the history of Jamaican music.  

Georgia's Beauty Journalism Interview

Read Georgia's interview with Sophie Qureshi, a beauty journalist who works for The National Magazine Company...        

Yasmin's Twilight Set Design

Click here to view Yasmin's fantasic Twilight New Moon set design...            

A love story

A short film about Verdi the Italian Puppet who is in love with Miss Marple the English Puppet…. filmed by Aaron and edited by Aaron, Louise and Andre. Hope you enjoy...

Photography vs Art

The Boys in the Blue Class have been experimenting with art forms.  

Pottery

The children learn valuable artistic and manual skills. They enjoy spending time in the pottery room...

Aliens

Rory wrote this fantastic story of aliens inspired by his drama lesson.    

Creativity Packs

The pupils had a great fun using the creativity packs!      

Trouble So Hard

The green group have been studying the Blues. Christina, Darren and Jake recorded their version of "Trouble So Hard"

Lullaby and bonus tracks

Michael (11) has been enjoying learning the guitar. This week he recorded 3 compositions. First a lullaby for 2 guitars, then a live improvisation for 2 guitars and finally he re wrote and sang his...

Trouble So Hard

In music we have been studying the Blues. Haben, Hong-An Dang, John, Lauren, Lee, Lewis, Ronnie and Zena recorded their version of "Trouble So Hard"

Tulips from Amsterdam

In music we have been exploring songs with a theme of gardens and plants. Khalid (11) and Siem (13) recorded their own version of "Tulips from Amsterdam"

Michael's Blues

Michael (11) has written a song in a Blues style about his experience of being stuck in hospital.

Octopus's Garden by Noella

Noella (11) learnt the words and accompaniment to "Octopus's Garden" by the Beatles.

Healthy Eating Cookbook

We have had an industrious half-term in Design and Technology. Primary and Secondary students have come together to design recipes for our Healthy Eating Cookbook with some fantastic and highly delicious...

Peter Pan Puppet Show

During the Spring half term at the Brompton children and staff put together a puppet show for children on the ward and across our other sites.  The show also included magic from The...

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got th…

This term in music we have been exploring Jazz. Khanh-Ngan, Hong-An Dang, Lily Rose, Ann, Abdul, Leo and Zena worked on "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"...

Couscous

Children learnt more about healthy eating today. They made a vegetarian couscous after having drawn a picture of what they wanted to put in their mix. They also wrote up their recipe...

Winter Song

Ahmad (5), Zuhair(7) and Tobi (13) have been reading and enjoying a poem called "Winter Song" by Katherine Mansfield.In our music session they decided to set it to music.  Listen...

Autumn Leaves

This term in music we have been exploring Jazz. Darren, Jake and Torsten worked on "Autumn Leaves" and here is their version of the A section:  

Football Teams

Chloe (8) has created this Power Point in PE. Chloe completed it at her bedside during the evening. What an amazing job Chloe. I wonder if you will end up...

Pirate Week

For creativity week we have used the topic of Pirates to teach across all of the subjects.          

Brilliant Bagels

Sam was given the challenge of designing a dream sandwich, the yummiest one that he could invent and would enjoy eating. He was so hungry that he decided he needed...

Perfect Pizza

 Our topic at St Mary's this term is Healthy Eating and we have been exploring foods that are healthy and some that are not so healthy! In art to link...

Collingham Newsletter 01

Pupils at Collingham worked with Clement to produce their first newsletter. Click here to read it. The pupils hope to produce a newsletter every half term.

Recycling

In Design Technology, children have learnt how all the stuff we would normally tend to throw away can be reused to create great things, from handbag to hats! Ronnie made a caterpillar...

Festivals

In RE we have been learning about festivals. On 6th January we looked at Epiphany. Ahmad and Zuhair designed crowns for the Three Kings.    

Snow Song

Our Comenius partner school in Finland sent us a Christmas song, Joulupuu on Rakennettu. it was tricky for us to sing in Finnish so Neve (5) and King-Elyon (6) wrote some new words and...

The Beatles Quiz

The Green group have been studying the music of The Beatles and Antonio, Darren, Jake and Torsten created The Beatles Quiz. Give it a try!

The twelve days of Christmas

Asmaa, Edward, Kalja and Nora re wrote the words to "The twelve days of Christmas". Listen to their version here:  

African music with IROKO

IROKO theatre company came to our class and got us all singing and dancing to their wonderful African music. Then they taught us to play a drumming song with them. You...

Derek and Dave Animation

Here is Franks fantastic animation called Derek and Dave which he created in his own time.          

Marchetta

Georgia (13) created this wonderful improvisation on piano which she named "Marchetta".  

Pom Pom Mice

In our DT lesson we made pom pom mice. Here is Ronnie proudly showing his super mouse called Silly. In the other picture we have Rebecca and Nelson's mice having...

Octopus's Garden

This term in music we will be exploring the music of The Beatles. Darren, Jake and and Torsten worked on "Octopus's Garden"" and here is their version:  

Sentence contruction

Khanh-Ngan has been working on her sentence contruction in her English sessions. See her work here:  

2D Shape Properties

Hong-An has been working really hard in his Maths sessions. See his Maths work here.

Lee's story about a Chelsea match

Lee wrote this story about a Chelsea match for his GCSE English coursework.

The effects of alcohol, smoking and ecst…

Jessica has been studying the effects of alcohol, smoking and ecstasy and she produced these leaflets aimed at young people.

The life cycle of a star

Jessica has been studying the life cycle of a start in her Science class.

Raessa's montage portraits

Raessa created this montages with Katerina's help during Youth club night. Lots of different photos cut out of newspapers and magazines were used and put together to create a series...

A winter scene with skaters near a castl…

Pupils worked with Mark from the National Gallery to produce their version of "A winter scene with skaters near a castle" by Hendrick - Avercamp.

The Scream

Tatyana (10) created this portrait based on the Scream by Edvard Munch.

3D Landscape

Tatyana (10) created this wonderful 3D landscape during her Art session using card, paper and paint.

Hand Puppets

Myla (7) made these hand puppets in her DT session and used them during her Drama sessions.

Paper Cats

Myla (7) made these paper cats in her DT session

Fondant Fancies

For my GSCE coursework I had to make 3D plaster cakes, using methods of pouring and painting I created 'Fondant Fancies'. I photographed them and manipulated them on the computer...

Can't Buy Me Love

This term in music we will be exploring the music of The Beatles. Antonio, Darren and Torsten worked on "Can't Buy Me Love"" and here is their version:  

The wintertime is coming

We have been studying the traditional music of the British Isles.Danny and Muna worked on "Will ye go lassie, go?"Danny re wrote the lyrics for a more wintery feel and...

The Star of the County Down instrumental

We have been studying the traditional music of the British Isles.Anna and Chloe worked on "The Star of the County Down" and here is their version.  

The Star of the County Down

The Green group have been studying the traditional music of the British Isles.Darren, Frances and Torsten worked on "The Star of the County Down" and here is their version.  

Creating a portrait of myself

"This is me having great fun, creating a portrait of myself"  by Chloe.This is a series of portraits taken during a youth club session with Katerina.  

The Time Machine

This years summer holiday programme theme was the time machine.  Please take a look at some of our holiday snaps...        

The Paper Bag Princess

In literacy we have been looking at traditional tales.  During our lesson we broke the stereotypes and performed the story The Paper Bag Princess for the children on the ward.          

My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean

We have been studying music of the British IslesHere is our version of "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" by Antonio, Darren and Frances from the Green Group 

Signs and Symbols

Scarborough Fair

We have been studying music of the British IslesHere is a version of Scarborough Fair by Katherine and JK    

Jessica's Trip to the Park

Click here to read Jessica's exciting trip to The Royal Brompton Hospital's local park...            

Art with the National Gallery

We have been very fortunate to have a termly visit from Viyki Turnbull an artist lecturer from the National Gallery. During her visits Vikki has been exploring some of the...

Brompton Art Gallery

Children at the Brompton have been very busy producing these fantastic works of art which have been framed and are currently on display outside the classroom on the 4th floor...

Cyber Safety

The Secondary pupils at St Mary's watched a film about the potential dangers of using social networking sites. They wrote some guidelines to advise other young people on how they...

The Hedgerow

Darrius recorded this description of hedgerow habitats and the types of plants and animals that can be found there. He first recorded it in Audacity and then added sound effects...

Interview with Miley Cyrus

A mock intereview with Miley Cyrus (Hanna Montana), written and performed by Sophie (13) and Rania (13).  

Hallelujah

Chloe has been practising her singing. Here is her version of Hallelujah.

Still life fruit compositions

These wonderful stiil life fruit compositions have been produced by Gus, Leon, Lottie and Safia. They used oil pastels to create the strong colours.        

Observational drawing

 Frankie, Jake, Jemima and Pao have been practising their observational drawing. These are a selection of their pencil sketches.

Seascapes

Alexander, Dane, Jamila and Malika created these seascapes using paint and collage techniques.

Tudor Portraits

Kyle, Leon and Lottie were studying the Tudors and created these portraits of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Catherine of Aragon.

Andy Murray - Wimbledon preview

In the lead up to Wimbledon we interviewed "Andy Murray" to see how he thought he'd do this year. {enclose Andy-Murray-interview.mp3}

Daniel's Land's End Soundtrack

Daniel created a soundtrack to a short film on Land's End using Magix Music Maker

Andy Murray - Wimbledon preview

In the lead up to Wimbledon we interviewed "Andy Murray" to see how he thought he'd do this year.

Kai's Land's End Soundtrack

Kai created a soundtrack to a short film on Land's End using Magix Music Maker

Land's End Soundtrack (CW)

Ryan and Samir created soundtracks to a short film on Land's End using Magix Music Maker

I wanna be like you

The Primary and Secondary pupils recorded their version of "I wanna be like you" from the Jungle Book

Wildlife of the African Savannah

We linked art with science this week and the students made these magnificent masks of animals who live in the African Savannah. Can you guess who is hiding behind the...

Green Group Composition

The Green Group created this composition using the chords C Em F and G

Tinkerbell Mania

Tinkerbell has been very popular at youth club and this lovely design was done by Claire using glass pens and pvc strips. Well done Claire this is really great!        

Skull Island

Over the summer half term Kacey (age 7) made this fantastic Treasure Island, map and jewelery...

Super Sushi

In Design Technology at the Brompton this term we have been making vegetable sushi.  Click here and you too can learn how to make it!!!

GEC Music

Ashley, Chloe and Issac created this composition using the chords G, Em and C, which is what gives it it's name!

Composition based on Pachelbel's Canon

Vrinda and Vrishni have been exploring Pachelbel's Canon. They played their version on keyboards and chime bars.

Yellow Submarine

Adedapo, Inas, Muad and Raheem have been exploring the ocean. In music they recorded their version of "Yellow Submarine" by the Beatles.

Logo Designs

Olga has created these wonderful designs for the school logo.

Puppet Show

Watch our puppet show - written, produced and directed by the primary class at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.

A very funny puppet show

During DT, Rhiannon and Malik created their very own puppet show with a funny storyline. They even put it on for the children on the ward and had extremely good...

Holiday in the Sun

This term we are working on composition in KS3/4 music.Shayna, Vrinda and Vrishni composed this song called Holiday in the Sun.

Space party at Chelsea

The children at Chelsea celebrated the end of half term by having their own 'Space' themed Party. They decorated the classroom and even made their own cake (not edible unfortunately).        

Our day at sea!

Argh! Pirates invaded Chelsea and Wesminster Hospital over half term during our 'Sea' theme. We also had fun making our own fish followed by an exciting fishing adventure in the...

Flowers by Sadiya

One of our super students Sadiya painted this beautiful picture. Well done Sadiya lovely work!          

Flowers by Sadiya

One of our super students Sadiya painted this beautiful picture of flowers. Well done Sadiya lovely work!          

English - Japanese Fusion Afternoon

This week at St Mary's the Primary and Secondary pupils combined their efforts at the end of their DT lessons for multi-cultural afternoon tea. The Sushi and Scones were enjoyed...

What our Ears do

The Red class have been learning about hearing today. We found out what an Ear Trumpet was used for in the days before Hearing Aids and had a go at...

MASKS!!

The Blue Class recently completed a terrific mask project!!        

Carousel Club

At club everyone wants to do something different. Kelly used the glass pens on PVC paper to create this lovely image of Tinkerbell.      

Anna's Clown Circuit

 Click here to watch Anna's clown in action...      

Pizza Express

In DT we did food technology which involved making yummy pizzas. Dean took the responsibility of being Head Chef and he made himself and all the teaching staff a delicious...

The story behind my scar

  Rebekah wrote this wonderful story and added sound effects with assistance from her mum.

The Wooden Horse

In English we have been studying Greek mythology. We read the story of the "Wooden Horse of Troy" and two of our amazing pupils made these fantastic horse models using cardboard boxes,...

Al Capone

In Music we have been exploring Ska music. Here's our version of "Al Capone" by Prince Buster. 

La Cuisine

How to make cheese cake with Madame Evian...  

Harry's MotorCross collage

Harry made this collage by cutting out pictures from his favourite magazine, click here to view a larger image.

Layla's Ancient Egyptian Art Project

The reason why I have chosen to compare both my culture and the ancient Egyptian culture is because I thought the contrast might make it more interesting.

At the Hop

Pupils at St Mary's  recorded a version of "At the Hop". check it out here

Shayna's Blues

Shayna recorded a Blues improvisation on the piano.check it out  

Chelsea Physic Garden

Collingham took advantage of a lovely spring day to visit the beautiful, secluded and secret, Chelsea Physic Garden!         

Poppy Scott's Art

Art work by Poppy while she was at St. Mary's.    

Hound Dog re write

Primary pupils at St Mary's re wrote the words to Elvis' song "Hound Dog" and recorded their version - check it out!  

This Is Me Poster

These are some of 'This is me' poster created by students once they have finished their 'This is me' worksheet and PowerPoint presentation.

George’s Mother's Day Card

This is George’s work from last Friday. He managed to hold the pens (one at a time!) in his teeth, while Linda moved the paper around.    

Unidentified shape!

PLEASE HELP US FIND THE NAME OF THIS SHAPE!          

Maths: Shapes

PLEASE HELP US FIND THE NAME OF THIS SHAPE!            

Art Project Work

These are some of the art work of students at Chelsea and Westminster.

Vicky's Effective Story

Vicky (8) read the story of 'We're going on a bear hunt'.  She decided on different ways of making sounds in the story.  Georgie read out the story, whilst Vicky...

Mother's Day Gifts

The primary class made these beautiful mother's day gifts

Stained Glass Windows

In Youth Club two of the girls decided to design their own stained glass windows using pvc strips and glass pens. The results as you can see are fantastic!!!      

The Red T-Shirt Company

The Red Class transform into 'The RED T-shirt Company!'        

Science - Electricity

Do lemons make good batteries?      

Chicken Blues

In music the Green group have been studying the Blues. They re wrote the words to Elvis' song "Hound Dog" and recorded 2 versions - check them out!

Sam's Lego Videos

One of our students Sam loves Lego and was inspired to make his own Lego movies after watching some Lego movies on Youtube.

Ashlee's Hip-Hop Shrine!

The Green Class Shrine project, led to the creation of Ashlee's Hip-Hop Shrine!  

Shrines!

The Green Class recently undertook a project about shrines with resident artist Shaun.      

Star Trekking

In our music session we performed this intergalactic song.

Brompton Blues

Chloe and Theo studied the Blues and recorded their own "Brompton Blues" composition.

Chloe's montage

 Chloe's montage of a portrait she created during youth club.        

Home-made books

The green group made their own personalised books with our artist in residence.

Forces - Friction

 Hamish is ready to release his balloon-propelled rocket  

Forces - Air Resistance

We made parachutes for eggs to experiment with air resistance  

Trip to the Lamborghini showroom

Watch Daniel take a ride in a Lamborghini at the local Lamborghini showroom. 

The Lamborghini Garage

  Here you can watch Daniel take a ride out in a Lamborghini at the local Lamborghini garage!!!

Iconic London Landmarks and Attractions

Here you can see the primary classrooms sculptures and drawings of iconic landmarks and attractions.    

Our Puppets

Please take a look at our brilliant puppets that we made for Design Technology in the primary classroom...  

My Separate World

In her English session Hattie wrote this amazing story called "My Separate World" Then in her music session she recorded herself reading it and arranged and added a musical accompaniment.

The Night of the Living Vegetables!

Hattie composed a piece of music and then decided that she would create an animation to go with it.Here it is - The Night of the Living Vegetables!  

Marissa's Mask

       Here you can see Marissa (14) plastering Ben (One of our teaching assistants) faces as part of her GCSE Art unit self-image.    

The Blob

Watch our latest animation 'The Blob', animated and directed by Alex age 13.

Forces - Buoyancy

 How can we counter gravity whilst on the water?

Second World War

In History we are looking at the second world war and focusing on the blitz when London was bombed by the Germans. Khalil was demonstrating how to wear a gas...

String operated moving toys

In DT we designed some string operated moving toys. Rufayda chose to make this lovely heart design and Jodie chose to do the fine St Georges' flag.      

My stay at Chelsea and Westminster

Taylor took these photos taken during the Youth Club photography session. She called them "My stay at Chelsea & Westminster"

They said it wouldn't hurt!

Amina took this photo during her Youth Club photography session (one of her many photos). Her comment for it is: "They said it wouldn't hurt!"

My old man's a dustman

Iara, Usman, Samiyah, Miles and Bilal played and sang on this funny song. Helen, Nicola and Martin helped out.

Do your ears hang low?

Iara, Usman, Samiyah, Miles and Bilal played and sang on this funny song. Helen, Nicola and Martin helped out.

Indian Music

We are exploring Asian music and here is a recording of our improvisation in an Indian classical style

Indian Music

We are exploring Asian music and here is a recording of our improvisation in an Indian classical style

Splatts Circus

Splatts Circus came to visit us at Chelsea & Westminster.Clowning around came very naturally to the Hospital School staff!

IROKO

Iroko came to Chelsea and Westminster yesterday. We had great fun playing African instruments and learning how to dance.

Jupiter's Angels

Zoe, Vicky and Rosemary created this collaborative collage titled "Jupiter's Angels" in the Youth Club session.

3 Dimensional Portrait

A collaborative 3 dimensional portrait mobile made from newspaper and plaster bandage.  

Fingerprint

A fingerprint art work of a fingerprint by Primary pupils.

Caricature by Oliver

A fun caricature painting of a Doctor using acrylic paints by Oliver.

Spot Art

A collaborative project by secondary pupils inspired by Damien Hurst's spot and spin paintings.

Punk Head

Rhys modelled this punk head out of clay.

Photos by Lucy

"Here are some of the photographs I've taken around the hospital"Lucy

Photos by Veta

"These are a collection of small things that have caught my eye while lying in my bed. I would just like to thank all of my nurses who have kept...

Stuart's Trip to Arsenal and the Emirate…

  Come take a tour of Arsenal's football stadium The Emirates with Stuart...

Disney characters

Louise coloured in this picture with all our favourite Disney characters.

Rainbow Picture Frame

Raessa created this wonderful picture frame using cardboard, masking tape and mod roc. She then painted it with acrylic paint.

Piggy Bank

Claire made this Piggy bank using a balloon, mod roc and tablet pots! She then decorated it with acrylic paints.

Autumn Leaves

We have been studying Jazz in our music sessions. Pupils at all sites have worked together on a joint recording of the famous jazz tune Autumn Leaves. We also included...

Halloween Dance Off

Click here to watch our Halloween Dance Off animation...

Jungle Fever

Here you can watch William's (10) excellent animation of an elephant...

Abilasan's Skeleton

Here you can see Abilasan's brilliant moveable skeleton...  

Basil the Cat

In Drama Bonnie (8) made this beautiful picture and poem about her cat Basil.

Skye Boat Song at BH

Dylan and "Anonymous"  recorded this version of the Skye Boat Song. Dylan played string sound on the Keyboard, Anonymous played chime bars and Martin played piano.

Skye Boat Song by Michael

Michael recorded this version of the Skye Boat Song on the piano, he harmonised the melody and arranged Martin to play an accompaniment on the keyboad  

Molly's tambourine

Molly (9) made this fantastic tambourine in DT.

The Skye Boat Song

Pupils recorded their version of the Skye Boat Song.Hilmy (12) played the chimebars, Lee (13) played Xylophone and Tosin (14) played the bass notes on the keyboard. Helen sang and...

Molly Malone by the Green group

The Green group have been exploring folk music.Here's their version of Molly Malone. Hamish played xylophone and Brandon played a string sound on the keyboard and sang. Sandra and Martin...

Lottie's Name Plate

Lottie (10) sculpted this fantastic name plate out of red clay, decorating superbly with two different coloured slips.      

Molly Malone by Michael and William

We have been exploring folk music. Michael played piano and his brother William played drums on this version of Molly Malone

Star of the County Down

Shona and Dylan listened to different versions of this Irish song and then recorded their own version. Naomi, Martin and Robin helped out.

Summer Break Masterpieces

See some of the great work produced over the summer

"This is my view of my hospital sta…

Susannah age 12 years took these photos of her stay in hospital and titled them"This is my view of my hospital stay"

Space Adventure

Here you can watch our space adventure animation created by Jade (8), Yeh Bin (4) and Maisie (6)...

Raquel's Portraiture

Raquel (10) sculpted this beautiful piece of work using clay. To make such vivid facial expressions she looked at how to safely attach clay pieces together to bring her work to...

Off to California

Pupils at St Marys have been studying music of the British Isles. Janani and Rahin recorded their version of an Irish tune called "Off to California"

Kung Fu Panda Animation

Here you can watch Jacob and Jay's Kung Fu Panda animation...

Zac's Chime Time

Zac created this relaxing duet with Martin, playing only the black notes on the piano

Loch Lomond by Toni

Toni has been studying folk music from the British Isles. Listen to her playing the melody of "Loch Lomond", a song from Scotland.

Scarborough Fair by Edward Nahid Tarazi

Edward has been studying folk music from the British Isles. Listen to him singing Scarborough Fair, a song from England.  

Loch Lomond by the Green group

In the Green group pupils have been studying music of the British IslesHere they are singing Loch Lomond

Brompton Mosaic's

Come take a look at our fantastic mosaics created in our summer holiday programme...

Self Portrait by Toni

Self portrait by Toni

Photos by Thomas

 "My time at hospital. A collection of pictures from my bed and my stay here. Some self portraits of me, the view from my bed and other scenes"

Photos by Kayonbhola

Kayonbhola took these photos during Youth Club session.

Photos by Bengi

"This is a small part of my photographic diary from my stay this time at C&W" by Bengi

Photos by Ashleigh

"My first photos after the operation" by Ashleigh

Kings and Queens composition

Imogen, Liam, Orla and Sasha in the Green Group recorded their own composition with help from Parule and Martin.They called it Kings and Queens

Mohammed's Poem

Mohammed wrote this wonderful poem, listen to him reading it here

Kai and Frank Lampard

 Kai (11) painted Frank Lampard using acrylic paints and when completed gave it to his older sister Demi to brighten up her room.  

Steel Drum Fever by Toni

Toni played a Steel Pan sound on the keyboard for her reggae composition

Hawaiian Reggae by Sarah

Sarah recorded her reggae composition using a Steel Pan sound on the keyboard

Greensleeves by Sarah

Sarah plays the Oboe. In music she found the Oboe sound on the keyboard and played the tune Greensleeves as a a duet.

Rivers of Babylon - with Georgia and Gle…

In KS3 / 4 music we are exploring reggae music.Check out our recording

Three Little Birds - at St Marys

In KS3 / 4 music we are exploring reggae music.Check out our recording

Three Little Birds - from Chelsea

In KS3 / 4 music we are exploring reggae music.Check out our recording

Three Little Birds

In KS3 / 4 music we are exploring reggae music. Check out our recording  

Stuarts Road to Wembley

Come take a tour of Wembley Football Stadium with Stuart (15)

Hold Up by Jessi

Jessi made these this great composition in Music using Magix Music Maker

Music compositions by the Green Group

In the Green group pupils have created their own compositions using Magix Music Maker. Check out these great sounds!

Carnivorous Plants

In Science Mohammed has been learning about carnivorous plants. Here's Mohammed with his Bug-Eating-Plant that he designed and made out of plasticine in Design and Technology.        

Composition by Ascia and Marissa

Ascia and Marissa created this great composition in music using Magix Music Maker  

Priya & Rebecca's photos

Priya & Rebecca took these great photos in the photography Class

"The ill girls that are happy toget…

Here is a portrait taken in the Photography Class called "The ill girls that are happy together" by Mulke & Kaylie

My Hospital Stay by Kieren

Kieran took these great photos called "My Hospital Stay" in the Photography Class

Mean girls as fairies

Rhianna wrote this great poem called Mean girls as faries

Darkness

A Poem by secondary pupil

Secret

A group poem

Sahara

A poem by Chloe 

Othibo is like a bomb

A poem by Joao 

Life is an enigma

A poem by Trang

In The Jungle

A poem by Troy

Days go past

A poem by Zac

Anthony H's Composition

Anthony H explored the guitar in the music session. He practised tuning it and looked at chord shapes and sounds. Then he recorded this guitar composition,. He got Martin to change...

Lovely Lemonade

   Anthony (15) created this refreshing lemonade recipe in Design Technology.

Brain Squeezer

Come take a look at our eerie skull with jelly for brains.  Amongst the brainy goo we filled the skull full of questions and tested our general knowledge.

Sarah's Photos

Photography Class Sarah has taken a series of photos of herself, her sister and friends at Katerina's Photography class

A day in the life of Daniel, Ben, Tom

Photography Class Daniel, Ben and Tom produced these wonderful photos at Katerina's Photography Class

Photo Diary

Photography Class Chloe produced this portrait at Katerina's Photography Class

African Music

Pupils at Collingham have been studying African Music. Here are two recordings of their music

Design and Technology

In Design and Technology lessons with Steve we have been focusing this term on keeping things safe. Here are some photo frames that Suganthan (4) and Rania (7) have designed and created to...

A sticky pretty picture

 Sofia (4) made this very pretty sticky picture out of tissue paper and felt. It looks beautiful, well done Sofia!    

Piggy Banks

In Design Technology we have been looking at keeping precious things safe.  As part of this topic we have made piggy banks.

A Poem by Joseph

Read this great poem by Joseph    

All Questions Answered

Figuring why sometimes I never Ask for, just let the heart talk for itself Beliefs in its own way from Silence by my ears that felt Touchy by the moment...

Funky Bunny Poem by the Red Group

Read the Red Groups great poem

Fairy Cakes

Melissa (9) made these extremely delicious fairly cakes which really did taste as scrumptious as the look.    

Aboriginal style artwork

Anna (8) painted this amazing picture entitled 'Pomegranite' in an Aboriginal style using just paint and cotton buds!      

Callum's Incredible Iron-Man

Over the half term holidays Callum (10) was inspired by one of his computer games to create the comic book character Iron-Man.

Portraiture at The Royal Brompton

At The Royal Brompton this term we have been studying portraiture and creating our own portraits with oil paints and acrylic on canvas.

Polydrons

Using Polydrons Ben (12) made an irregular 3 dimensional shape

GCSE Geography Trip to Sayers Croft

Last week we took our only GCSE geography student to Sayers Croft Field Centre to conduct field investigation for his coursework. There he joined a group of year 10 students...

Chinese New Year

We have been learning about Chinese New Year Celebrations. Take a look at the pictures of some of the dragons we painted!  

Not so Blues

We are studying the Blues in KS3/4 music and pupils at Chelsea recorded this cheerful Blues which they called the Not so Blues. Shayna and Rosemary played xylophone, Layla and Becky...

Harry's Chinese New Year Dragon

To mark the Chinese New Year (Thursday 7th February) Harry (8) painted this scary looking dragon in Art at the Brompton.

Art Work

Adnan (4) painted these absolutely fantastic pictures. Well done! 

Houses of Parliament

Next Mohammed (16) went on to make the Houses of Parliament. Where-else in the world is he going to be off to next!?  

Sydney Opera House

Mohammed (16) has really got into our Design and Technology project. He made this fantastic scale model of the Sydney Opera House.

Wind Turbine