Calendar of Events
2024 – 2025
While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided in this calendar, please note that some dates are subject to change.
September 2024
Thursday 29 (Aug) Staff Compliance Training
Friday 30 (Aug) Staff Compliance Training
Senior Team Strategy Day
New Staff Induction
Monday 2 Inset
New Joiners’ BBQ, 1 – 3.30pm
Tuesday 3 Inset
Wednesday 4 Inset
Start of Term for Reception
Thursday 5
Start of Autumn Term
Team Building & Induction Day
GL Testing Day for new Senior students
Y11 Students and Parents’ Information Evening, Main Hall, 4pm -5pm
Friday 6 House Activity Day
Sixth Form Dorset trip departs
Sunday 8 Sixth Form Dorset trip returns
Monday 9 Baseline tests week for new Prep students
Y8 Parents’ Information Evening, 6pm – 7pm in Main Hall
Y11 Geography field trip to Dorset departs
Tuesday 10 EY & Prep Photo Day
Y11 Geography field trip to Dorset
Y1 Parents’ Information Evening, 5pm – 6pm in classroom
Y13 Parents’ Information Evening, 6pm – 7pm
Wednesday 11 Y11 Geography field trip to Dorset returns
Y2 & Y5 Parents’ Information Evening, 5pm - 6pm
Thursday 12 Senior & Sixth Form Photo Day
Y3 Parents’ Information Evening, 5pm – 6pm
Y7 Parents’ Information Evening, 6pm – 7pm
Friends of HCH Volunteers Thank You Drinks, 7pm – 8pm
Friday 13 Friends Steering Group, 8.45am
Monday 16 Y4 Parents’ Information Evening, 5pm – 6pm
Y10 Parents’ Information Evening, 6pm – 7pm
Y11 Art trip to National Portrait Gallery
Tuesday 17 Y6 Parents’ Information Evening, 5pm – 6pm
Y12 Parents’ Information Evening 6pm – 7pm
Wednesday 18 Y5 residential trip to PGL Marchants Hill departs “To build relationships and encourage teamwork”
Y12 Drama Trip to Hammersmith
EY Parents’ Information Evening, 5pm - 6pm
Y9 Parents’ Information Evening, 6pm - 7pm
Thursday 19 Y5 residential trip to PGL Marchants Hill “To build relationships and encourage teamwork”
Meet the Friends Evening, 7pm - 9pm
Y10 Art and Photography GCSE trip to Kew Gardens
Friday 20 Y5 residential trip to PGL Marchants Hill returns
Monday 23 EY Cultural Celebration Week
Y1 & Y2 trip to Buckingham Palace and St Paul’s Cathedral
Y6 Junior Citizen –Heatham House Youth Centre
Tuesday 24 EY Cultural Celebration Week
Wednesday 25 EY Cultural Celebration Week
Y9 – Y11 Bold Voices Talk and Workshops
Thursday 26 EY Cultural Celebration Week
Read Write Inc Parent Workshop – Reception
Friday 27
Teacher Appreciation Breakfast
Camp HCH (Senior) Festival
EY Cultural Celebration Week
Monday 30 Reception Baseline Assessments
October 2024
Tuesday 1 Black History Month
Senior Maths Challenge
Reception Baseline Assessments
Wednesday 2 Sixth Form History, Politics and Economics trip to the Houses of Parliament and the British Museum
Reception Baseline Assessments
Parent Reps Evening 7pm - 8pm
Thursday 3 Reception Baseline Assessments
Friday 4 U11 (Y5 & Y6) ISA London South 5-a-side Football Tournament
Sunday 6 Y7 Isle of Wight trip departs
Monday 7 Y7 Isle of Wight trip
Tuesday 8 Y7 Isle of Wight trip
Wednesday 9 Y7 Isle of Wight trip returns
Y13 Exam Information Evening
Thursday 10 World Mental Health Day
Friday 11 Friends of HCH Book and Clothes Sale
Hello Yellow Day
Masai Cultural Arts group workshops
Monday 14
Tuesday 15 Oxbridge Medicine and Veterinary Application Deadline
Wednesday 16 Rome Classics trip departs
Thursday 17 Rome Classics trip
EY Bushy Park trip
Sixth Form Open Evening
Friday 18 Rome Classics trip
Celebration Assembly
Spooky Festival (Prep)
Spooktacular (Senior)
Reports go out
Saturday 19 Rome Classics trip returns
Monday 21 Half-term break begins
Oxbridge University Entrance Exams (21st – 31st October)
November 2024
Sunday 3 Half-term
Whole School Firework Display and BBQ!
Monday 4 Term restarts
Tuesday 5 EY Rehearsal in Main Hall for concert
Wednesday 6 EY Rehearsal in Main Hall for concert
Thursday 7 Y11 Parents’ Evening
Y6 Film Workshop in Main Hall
Breakfast Concert in Main Hall
Friday 8 Friends Steering Group, 8.45am
Y9 residential trip to Avon Tyrell Dorset departs
Sixth Form Application Deadline
The Art Faculty Show 2024, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Saturday 9 The Art Faculty Show 2024, 11am – 6pm
Sunday 10 Y9 residential trip to Avon Tyrrell Dorset returns
Monday 11 Y11 English trip to the Old Vic Theatre: “A Christmas Carol”
Anti-Bullying Week
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Remembrance Ceremony
Tuesday 12 Anti-Bullying Week
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Wednesday 13 Anti-Bullying Week
Global Entrepreneurship Week
The Gunpowder Plot Workshop
EY Rehearsal in Main Hall for concert
Thursday 14 Y7 Parents’ Evening
DELF Certificate Ceremony
Anti-Bullying Week
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Deadline for 2025 Applications
Year 9 History trip to New Victoria Theatre
Friday 15 Anti-Bullying Week
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Y7 – Y9 Flight Paths Parent Information Online Meeting
EY Rehearsal in Main Hall for concert
Monday 18 Y10 English trip to the Old Vic Theatre: “A Christmas Carol”
Tuesday 19 Number Fun Workshop with Maths CPD in the Theatre (all day)
FLAM trip to Apollo Eventim, Hammersmith to watch Francis Cabrel
Wednesday 20 Senior Kangaroo/Olympiad
EY Rehearsal in Main Hall for concert
Thursday 21 Senior Assessment Week including Y11 & Y13 Mocks
EY Dress Rehearsal in Main Hall for concert
Reception Coffee Morning
Friday 22 Senior Assessment Week including Y11 & Y13 Mocks
Y10 French trip to French Institute in London
Prep French Workshop
EY Rehearsal in Main Hall for concert
Sunday 24 Senior Assessment Week including Y11 & Y13 Mocks
Friends of HCH Winter Fayre, 12 - 4pm
Monday 25 Senior Assessment Week including Y11 & Y13 Mocks
EY Rehearsal in Main Hall for concert
Tuesday 26 Senior Assessment Week including Y11 & Y13 Mocks
Wednesday 27 Senior Assessment Week including Y11 & Y13 Mocks
EY Dress Rehearsal in Main Hall for concert
Thursday 28 Senior Assessment Week including Y11 & Y13 Mocks
EY Christmas Show, 10.30am
Friday 29 Senior Assessment Week including Y11 & Y13 Mocks
December 2024
Monday 2
Senior Assessment Week including Y11 & Y13 Mocks
Y9 Options Evening, 6pm - 8pm
EY Parent Teacher Meetings
Nasal flu vaccinations
Tuesday 3
Senior Assessment Week including Y11 & Y13 Mocks
EY Parent Teacher Meetings
Wednesday 4 Senior Assessment Week including Y11 & Y13 Mocks
EY Santa’s Grotto
Prep Show rehearsals all day (Y1 - Y6 on rotation, dress rehearsal in afternoon)
EY Parent Teacher Meetings
Mental Health Champions Senior Training
Thursday 5 Yule Ball Y10 – Y13, 6.30pm - 10pm
Prep Performance of The Nutcracker, 11am & 2.45pm
EY Parent Teacher Meetings
A Level Maths trip: Maths in Action, 9am - 5pm
Friday 6 EY Parent Teacher Meetings
Saturday 7
Sunday 8
Arctic trip Training at Elfwoods Campsite, starts at 9.30am
Arctic trip Training at Elfwoods Campsite, ends at 2.30pm
Monday 9 Senior Ice Skating
Prep Impromptu Concert in the Theatre, 1.25pm
Sixth Form Social: Afternoon Pizza and Bowling including Year 11 Joiners
Tuesday 10 EY & Prep Pantomime trip to New Wimbledon Theatre
Senior Christmas Impromptu Concert in the Theatre
Wednesday 11 Carols at St Mary's Church, Hampton
Data and Subject Reports Deadline
Rehearsal in Main Hall for Musical Theatre (Shrek)
Christmas Lunch and Festive Dress
Shrek Musical Theatre Performance in Main Hall 5.30pm
Thursday 12 Celebration Assembly
End of Term, 12.05pm finish
HCH Staff Christmas Party
January 2025
Friday 3 Inset
Monday 6 Inset (Dukes Conference)
Tuesday 7 Start of Spring Term
Autumn Reports go out to parents
Wednesday 8 11+ & 13+ for New Starters
Tutor Reports Due
A Level Photography Task Pre-release
Thursday 9 11+ & 13+ Entrance Assessments
Friday 10 A Level Photography Task Pre-release
Monday 13
Tuesday 14 FLAM trip to the Monet Exhibition
Wednesday 15 Entrance Assessments (Everyone else)
A Level Art exam
Thursday 16 Y6 Senior School Transition for Parents, 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Y3 – Y5 Stone Age Experience (all day)
Y7 & Y8 Holocaust Session in the Theatre, 10am –11 30am
A Level Art exam
Friday 17 Wassail Celebration (Prep)
A Level Art exam
Monday 20 Y9 DT trip to the Design Museum
Tuesday 21 Dukes Festival of Arts: Massed Rehearsal (Y5 - Y7)
Wednesday 22
Thursday 23 National Handwriting Day
Y10 Parents’ Evening
Session 1 of Putting Young Minds to Work (Y6), 2.30pm - 4pm
Friday 24 RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch
Saturday 25
Monday 27 Holocaust Memorial Day
Reception trip to Brooklands Museum
Tuesday 28 Y5 Anglo Saxon Day
Senior Chinese New Year Assembly, 8.40am - 9.05am
Wednesday 29 Lunar New Year
Intermediate Maths Challenge
Y7, Y8 & Y12 Drama Trip to New Wimbledon Theatre
Prep Chinese New Year Assembly, 8.40am - 9.05am
Thursday 30 Y12 & Y8 Parents’ Evening
Session 2 of Putting Young Minds to Work (Y6), 2.30pm - 4pm
Friday 31 Y5 & Y6 ISA London South Netball Tournament
February 2025
Monday 3 Storytelling Week
Children's Mental Health Week
Y11 Geography Trip to London Docklands & Shoreditch
Tuesday 4 Dukes Festival of Arts (Y5 - Y7)
Wednesday 5
Thursday 6 Y13 & Y9 Parents’ Evening
Session 3 of Putting Young Minds to Work (Y6), 2.30pm - 4pm
Friday 7 Friends of HCH Après Ski and Booksale, 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Time to Talk Mental Health Odd Socks Day
Ancient China in Virtual Reality Workshop in the Theatre (Y1 –Y6)
EY Storytelling Workshops with author Andy Copps in the Little Courtyard
Saturday 8
Monday 10
Tuesday 11 Internet Safety Day
Parent Internet Safety Workshop (Online), 5 30pm – 6 30pm
Y11 Parents’ Evening (Online)
Wednesday 12 GCSE and A level Music Performances (Main Hall. Rehearsals during the afternoon; performances at 4.30pm)
Thursday 13 Y10 – Y13 History trip to Berlin departs
Y12 InvestIN Day trip
Friday 14 End of Half Term Celebration Assembly
Y10 – Y13 History trip to Berlin
Sunday 16 Y10 – Y13 History trip to Berlin returns
Monday 17 Half-term break begins
Monday 24 Inset
Tuesday 25 Term restarts
Wednesday 26 Year 7 Offer Holders Afternoon, 2.30pm
Thursday 27 Class Reps Evening, 7pm - 8pm
Session 4 of Putting Young Minds to Work (Y6), 2.30pm - 4pm
Friday 28 EY Book Fair in the Little Courtyard, 2.45pm - 4pm
March 2025
Monday 3 Y9 ATP MenACWY Vaccination, Theatre, 8am – 12pm
Tuesday 4 Y10 Photography exam - group Photo B
Wednesday 5 Y10 Photography exam - group Photo B
Y12 - Y13 Biology in Action Trip
Thursday 6 World Book Day (Dress Up)
Session 5 of Putting Young Minds to Work (Y6), 2.30pm - 4pm
Y7 Parents’ Evening
Friday 7
French external exam DELF A2, 1.45pm - 3.40pm
GCSE Options Deadline for Y9
Saturday 8 International Women’s Day
Monday 10 Y11 & Y13 Mocks
Science Week
Y10 Art mock exam (all day)
Tuesday 11 Y11 & Y13 Mocks
Y9 'Macbeth' trip to Shakespeare's Globe
WonderDome Planetarium (all day)
French external exam DELF B1, 1.45pm - 3.55pm
Science Week
Y10 Art mock exam (all day)
Wednesday 12 Y11 & Y13 Mocks
Y10 Photography exam - group Photo D
Science Week
Thursday 13 Y11 & Y13 Mocks
Y10 Photography exam - group Photo D
Session 6 of Putting Young Minds to Work (Y6), 2.30pm - 4pm
Bronze DofE Expedition Training in school, 2pm – 4pm
Silver DofE Expedition Training in school, 2pm – 4pm
Science Week
Friday 14
Y11 & Y13 Mocks
ISA U13 Netball Tournament
Science Week
Pi Day
Sunday 16
Monday 17 Senior Assessment Week
Y11 & Y13 Mocks
Richmond Festival (Duke Street Church)
Neurodiversity Week
Tuesday 18 Senior Assessment Week
Y11 & Y13 Mocks
Y1 – Y4 French Drama Show Rehearsal in the Theatre, 9am – 10 20 am
Neurodiversity Week
ISA U13 Football Tournament
Wednesday 19 Senior Assessment Week
Y11 & Y13 Mocks
Y1 – Y4 French Drama Show Rehearsal in the Theatre, 9am – 10 20am
Y1 – Y4 “The Little Prince” French Drama Show Performance in the Theatre, 2.45pm3.45pm
Francophone Day
Neurodiversity Week
Thursday 20 Senior Assessment Week
Intermediate Kangaroo/Olympiad
Bronze DofE Expedition Training in school, 2pm – 4pm
Silver DofE Expedition Training in school, 2pm – 4pm
Neurodiversity Week
Session 7 of Putting Young Minds to Work (Y6), 2.30pm - 4pm
DELF B1 Speaking exam, 1.25pm - 3.40pm
Friday 21 Senior Assessment Week
Y12 - Y13 Art & Photography trip to National Portrait Gallery, 2pm - 4pm
Neurodiversity Week
Saturday 22 Thailand Survival Skills Weekend Training departs
Sunday 23 Thailand Survival Skills Weekend Training returns
Monday 24 World Maths Day
Session 8 of Putting Young Minds to Work (Y6), 10.30am - 12pm EY Parent Teacher Meetings
Tuesday 25
Wednesday 26 Spring Recitals (rehearsals all day; Junior Recital 4.30pm – 5.30pm; Senior Recital 6pm –7pm)
Thursday 27 EY Bushy Park trip
Y11 Drama exam rehearsals, Exam at 5pm in the Main Hall
Bebras Challenge
Friday 28 EY Mothers’ Day Celebration
Putting Young Minds to Work (Y6) Enterprise Fair, 2pm – 3.30pm in the Theatre
Y9 - Y12 Arctic Winter Skills in Finland departs
Saturday 29
Monday 31 Data Deadline
April 2025
Tuesday 1 Friends of HCH Easter Egg Hunt, 10am - 12pm
Year 11 French - French Institute Visit (all day)
Wednesday 2 Celebration Assembly
End of Term, 12pm finish
HCH Staff Spring Social
Thursday 3 Y9 - Y12 Arctic Winter Skills in Finland returns
Friday 4 Madrid Football trip departs
Tuesday 8 Madrid Football trip returns
Thursday 10 Easter Break
Sunday 13 Easter Break
Monday 21 Bank Holiday
Tuesday 22 Staff Inset
Earth Day
Wednesday 23 Start of Summer Term
St George’s Day
Tutor Report Deadline
Y10 Drama exam rehearsal (all day)
Thursday 24 Y10 Art trip to Hampton Court Palace
Y10 Drama exam rehearsal (all day)
Friday 25 Spring Reports go out to parents (Y12 go out in May)
Y10 Drama exam Rehearsals
Silver DofE Practice Expedition at New Forest departs
Music GCSE/A level Performance, composing recording and preparation, 2pm - 4pm
Sunday 27 Silver DofE Practice Expedition at New Forest returns
Monday 28 Y12 end of year exams
Drama GCSE rehearsals in the Main Hall (all day)
Y6 PGL Residential Parents’ talk, 4.15pm
Tuesday 29 Y12 end of year exams
Y10 Drama exam
GCSE Photography exam
Wednesday 30 Y12 end of year exams
Y3 – Y6 The Romans Workshop, 9am - 10am
GCSE Photography exam
A Level Photography & Graphic design exam
May 2025
Thursday 1 Y12 end of year exams
A Level Photography & Graphic design exam
May Day Celebrations (Prep)
Junior Maths Challenge
Y1 & Y2 Parents’ Evening in the Little Courtyard, 4.30pm - 7.30pm
Friday 2 Y12 end of year exams
A Level Photography & Graphic design exam
Music GCSE/A level Performance, composing recording and preparation, 9am – 1pm
Year 12 Cambridge colleges trip
Monday 5 Early May Bank Holiday
Tuesday 6
GCSE Art exam
A level Drama exam rehearsal (periods 1 to 4)
Y6 Bikeability
Y3 & Y4 Parents’ Evening in the Theatre, 4.30pm - 7.30pm
Wednesday 7 Y6 Bikeability
A Level Drama exam, 4.30pm - 5pm
GCSE Art exam
Thursday 8 Y5 Parents’ Evening in the Theatre, 4.30pm - 7.30pm
Y6 Bikeability
Y5 & Y6 Performing Arts Week starts
Y10 Photography trip to London gallery (all day)
Friday 9 Y12 Data and Report Deadline
Y6 Bikeability
Y5 & Y6 Performing Arts Week
Monday 12 Public Examinations Begin
Y11 & Y13 study leave commences
Y5 & Y6 Performing Arts Week
Mental Health Awareness Week
Tuesday 13 Y12 Reports go out
Y5 & Y6 Performing Arts Week
Wednesday 14 Y5 & Y6 Production, 4.30 & 7pm
Y5 & Y6 Performing Arts Week
Thursday 15 Y5 & Y6 Production, 4.30 & 7pm
Y5 & Y6 Performing Arts Week
Friday 16 Prep Heads Afternoon Tea
Y12 Leadership Coaching Programme, 10am - 4pm
Monday 19 Francophone Week
Y1 – Y4 Rehearsal in Main Hall for Immersion Show
A Level Art exam
Y12 Individual Leadership Coaching Sessions
Tuesday 20 A Level Art exam
Francophone Week
EY World Bee Day
Y12 Individual Leadership Coaching Sessions
Y1 – Y4 Rehearsal in Theatre for Immersion Show, 9am – 10.15pm
Y1 – Y4 Performance in Theatre for Immersion Show, 3pm - 4pm
Wednesday 21 A Level Art exam
Francophone Week
Bronze DofE Expedition at Surrey Hills departs
Y12 Individual Leadership Coaching Sessions
Thursday 22 Francophone Week
Year 8 HPV Vaccinations, Theatre
Y12 Individual Leadership Coaching Sessions
Friends Francophone Soirée and Quiz, 7pm
Friday 23 Francophone Week
Celebration Assembly
Y12 Individual Leadership Coaching Sessions
Bronze DofE Expedition at Surrey Hills returns
Monday 26 Half-term break begins
June 2025
Monday 2 Term restarts
Tuesday 3
Wednesday 4 EY & Prep Induction Day
FLAM Paris trip departs
Thursday 5 FLAM Paris trip returns
Y6 Parents’ Evening in the Theatre, 4.30pm - 7.30pm
Friday 6
Monday 9 Whole school exam week
Tuesday 10 Whole school exam week
Junior Kangaroo/Olympiad
Wednesday 11 Whole school exam week
Prep Dress Rehearsal
Thursday 12 Whole school exam week
Prep Performance
Friday 13 EY Father’s Day Celebration
HCH Careers Fair, 10am - 2pm
Prep day trip to Chessington
EY trip to Bushy Park
Monday 16 Senior Performing Arts Week
Shakespeare Festival Year 7 - 10
Tuesday 17 Sixth Form Open Evening
Senior Performing Arts Week (Y7 & Y8, some Y9 & Y10)
Shakespeare Festival Year 7 - 10
Wednesday 18 Senior Performing Arts Week and then Production (evening, time tbc)
Shakespeare Festival Year 7 - 10
Thursday 19 French external exam DELF B1, 1.45pm - 3.55pm
Drummers Concert (Little Globe)
Friday 20 Y7 & Y8 Netball Tour 2025 departs
11+ Y7 Induction Day (Current Y6)
Sunday 22 Y7 & Y8 Netball Tour 2025 returns
Monday 23 Y12 Individual Leadership Coaching Sessions
Tuesday 24 EY / Prep Sports Day
Y12 Individual Leadership Coaching Sessions
Wednesday 25 Y11 Prom
13+ Y9 Induction Day (Current Y8) 10am – 3.30pm
Y12 Individual Leadership Coaching Sessions
Y6 PGL residential at Marchants Hill departs
Thursday 26 Senior Sports Day
Thailand trip departs
Friday 27 Y6 PGL residential at Marchants Hill returns
Y12 Individual Leadership Coaching Sessions Week
Saturday 28 Silver DofE Expedition at South Downs departs
Sunday 29 Summer Fête
Monday 30 Data and Subject Reports Deadline
Silver DofE Expedition at South Downs returns
July 2025
Tuesday 1
Wednesday 2 Tutor Reports Due Y13 Prom [provisional]
Thursday 3 Prize Giving Ceremony (6 - 8pm)
Thailand trip returns
Evensong Choir at Hampton Court Palace
Friday 4 End of year Celebration Assembly
End of Term, 12pm finish
Reports go out
HCH Staff Summer Social