Many thanks to Shaun and Charlotte for all their hard work over the past nine months with the board of HOPE. At last week's General Assembly they stepped down from the interim post of Secretary of HOPE. And congratulations to Martin who was voted on as a new board member.
You can read more and donate to this project here: www.rbhcharity.org/News/hospital-school-young-patients
Read Well at School's latest blog post Looking for HOPE
A huge thank you to everyone who sponsored Martin running the London Landmarks half marathon for the Royal Brompton Hospitals Charity. Together we raised over £300!
The Easter holidays are here and we will be running a Holiday Programme across some of our school sites. Our fabulous team of teaching assistants, artists, and musicians will provide fun activities in our schoolrooms. The holiday programme is funded by our charity FCCHS. Our teaching team will be back on Tuesday, April 19th. Wishing you all a relaxing break.
We have a vacancy for a Learning Assistant who has English A level. A chance to work in a challenging and unpredictable environment. Immediate start.
We have a vacancy for an English teacher who is confident with teaching GCSE & A Levels. A chance to work in a challenging and unpredictable environment.
Read our latest Well at School blog post
Please sponsor Martin, who will be running the Landmarks half marathon in April for the RBH Charity!
As we begin to lift restrictions it is important for every school to reflect on what they are doing to put positive relationships at the centre of their work. If we’ve learned anything in these last two years it has to be that we are stronger when we work together. Read more on the latest Well at School blog post.
If you took part in our Sparks Wellbeing project please can you take our short survey?
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Win a Forest Holiday worth £500 in one of 11 locations across the UK. Please support our school charity for a chance to win this fab prize.
Watch our 2021 Xmas Music Video here.
And we wish you all a peaceful and relaxing holiday.
We are delighted to receive the Healthy Schools Silver Award. Many thanks to Marie C for all her hard work!
Read our Well at School's end-of-year blog post here.
Wishing you a restful and peaceful holiday time.
Children and young people living with chronic health conditions are more likely to be victims of bullying than their peers. Read our Well at School's blog post.
We were delighted to attend the inaugural charity event ‘Not All Heroes Wear Capes” during the Chelsea vs Norwich City game.
We would like to thank the newly amalgamated Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster chamber of commerce and thank them for their ongoing support of our school and charity.
The Rotary Clubs of Chelsea and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea have been an excellent support to CCHS.
A huge thank you to Action Amanda for helping to raise £425 for our school charity!
Students at our Bayswater site were delighted on the arrival of a real piano, donated to us by MiSST - thank you!
Colourful benches for Bayswater were kindly donated by AA Studio, New Look and LG production.
Staff at Bayswater have created this wonderful balcony garden for students at our Bayswater school site.
You are invited to Action Amanda’s Exclusive 30th Birthday Party, all proceeds to our school charity. Book here: www.amandasactionclub.co.uk/classes/
Students at Lavender Walk began an exciting project with musicians from the City of London Sinfonia. They worked with Gawain to create compositions using field recordings of a marsh in Suffolk along with Matt on viola and playing instruments in the classroom. We took inspiration from the book Diary of a Naturalist by Dara McAnulty, the memoir of an autistic teenage boy and his passion for nature.
We are delighted that Shaun, our artist in residence, has taken up the position of Secretary of HOPE. Shaun will be assisted by Charlotte. We also send a huge thank you to Kim, who has previously worked so hard in the role of HOPE Secretary.
Congratulations to our ex-student, Melissa, who got a first in Nutrition this year.
Read our latest blog post over on Well at School as we start a new school year.
Help support our Crowdfunder to help raise funds for complimentary reflexology sessions for patients at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Please donate whatever you can afford; every donation, large or small, is most welcome.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/soothing-hands-zonal-therapy
Over the past four weeks students at Collingham and Lavender Walk have been making music with musicians Jackie, Dan, Luke and Hermione.
Read Well at School's latest blog post reflecting back over the recent school year Read it here
Young people at Lavender Walk wrote thank you messages to nurses and support workers on international nurses' day.
Together we raised £1470 to help support Cissy train to be a teacher in Uganda. Thank you to everyone who made this possible through their generosity. This is the most wonderful success for Cissy, we are all so very delighted for her, another story of how despite facing difficult medical problems it is still possible to achieve your life goals.
Help us fundraise to support Cissy train to be a primary school teacher in Uganda.
At Collingham we have been working on creating an outdoor classroom, complete with it's own pond.
Our school has been recognised with a Mayor’s Award in the category of Local Community Organisation for our work supporting the educational, emotional and mental well-being of chronically and terminally ill children in the RBKC borough. You can watch the ceremony here at 7pm on Thursday 25th March.
Read Classic FM's article on our music project with MiSST starting at the Bayswater Centre.
Read this lovely letter from Maria who spent time with us as a student.
A huge thank-you to the Brompton Fountain for our five new laptops!
As schools welcome back most students we have two requests. Read about them here.
Can you guess which book characters our staff dressed up as?
We had a fantastic World Book Day today. Ava chose to dress up as Alice in Wonderland, Deirdre was the Cat from 'Room on the Broom' and Charlotte was from 'A Day at the Beach'! The highlight of the day was when was Robin joined our session dressed as Super Burrito! A great day filled with stories, poems and laughter. Happy World Book Day 2021!
Our School Lottery is now live and there are some impressive prizes to be won and a chance to win £25k. Please support our school charity, tell your friends and buy a ticket today. Thank you! :-)
The sun is shining, showing up my rain and mud-streaked windows - surely there has been time for a spring clean? Thank goodness the relentless rain causing parks to be sodden has lifted. Even my dog, Dolores, began to run and hide when the lead came to take her for yet another freezing cold walk - yes, we have warmth, light and some freedom to look forward to.
Read our new section on Anxiety Based School Avoidance (ABSA), over on Well at School
We are really excited to be starting a music project with the team at MiSST (The Music in Secondary Schools Trust). Here's Learning Mentor Lala, with one of our students - all ready to learn to play their new violins!
Staff at Lavender Walk celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week.
The theme this year is Express Yourself. Check here for resources for parents and carers.
Congratulations to Tatyana our Learning Assistant who is featuring in the Changing Faces #PledgeToBeSeen campaign with Sleek MakeUP, challenging out-dated beauty stereotypes and positively representing people with visible differences.
Our English teacher got a puncture cycling in to work this morning. Luckily it was near to where our Music teacher was working from home - puncture fixed! Now watch out for that ice!
Check out our list of resources to help parents and carers support children learning from home.
Paul, our science and maths teacher is also a musician, and he just released an album with his band, Araluen. You can hear it here: And There It Is
We are currently looking to recruit a new member to our school governing body. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. More details here.
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We have set up Amazon Smile for our school charity. If you use Amazon please use our link for your purchases. It doesn't cost you any extra but the school charity FCCHS gets 0.5% each time! Thank you.
Checkout the latest blog post "What can schools learn?" on our Well at School website.
Listen to our Xmas Musical Medley with special guests!
We've got two Xmas videos this year, a reflection on the year and a musical medley, enjoy!
As the school term and 2020 draw to a close it seems a good time to stop and reflect. Read our blog post on Well at School.
Sit down and watch the our video 2020 at CCHS.
Season's Greetings from all of us!
Checkout our Christmas activity ideas over on our Sparks Wellbeing Erasmus website: http://sparkswb.eu/christmas-craft-cooking-kindness/
Well at School has compiled a list of resources to help parents and carers support learning from home.
Check out the new children's work on SPARKS, our Erasmus wellbeing project involving six schools from England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, and Poland.
We are wearing odd socks today for #AntiBullyingWeek to show we are all #unitedagainstbullying #OddSocksDay
Bully Free, our participatory art project, is a creative activity you can use with your students for #antibullyingweek www.bullyfree.org.uk
Read our new post on Staff Wellbeing over at Well at School.
We are all so proud of Tatyana, our learning assistant, who recently presented at the evidence session for the Women and Equalities Committee enquiry into body image. Watch the session here:
Wishing you all a very relaxing half-term break. We have staff training days on Fri 23rd Oct and Mon 2nd Nov and so will re-open again on Tuesday 3rd Nov. We look forward to seeing you then!
A huge thank you to Action Amanda who are donating a percentage of profits from their Wash Your Hands song to our hospital school.
Our school staff are wearing yellow today to show their support for World Mental Health Day 2020. Follow the #HelloYellow hashtag!
Can you help the students of Lavender Walk make a difference? They have decided to adopt the RSPCA as their chosen charity and help raise money to support the work that it does. The RSPCA is the leading UK animal welfare charity. They work to prevent harm and cruelty to animals. They also rescue, rehabilitate and rehomes animals in need. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much. Every donation, large or small, helps.
One of our teachers, Helen, has written a blog post for Well at School on the challenges of teaching throughout lockdown. Read it here.
Our Aviva Crowdfunding page to help Keep Vulnerable Pupils Learning During Covid is now live! Please spread the word and donate, if you can!
Students at Lavender Walk have been taking part in a Marbling and Music workshop with artist Chloe Cooper and musician Jackie Walduck. Take at look at what they've been creating. We hope to post some of their musical compositions next week.
CCHS has achieved a Bronze award, the first stage of the Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Award.
We are delighted to be nominated as a Music Mark School.
Checkout Well at School's blog post on helping to support children returning to school over the coming weeks.
Checkout our list of resources and activities to help keep students busy and engaged over the summer holidays.
One of our teachers, Angela, will be doing a charity parachute jump in aid of Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis on 15th August 2020. If you have any money spare please sponsor her and support this vital charity!
Congratulations to our students on Foulis Ward who won prizes (Westfield, Amazon and restaurant vouchers!) in a recent writing competition.
Read a year 10 student's account of their experience of returning to school for their one allotted week this summer term. Read it on Well at School here:
Read the reports from our European partener schools here
A letter to parents, students and carers of our community students.
Read the latest news from Janette Steel, our school Principal.
Our lovely reflexologist Sarah is in the choir at Battersea Power Station and this is their virtual choir with a Sting! Extraordinary Sarah is working with patients virtually using her special style of reflexology.
In 2012 we took part in a collaborative art project with students from UNWRA schools in Gaza. We were then delighted when Jehan and Mohammed, their teachers from Gaza, came to stay with us in London to help finalise the project.
We are currently redesigning of our Hospital School website and we need your help. Please could you take 5 minutes to answer 10 short questions about our current school website?
Here's the link to the questionnaire.
Well at School has published a new section on supporting children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA).
This week we are posting animations made by children over the years. Check them out on our social media.
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Here's two videos from 10 years ago. Our 20th celebrations and a video showing what we do in the school Have a look!
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We are all sorry to say farewell to Dr Max Denning who is stepping down as Chair of Governors. Max has been a huge support to us and we would like to thank him for his tireless work for our school. David Mytton will now be the interim chair, and Ben Marshall will assume the vice-chair role. See below for a message from Max, and we wish him all the very best for the future.
Phoenix Education Consultancy wrote a blog post for Well at School on the findings of their survey exploring children and young people's views about returning to school as lockdown is lifted. Read it here.
Well at School have published a new section on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, written by Prof. Esther Crawley, Dr Roxanne Parslow, Dr Maria Loades and Amberly Brigden at the Centre for Academic Child Health.
We are delighted that Karen has returned to help us clear our admin backlog!
It's Mental Health Awareness Week and the topic is Kindness.
Well at School have created a new COVID-19 resource for schools, with information and advice on learning from home, wellbeing, transition and research.
Two of our students, who have been missing each other, get to meet up again to say hello on a Teams video call, along with Lala, Faith, Deirdre and Charlotte.
Our musician Brian has written a song called "All The Way" to bring encouragement to us all, in these difficult times.
Our teachers continue to work with some of our most vulnerable young people. Here we have our musician, Brian, teaching online from home.
Our teachers continue to work with some of our most vulnerable young people. Sometimes this means working from home. Here we have our principal, Janette, with her two assistants and John, our geography, computing and IT teacher.
Eva Leung came to work with us, at Lavender Walk, as a learning assistant on Thursday 19th March and finished on Friday 3rd April. This is probably one of the shorted stays that anyone has ever had with us, however in those short weeks Eva made the biggest impression. Eva came at a time when schools were closing, transport reducing, and society going into lockdown – in short the most challenging of times. This did not deter Eva, she got fully ‘stuck in’ to supporting the young people and their learning on the unit. She was a tremendous help to her teaching colleagues and just great to work with. Eva you made such a huge impression on everyone and we want to thank you for your commitment from Day 1. We wish you every success in your new job, they are so lucky to have you! Good luck and thank you!
Our teachers are continuing to work with some of our most vulnerable young people. Here we have Andy, Marie and Shaun at Lavender Walk.
As many children and young people continue to access education at home Well at School has been researching useful resources that have been created to help parents, carers and teachers make learning away from school both accessible and engaging. We will be reviewing and adding to this resource list over the coming weeks.
Our teachers are continuing to work with some of our most vulnerable children. Here we have Robin at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Helen and Marius at The Portland Hospital.
At this time of year we would usually be celebrating spring through our Easter service, with children singing, reading poetry, and sharing their art work, this always brings a joy to our hearts, there is a sense of growth and refreshment. However, now we are all in a different place, some of us quite alone, missing our wider families and concerned about the future. A lonely and worrying time for us all, I want to assure you that we will be with you to share any concerns you have about your child's education, their next step in their journey to college, and to support them in assessing their levels for their exams.
Over the next few weeks we will be filling our social media with art created by children in hospital.
Follow us and checkout the #arttakeover!
Well at School have put together information from trusted sources that parents and carers will find useful for supporting learning at home in the weeks ahead.
The latest advice and guidance for schools, parents and carers during the Coronavirus pandemic from Well at School.
CCHS is following up-to-date national guidance regarding Coronavirus. The most up-to-date guidance from the NHS can be found here: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us.
We celebrated World Book Day by searching for Paddington Bear in deepest, darkest Peru. At Chelsea, star of the show was primary pupil Sienna - dressed in a wonderful homemade costume as Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree. Staff love to dress up too - Jags as Harry Potter, Charlotte as the clockwork clown from Amelia Jane, Deirdre as the bunny from Amelia Jane and Jonny as a character from a pupil, Lauren's, own story "The Possessed Teacher". Children also designed some Roald Dahl character masks and made Roald Dahl themed pottery, as Roald Dahl is our theme for the term.
Congratulations to Michelle who has officially been recognized as the fastest South African woman in her category on two wheels!
Congratulations to Denise for winning the No Boundaries Award for the amazing work she does teaching cricket to the children and young people at the hospital school.
A huge thank-you to our wonderful FCCHS volunteers who organised a cake sale for our school charity.
We were delighted to welcome students and teachers from our Hungarian Erasmus partner schools from our Sparks - Wellbeing project.
Follow our special World Mental Health Day hashtag #cchswmd to see what our students have been doing.
We need a holistic approach to the health, education and care needs of all young people. Read Well at School's review of the recommendations of this new report.
We were delighted to receive this letter from the Mayor of RBKC.
Welcome back to all the students and teachers, we have had a great welcome from Lavender Walk who have missed the teachers hugely - and greeted them with bribes of chocolate to make them promise they would not go away again!
At the other hospitals, there has been a holiday programme each day staffed by the learning mentors, teaching assistants, our famous artist of course and also we welcomed back two of our students who have worked through the school holidays with great energy and verve bringing much fun and laughter to the summer. Thank you all so very much, from the reports from the wards and especially Collingham it is clear your ideas and presence supported the nursing team.
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We have a vacancy for an IT support engineer. Are you looking for a new challenge in a creative and unpredictable environment? Would you like to put your advanced IT skills to good use in our hospital school covering 7 sites in west London? Are you interested in and fascinated by IT systems?
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The pupils at the newest addition to the Chelsea Hospital School, Lavender Walk, Adolescent Unit enjoyed their own private screening of Men in Black: International, in the CW+ MediCinema at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, on Friday 12th July.
A big thank you to @LushVictoria for bringing their magic to our hospital school. They ran an amazing workshop for our children over the summer holidays, teaching us how to make blackberry and treasure chest bath-bombs! Thanks, Lush, you are amazing!
We are looking for one or two experienced minibus driver volunteers, with a clean driving license. If you have some time to spare on Wednesdays (9.30am - 12.00) and/or Fridays from (12-4pm) we would love to hear from you. MiDAS training provided. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Tel: 0203 315 8672 /3
Janette's speech at our celebration of 30 years of the Chelsea Community Hospital School. Thank you to everyone who came along to join us in our celebrations and an extra special thank you to Nissa who organised the whole event. :)
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts’ Adopt a School Trust. Chef Ashley Marsh, will deliver food education sessions to young people at Lavender Walk, our adolescent mental health unit. Read here for all the details.
Listen to Helen talking about some of the great work we have been doing to to engage children who have medical needs in education.
Please vote for her here!
We are delighted to be working in partnership with Bright Futures who will be supporting us with their full range of programmes to ensure "ILLNESS DOESN'T DEFINE US".
We have a vacancy for an English teacher who is confident with teaching GCSE & A Levels. A chance to work in a challenging and unpredictable environment.
Congratulations to Lloyd who was Ordained as a Deacon by the Bishop of Ely on the 30th June 2019. On a beautiful sunlit day in the magnificent Ely Cathedral with its exquisite stained glass windows, we were honoured as members of CCHS and former colleagues of Lloyd to be in invited to be witnesses as he was ordained as a Deacon.
Thank you to Lysiane and family for kindly donating an electric piano to our school - just when our old one broke!
Janette and Maria presented Well at School at the RSA Rawthmells Friday Conversations and enjoyed a stimulating conversation about mental health and wellbeing in schools.
A HUGE THANK YOU to our local Fara Kids Charity shop for donating such lovely items for Charlotte to take with her to Uganda for the Mother & Baby unit. Good luck & Bon voyage Charlotte!
Two members of our staff, Shaun Dolan (Artist in Residence) and Charlotte Thorpe (English Coordinator for Key Stage 1 and 2) have been very busy working with other countries on their project 'Making Your Mark'.
Well at School will be presenting at the Friday Conversation this Friday 14/06 at 12pm at RSA, London. Join us!
The teachers at Lavender Walk would like to send a THANK YOU to Beth and Kel at Mountain Warehouse, for donating reusable water cannisters to our young people. We've been focusing on making our classroom more sustainable, reducing waste and single-use plastic, and this definitely helps!
The thanksgiving service was held on 23 May 2019, at Westminster Abbey, the original Westminster Hospital was built in 1840 in Broad Sanctuary, just opposite the Abbey.
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We currently have vacancies for two teachers, a finance officer, and an IT support engineer. Click for more details.
Come to our Open Day and find out all about our Hospital School on 27th June from 4pm - 6pm at our Chelsea and Westminster school site. Please let Karen know if you would like to attend on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 02033158672
We have written Advice for parents/carers to enable parents/carers to work with a child’s school to get the help they need to continue accessing education whatever their medical or mental health condition.
One of our teachers, Marie, recently attended NIMH's Youth Mental Health First Aiders course. Read her review here.
Emily, a mental health nurse, is running 10k to raise money for equipment for the sensory room at Lavender Walk. Please sponsor her here!
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Students and staff came together for an Easter celebration in the Chapel of St Stephen at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Students shared their work: poetry and singing. Happy Easter from all of us!
A huge thank you to everyone who sponsored John, Lala and Rachael for swimming 5k to raise money for our new Lavender Walk unit - together we raised £826.77!
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Baroness Mary Warnock. We remember her launching Well at School back in 2011. Read our Well at School blog post.
Sparks is our new Erasmus project on well being, with partner schools from Germany, Hungary, Ireland and Poland. Find out more: www.sparkswb.eu
A huge thank you to everyone who sponsored Martin for running the half marathon to raise money for our holiday programme - together we raised £645!
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Take a look at the new section on DLD on our Well at School website
We had an inspirational first meeting with teachers from Germany, Hungary, Ireland and Poland for our new Erasmus, Well Being project - Sparks.
Are you studying or working in adolescent mental health or have some experience working with young people with mental health difficulties? Would you like to carry out a placement or come and volunteer at our new unit?
Do you live locally to Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and have a couple of hours to spare? Would you like to help out on our charity stall we run every Tuesday from 11-1? If this sounds of interest to you please come and talk initially to Su or Ann on a Tuesday morning.
Caitlin’s winning design has been printed onto silk and is available from Lisou boutique, 302 Westbourne Grove, W11 2PS or online from the Lisou website. 100% of all profits will go directly to supporting our art department.
A huge thank you to our fabulous volunteers, Ann, Christine, Denise, Emma, Melissa and Sue, who raised £1200 at today's Cake Sale!
Great advice for teachers and SENCOs from Amy, our Reintegration Support Officer, on helping students settle back into school after a time away for medical treatment.
Our students went to visit the new Kensington & Chelsea foodbank, @KFoodbank, taking boxes of food and non-food items to donate. We learned so much about how foodbanks work, and we hope to take more items for their official launch.
Checkout the Managing Exam Stress section on our Well at School website here.
Please sponsor Martin, who will be running his first ever half marathon in March, to raise money for our hospital school!
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Many thanks to Listening Books who have donated a Bluetooth speaker and a tablet with access to their library of hundreds of teen and YA titles, fiction and non-fiction, for schoolwork or simple listening/reading for pleasure. We’re going to roll this out in the New Year and are very excited about it!
A huge thank-you to London Children's Book Project for their kind donation of books for our Lavender Walk unit. We’ve already had several pupils borrowing from our now-excellent lending library!
We are delighted to receive the Healthy Schools Bronze Award. Congratulations to Marie for all her hard work on this!
On the last weekend of March three of our team; Lala, Rachael and John will be swimming 15km to raise money for Lavender Walk, our new inpatient unit for adolescents with mental health challenges. We truly appreciate any help you can give, large or small: every penny counts! Click here to help!
A huge Thank you to 'Read Well’ Charity who donated a box of secondary age books. The teenagers have already been poring over them and it’s perfect timing for the Christmas holidays!
Lavender Walk is the newest member of Chelsea Community Hospital School. It is a dedicated unit for young people with mental health difficulties aged 13 to 18. It provides inpatient care for up to twelve young people and there is a day programme for an additional four young people more info
Bully Free is an exciting collaborative art project, which aims to promote awareness and open up discussion for young people about the seriousness of bullying.
We are delighted to welcome Copthorne Tara Hotel as our new corporate partner.
A huge thank you to Copthorne Tara Hotel for organising a cake sale and raising £143 for our school charity.
A huge thank you to Alex, Jana and Katerina from Hilton Kensington and Hilton Olympia for organising a cake sale and raising £333 for our school charity.
Nissa recieves our 'highly commended Best Charity of the year' award at the Kensington and Chelsea Business Awards 2018.
A huge thank-you to Jay who completed the 3 Peaks Challenge raising £1000 for our school.
We have written a new section on Supporting Siblings on our Well at School website.
Read the Well at School 'Back to School' Newsletter.
We have been selected as a finalist in the 'best social enterprise or charity' category of the 2018 Kensington & Chelsea Business Awards.
Janette, our school Principal will be judging the Parks Police Dog Show on Sunday 9th September in Westfield park SW10 from 10am. Do come along! All proceed will be donated to Chelsea Community Hospital School.
Children in the Blue class have chosen to raise money for Macmillan as well as UNICEF. Guess how many sweets are in the sweet jar!
We have written a new section for Well at School on supporting students with dyspraxia.
It's National Writing Day! Check our Writing Blog, Writers' Ink, which celebrates children's writing across our school.
We have written a new section on supporting students with dyslexia
Children at Southbank International School nominated CCHS as one of their chosen charities. As well as making resources for pupils to use across our sites, they are donating £700 of the proceeds from their Summer Fair! A big thanks to all involved.
We have written new sections on supporting students with psychosis and bipolar disorder on our Well at School website.
A huge thank-you to our wonderful charity volunteers for all their hard work baking and selling delicious cakes on our Charity Cake Stall at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.
OFSTED inspectors visited us for an inspection in May. Their report stated: 'This school continues to be outstanding'. Read the report here.
One of our students went on a trip organised by CCHS and the Brompton Fountain Charity to the Harry Potter Museum. He had an amazing time and thoroughly enjoyed his day!
Thank you to all the people who kindly donated money for the school at the Mayor's charity lunch.
Thanks to Oscar's Book Prize for sending us their five shortlisted books. Read about Oscar's Book Prize here www.oscarsbookprize.co.uk
Many thanks to Kensington & Chelsea Chamber of Commerce for their kind donation of funds raised at a charity auction and raffle.
Many thanks to RBKC Mayor Marie-Therese Rossi for inviting staff, volunteers and friends to a delightful evening at the Mayor's parlour. We have been the Mayor's charity of the year and a huge thank-you goes for all the support this has brought to the school.
Students and staff came together for an Easter celebration in the Chapel of St Stephen at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Students shared their work: poetry, writing and singing. Happy Easter from all of us!
A huge thank-you to the Chelsea Rotary Club for their donation of £300 to our school.
Chelsea Community Hospital School is expanding and developing. We are therefore looking for 3 Key Stage 3 & 4 teachers and 2 Key Stage 1 & 2 teachers. A chance to work in a challenging and unpredictable environment.
Every year there is a competition for London Schools to create artwork inspired by the commissions for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. This year our students have once again done us proud and produced some exciting designs and models. We wish them the best of luck in the competition and an enormous well done for all of their hard work!
Many thanks to students from Royal Russell School who raised money carol singing for our school. Singers Lucy and Lauren said: “The choir trip to the Whitgift Centre was a big success. Everybody sang really well and families were really supportive. My favourite song was Christmas lullaby. It was really fun! We were delighted to raise money for Chelsea Community Hospital School.”
Many thanks to the Royal Russell School in Croydon who raised £331 at their Christmas events for our school charity.
Jay, who used to work with us as a Leaning Mentor, will be taking part in the 3 Peaks Challenge to raise money for our school charity. Please support her! click here
A huge thank you to the amazing students at Southbank International School, who have chosen CCHS as one of their charities for the year.
A huge thank-you to The Mayor of Kensington and Chelsea, Councillor Marie-Therese Rossi, whose Christmas Carol Service raised over £7,500 for our school charity.
Reflections on 2017 and new developments in 2018 from Janette, our Principal.
A huge thank-you to Rotary in London, who held a carol service in which participants brought along gifts for children at our hospital school.
A huge thank you to our charity volunteers, Ann, Melissa and Su for organising this year's Xmas stall and raffle which raised £876. And a special mention to Kirstel for sourcing all the wonderful raffle prizes! Thanks also to Shaun for selling raffle tickets within the school and for our great helper who drew the winning tickets!
Dee Russell, Pearly Queen of Chelsea, dropped by our charity stall to check out the bargins!
Our fabulous volunteers, Anne, Crystal and Su, will be selling Xmas raffle tickets at their Brompton Hospital foyer stall every Thursday until the big draw on 14th Dec. There are some truly wonderful prizes so make sure you get your tickets!
The Mayor of Kensington and Chelsea, Councillor Marie-Therese Rossi invites you to her Christmas Carol Service on Tuesday 12th December, in aid of her Mayoral Charity, The Chelsea Community Hospital School.
A huge thank-you to Kensington and Chelsea Road Safety Team and to bikeworks for supplying us with six recycled bikes and for providing cycle training for our students.
Join us at the "Earl's Court Community Christmas Carol Service" on Saturday 9th December. Proceeds raised will go to our school charity.
We are looking for someone to work one day a week managing our payroll queries. Pay according to experience. Please contact Karen This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We are currently looking to recruit new members to our school governing body. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity please contact Karen This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. More details here.
Three of our staff team, Janette, Martin and Shaun, travelled to Moscow to present at “The 1st All Russian Conference with International Participation” at the new Uchimznaem hospital.
Three of our staff took part in The 1st All Russian Conference on Hospital Education. We will post a full report soon, but meanwhile here are some photographs from the organisers.
A huge thank you to Bassett House School who in partnership with the Kensington & Chelsea Foundation raised £4,599 to help support the work of our school.
We installed new interactive displays outside our Brompton Hospital school room and St Mary’s school room. They will be updated soon with drawings produced by our students - watch this space!
In the summer holidays Charlotte, one of our primary school teachers went to Uganda on a sponsored placement through BlueSky Education and charity CRANE and their partner VIVA. VIVA provides education for marginalised girls in Kampala, Uganda.
Our community students went on a residential trip - watch the video!
We said a sad farewell to Lloyd who has been working with us for four years as classroom assistant, youth worker and exams officer.
A huge thank you to Waitrose at Bressingdon Place, Victoria for raising £124 for our Hospital School.
We have reached one hundred pieces of children's writing on our writing blog, Writers' Ink - take a look!
From 15th to 16th June 2017 I had the chance to do a short job-shadowing at Chelsea Community Hospital School.
As a hospital school teacher in Vienna and programme manager of the 10th HOPE (Hospital School Organization of Pedagogues in Europe) Congress in Vienna in May 2016, I’ve dreamed of visiting my British colleagues and participating in their lessons and meetings. Thanks to the open-mindedness of both the teachers and the students I had the chance to enjoy the welcoming atmosphere at two of their hospital school sites.
Read all about my visit:
A huge thank you to our wonderful charity volunteers who raised £835 from their Charity Cake Sale at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.
All of us at Chelsea Community Hospital School would like to thank Olivia for her kind and generous donation. Olivia decided for her birthday this year that rather than receive presents she would prefer donations to be made to the Hospital School. We were all so impressed by such a selfless act and aim for the money to be used to produce a book of children's writing from across the school. Thank you again Olivia!
A huge thank you to every one of you who supported our first ‘SuperHero FunRun’. Firstly to all our generous sponsors – your donations will make a big difference to the lives of children in hospital. Thank you to our wonderful team of runners which included students, teachers, nurses, friends and family. A special mention goes to Haile who raised £242, Robin who raised £410, Nigel from Purple Mash who raised over £200 and all our students who together raised £880! We will post the total once we've added it all up. Have a look at the photos below, and if you wish you can still sponsor our students here.
We have updated the SEND section of our Well at School website with a new section on muscular dystrophy.
Parks Police Team will be raising money for the hospital school on 25th June at the Parks Police Service Dog Show. Janette, our principal, will be one of the judges. Come along and bring your dog!
Saint Augustine's Polyfonic Choir is organizing a Choral Festival, Sunday 21th May, 7.30pm in Our Lady of Victories Church in Kensington High Street. All profits will be donated to the Hospital School.
Support Mental Health Awarereness Week by making origami lotus flowers at the Brompton Hospital with Shaun, our artist in residence.
Thank you to everyone who helped us raise £70.70 for Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.
Thank you to The Future Mapping Company for kindly donating this huge world map which has brightened up the secondary classroom at Brompton Hospital.
Huge thank-yous to our volunteers Lola, Freddie, William and Victoria who raised nearly £100 on the stall at Chelsea & Westminster.
Join us on Sunday 14th May for the CCHS Superhero Fun Run!
Pull on your cape and join thousands of other superheroes at London’s Regent’s Park this May.
Whether you choose to walk, jog or run, Chelsea Community Hospital School really does need heroes, like yourself, to take part in the CCHS Superhero Run.
We have updated the SEND section of our Well at School website with new sections on spina bifida and hydrocephalus.
A huge thank you to Waitrose, Edgeware Road, for their continued, generous support which enables our school to remain open for children in hospital during the school holidays. Su Browne attended an afternoon for charities funded by Waitrose’s green tokens initiative.
A huge thank you to Tesco for their generous support which enables our school to remain open for children in hospital during the school holidays. Janette Steel was presented with a cheque for £1,500.
We decorated the classroom as a circus to celebrate World Book Day at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Our musician Brian playing guitar on the children's ward at Royal in a photo essay from the Guardian.
Staff at St Mary's celebrating World Book Day.
Staff enjoyed an after school session exploring virtual reality headsets!
On Thursday 26th January, two children from RBH had a very exciting trip to Hamleys in London. The children were amazed by all seven floors of toys and had great fun having a go at being Hamleys toy testers!
TOYS is a 4 week music and art project with musicians from Wigmore Hall Learning, sound artist Gawain Hewitt and our artist in residence Shaun. Take a look at our project blog to see and hear the students' work. toys.cchs.org.uk
Together with staff at Evelina Hospital School we have created a new section on our Well at School website giving information on supporting students with Kidney conditions.
EPiH-Net is an online resource for those working with children and young people in hospital. Sign-up to help share ideas and disseminate good practice. http://ypmnet.ning.com/
A huge THANK YOU to Scribbler who raised £3634 for our school from the sale of their carrier bags!
A massive thank you to Duke of York Square who raised over £5,000 for our school from donations at Santa’s 2016 Grotto.
A Happy New Year to you from all of us at CCHS. Here are some memories from 2016.
Thank you to Joskos for their donation of toys and gifts and also to Intropia and The Kensington & Chelsea Foundation for their donation of teddy bears.
Students and staff joined with parents and visitors to celebrate in the Christingle service at St Stephen's chapel, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
We are looking for volunteers to help in our school. If you have a few hours to spare on a Tuesday and/or Wednesday and would be confident working with secondary age students please contact Karen on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Thank you.
Inspired by TED Talks, our students have produced videos of their own special stories. Enjoy The Bigger Picture!
Chelsea Fine Stationary are donating 20% of the proceeds of their lovely Penguin Christmas Cards to our school charity FCCHS. Full details here: www.chelseafinestationery.com
Many thanks to Joskos for their generous donation of toys and gifts to our students this Christmas.
Congratulations to students at Brompton Hospital who raised £102 for Children in Need. They made gifts and sold them on a stall in the classroom.
A huge thank you to staff, students and parents from Francis Holland School who raised £5000 for our school at their Anonymous Art Auction.
Read the latest Well at School Newsletter here
Philip Wells, our Poet in Residence, has released a short film of his epic 1000 mile barefoot walk to raise awareness of the billion children around the world living below the poverty line. Take a look on YouTube here. And there's more info and resources on his website here www.barefootbillion.com
Take a look at two great new pieces of writing on our writing blog www.writersink.cchs.org.uk
After a visit by the Minister of Education from Chile our Principal Janette was invited to travel to Chile to present our model of hospital education. Here are her first impressions of arriving in Santiago.
The Friends of Chelsea Community Hospital School have published their September NEWSLETTER - Number 23
Hope is the last item that flies out of Pandora’s Box.
A rainbow is the symbol of hope and you cannot see a double rainbow without looking up and smiling.
This was the anniversary of the past - now we have hope for the future...
Students and staff enjoy an end of year celebration meal together at Hache, complete with giant nachos and truffle fries!
There were a lot of empty plates! We can’t believe we didn’t get a picture of the spread, including the famous “Mikey’s Cakes” Guinness cake. But there was a good turnout including nurses, doctors, wider MDT members, governors, and Marie’s current and former colleagues in CCHS. They all went back full of sweetness and memories of Marie, brought back by the lovely slide show.
Stacey and Charlotte enjoying the sunshine and watering their courgettes in our community garden.
Martin was presented with a 20 year Long Service Award by the Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Councillor Mrs Elizabeth Rutherford. “I’m delighted to join the esteemed CCHS 20year+ club! It just goes to show what an amazing place the Hospital School is to work” - Martin
We asked our secondary English teacher Rachael for her top suggestions for new books for the summer.
“We’re at that exciting time of year when summer is stretching ahead of you, six golden weeks……. But what will you do with yourself the whole time?! This is the perfect time to pick up a new summer read, and here’s a list of writers currently causing excitement amongst young adult readers. Some by prize winning authors, some by old favourites – even one by famous beauty vlogger Zoe Sugg! Yes, reading is great for your brain, but it’s also just a great way to escape the four walls of your room for a bit. Try something new, and if you come across any amazing reads this summer, we’d love to hear about them when you come back to school.”
A huge thank-you to our wonderful charity volunteers for all their hard work baking and selling delicious cakes on our Charity Cake Stall at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. They have raised over £1290 for the Hospital School! Be sure to drop by for some delicious baking - or next time bake a cake for them to sell :)
Many thanks to our students Heidi and Marianna for helping on our stall at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Open Day.
Students have started an exciting 4 week project inspired by the paintings and poems of William Blake. Working with musicians from Wigmore Hall Learning's resident ensemble Ignite, our artist in residence Shaun and actor Charlie Folorunsho. They will be creating music, poetry and artworks. Keep an eye on their work on the special Blake's Mosaics blog.
Congratulations to students from Chelsea & Westminster and Collingham Gardens for winning the Cass Art prize at the Leighton House schools art competition for a collaborative art piece.
Our wonderful charity volunteers will be holding a Charity Cake Sale on Tuesday 28th June at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. Be sure to drop by for some delicious baking! Or even bake a cake for them to sell :)
Staff from our school attended the 10th International HOPE Congress in Vienna. We presented workshops, promoted our Well at School website and networked to find new Erasmus partners.
Students celebrated our principal Janette's birthday with a surprise cake and flowers. Happy Birthday Janette!
Writers’ Ink is a new blog created by Chelsea Community Hospital School to celebrate children’s writing across our school.
Exciting writing is so much more than being able to identify a subordinate clause. Exciting writing is, in the words of poet and author Michael Rosen, ‘pleasure, stimulation, feeling, curiosity, wonder and fun and children finding their own voice.’ It is a love for language and the wonderful ways it can be used and manipulated to engage, entertain, inform and create. Take a read of the children's wonderful writing!
Our school has been given a community garden space next to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Students have made a great start preparing for planting. Read Stacey’s reflection on their afternoon of gardening on our new Writers' Ink writing blog.
We were thrilled to celebrate Easter as a school today as we held our Easter service with students and visitors present in the chapel at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
We are all getting ready for World Book Day and will be posting our activities here - keep a look out!
Big congratulations to our maths teacher Paul who is also the guitarist in the band 'Danny and the Champions of the World'. At the recent UK Americana Awards Paul received the UK Song of the Year Award for co-writing 'Clear Water' and his band won UK Album of The Year and UK Artist of the Year! You can check them out here www.dannyandthechamps.com
Students and staff attended the opening of our CONSTELLATIONS exhibition, showing their artwork and music in the Chapel at Brompton Cemetery.
Works by students from CHELSEA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL SCHOOL in collaboration with BROMPTON CEMETERY & WIGMORE HALL LEARNING.
GRAND OPENING Fri 15th Jan 11—12pm OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Sat 16th Jan 12—3pm
The Chapel Brompton Cemetery London SW10 9UG
A huge thank you to all our volunteers who have been tirelessly running the Xmas stall at Brompton Hospital each week raising over £1000 for our school. See The Annual Drawing of the Raffle!
We celebrated Christmas in St Stephen's Chapel at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, with children from the wards, the community and Collingham. We were joined by the Mayor and school governors for a joyful Christingle celebration.
We had a lovely evening celebrating our students' GCSE achievements - congratulations to you all!
We are delighted to announce the arrival of our brand new, fully wheelchair accessible, minibus. As it’s a bit smaller it can be driven by all our MIDAS trained staff - which means many more exciting trips for all students! A million thanks to everyone who helped us fundraise.
Our fabulous volunteers Ann, Fan, Melissa and Victoria worked so hard baking delicious cakes and then selling them on the cake stall. They raised nearly £800 for our school - many thanks ladies!
Thanks to Jack and Kaylem for paying a visit to the secondary classroom this half term to feed the fish for everyone! They loved watching and pointing at the fish as they glided through the water and munched on their favourite fish food!
Teachers at St Mary's celebrate World Smile Day, followed by a conga around the wards!
Our Autumn Well at School newsletter has 5 top tips, advice for supporting students with sickle cell disease and help returning to school after a period of absence - take a read here: http://eepurl.com/byMj7f
Gemma was a student who came to the Hospital School 17 years ago when she was going through a very tough time. Last week she got in touch with us to tell us about the positive changes in her life and what her time at the Hospital School meant to her. Have a read...
Congratulations to Shaun, our artist in residence, on completing his MA Drawing studies. His work is on display in the MA group show at Wimbledon College of Arts, and is definitely worth a visit, details here. Also see Shauns's work on his website www.shaundolan.co.uk
Students from the community and Chelsea & Westminster were lucky enough to attend the dress rehearsal of Holland Park Opera’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. The characters were outlandish, the singing fantastic, and the sun even made an appearance!
Students and staff visited Lee Valley VeloPark’s indoor velodrome where they rode the track and ate ice cream!
Congratulations to our students Grace, Jennifer, Kate and Zoe who all had their artworks selected for this year's Schools Art Competition and Exhibition at Leighton House.
Musical Time Machines is an exciting new musical project taking place in our schools at St Mary's and the Brompton. Throughout June, students will be working with musicians from Wigmore Hall Learning and sound artist Gawain Hewitt, to make music for their 'time machines'. You can follow their progress on the prioject blog here: https://musicaltimemachines.wordpress.com/
We are pleased to announce that Eddie Caveney, our intrepid volunteer, collected his well earned reward for more than 100 hours of volunteering in Kensington & Chelsea at the Value You Awards Ceremony on Friday 5th June.
Three of our staff, Martin, Sarah and Shaun, joined with teachers from our partner schools in Iceland, Ireland, Italy and Poland for the final conference of our two year Comeius project - Big Green Footsteps, in Iceland.
Read about all our activities, along with photographs from our week together, here: http://biggreenfootsteps.ning.com/iceland-2015-final-conference
Read NEC's blog post about the work of teaching children in hospital, both here at Chelsea Community Hospital School and also at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
Our students had a fantastic time at Herne Hill Velodrome learning to ride the 450m cycle track on fixed wheel track bicycles.
Two of our pupils Grace and Frank received special awards at the TRIP Pupil Celebration at Tate Modern.
Over the past month our students have been working with Cathy, Dan, Jackie, James, Lucy and Vicky; musicians from Wigmore Hall Learning, to create some wonderful music - see the photos and take a listen!
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