Work & Events Blog

Key stage four perform A London Romance - The Production was a culmination of a whole years work in which every student played a big part including writing the script, set design, choreography and lighting….see and read more

Two students attend the Archway Project in Thamesmead. They are learning mechanical and riding skills by qualified staff as well as photography and cooking…….read and see more

Post 16 creative arts students have made a music video to the beat bullying song written and recorded by Charlton students. Take a look at their great work

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On Thursday 5th March Kathryn Blair (former Prime Minister’s daughter) presented the school with a special award and MOVE students with individual certificates. The School award was for our event held at the O2 Dome on 7th November 2008 when students passed on an Olympic torch to the cheers of their peers and the public using their mobility equipment and practising their skills from the MOVE programme. The MOVE Young Person Ambassador Kathryn Blair presented the school with a prize of £500 to spend on MOVE equipment. The whole school was present to share in celebrating the fantastic achievements of our students with physical difficulties in the MOVE programme. Well Done.

Charlton School appears on the BBC News - Monday 23rd February

Celebrating the work of Keith Parks and his book - Popular bible stories which have been re-written  - in cockney rhyming slang. See the work of Keith and students in call and response sessions.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7906852.stm

Last term, I wrote a story using my Tellus* called The Big Fight. It was about my friend Georgina and I fighting over the pop star Shayne Ward. I entered my story in a competition and was invited to a reception at 10 Downing Street! I went with my mum and Katie from school on a minibus. The reception was to raise awareness for people who use communication aids. Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his wife were there. I spoke to them using my Tellus. It was lovely inside and I wish I could live there. We heard other people telling stories using their communication aids. It was a really good evening out.

* A Tellus is an aid, which allows Ashleigh to communicate with others.

On 27th November the choir took part in the Young Voices Concert at the O2. All term the students have worked hard in learning the set songs for this performance and on the day sang along with 7000 other school children to a mass audience. There was a live band on stage and we performed alongside Des’ree as part of the Big Sing, a world record attempt for the most number of children simultaneously singing around the country. It was a fantastic event and a great opportunity for our students to sing alongside other schools and perform with various professional musicians and dancers. Well done to everyone who took part, students and staff, to make this such a memorable event!

On November 7th 2008, our school celebrated International MOVE day by doing an Olympic torch relay around the O2. We took the students’ physio equipment with us and they passed the torch between them in their walkers, bikes and mobile standing frames. A lot of classes came to offer their support and all the cheering and clapping was really loud! We were joined by representatives from Willow Dene and Millenium schools who enjoyed the day as much as we did. Well done to those who took part and a big thank you to those who came to cheer us on!

During the half term break a film production crew came into school to interview two ex students Georgina and Emma for a website about disability access. They were asked about their experiences and thoughts. Their confidence was impressive and they added a very valuable contribution to the project. This is a site that many families may find helpful as it provides lots of information about accessible places, services transport, attractions and more. Visit at www.directenquiries.com

Colin is really enjoying the work he is doing down at Acres Way Kennels. Colin has a special talent when working with these dogs. He shows lots of care towards the dogs  and works hard while he is there. Some of Colin’s duties are: walking, feeding and mucking out the kennels. He stays focused on his duties whilst at Acres Way and has made new friends as well. Colin has said that he would like to work with animals when he leaves school.

THE world-famous New Zealand ‘All Blacks’ came to open the Adizone in Charlton Park and we had a group of students who attended as well as some very excited staff!! The Adizone is an outdoor gym and fitness ground which has been opened by the Greenwich Council to promote health and fitness in the community. The All Blacks - Richie McCaw, Ali Williams, Ross Filipo, Rodney So’oialo, Joe Rokocoko and Sitiveni Sivivatu arrived just as the rain cleared and took some photos with Mayor Steve Offord and a group of Charlton students. Our students took part in rugby skills training and used the outdoor gym equipment, they were a credit to the school and asked questions and mixed openly with the athletes.

The Call and Response drama group were invited to Spencer House by the charity KIDS to perform Romeo and Juliet. Look at pictures taken and listen into PJ’s recording of their performance.

Charlton School students and staff support the charity Afasic in an attempt to set the new world record for ‘the most people simultaneously performing sign language to a song at different venues’ listen in to ‘Sunshine in my Heart’

On Wednesday the 17th of September, Charlton School held a sporting event to coincide with the Paralympic flag handover. The event included Gymnastic displays by four of our talented students. The demonstrations from Ruky, James, Stephen and Sinead included floor routines, parallel bars, Beam and trampolining. A large number of our students were invited to join in and learn about the different gymnastic apparatus and participated in taster sessions. The morning was a huge success and the deputy mayor attended and presented medals to all of our students for participation and celebrating in the event. Well done and a big Thank you to all students and staff involved.
Deborah Reid
Head of P.E.

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On Wednesday 17th September a group of students went to the 02 to do some art work as part of the Paralympic Handover celebrations……….

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Our allotment at Abbey Wood has started producing its first fruit and vegetables.  Students from 6^th 1 and 2 have already started picking strawberries and around 20 red onions…………..

The school choir sang for the lunchtime presentations during the Greenwich Sportathon at Woolwich Barracks, last Monday 16^th June.  On a big stage with microphones and in front of children from ten local primary schools, the choir sang with great eagerness and energy and did the school proud. Well done to all the choir for their commitment and enthusiasm to singing!

Stage Right, an all inclusive performing arts project has just started as an after school club at Charlton School.  Run by Greenwich Academy of Music and Drama and with the help of staff from school, students’ access music, drama and dance through various activities.  This term students have been developing their drama skills and have been learning lots of news songs.  Watch this space for details of our first performance later in the year.

Watch a fantastic animation created by Richard. Funding by Media Box and with help from his family. A real outstanding talent!

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Post 16 students took part in an art project with art students from an organisation called Create to Learn who came into school to work with them. They worked on a project called My Alter Ego where students had to think about themselves as their heroes or imaginary people they would like to be…………

http://www.createtolearn.org.uk/index.php?page=view-project&request=72

The Bard and Building schools for the future  at the House of Commons 15^th May 2008

Charlton students perform at the house of commons  to a an audience of MPs and Partnership for schools.

The Call and response drama group  performed an extracts of Romeo and Juliet using 4 languages, extracts of Shakespeare’s text , key signs from BSL and words and phrases Arabic and Hebrew.

We will be performing Twelfth Night at the next  Shakespeare Schools Festival in October 2008 , PJ  as youth director .

Students from Royal Hill take part in Rowing regatta last sunday. This was along side other schools, athletes who have qualified for the olympics and paralympics. A great achievement - well done

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On April 1st 2008 the drama group received rapturous applause for their production of Grease. It was a fantastic day, with the sound of Summer Nights, Grease Lightning and much more being heard throughout the school. Well done to everyone involved…………..

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An exciting opportunity has been provided for a group of students at Charlton School and St Ursula’s Girls School to take part in a Film Production Course ran by Spectrecom Film Company……………..

 Post 16 students enjoyed a very interesting presentation by Toby Hewson last week. Toby came in to talk to students about his life and setting up and running his own company called JustDifferent at just 26 years old. He gave some very good advice to students on making the most of their time in school and to staff he requested that we are ambitious for our students and not just for what may be achievable but what may seem impossible. Toby was also filmed by the film production students and interviewed by Georgina.