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Hammersmith Academy is celebrating outstanding GCSE results, going against the grain of a downturn in top grades being awarded nationally. […]

Unique teaching space brings together healthy eating, gardening and sustainability. Hammersmith Academy formally launched their new Outdoor Kitchen Classroom, a […]

Nine extraordinary secondary school pupils have won a prestigious Mayor’s Coldstream Guards Prize. The annual awards are championed by the […]

To mark the BBC’s centenary, the corporation launched Share Your Story, a landmark project that inspires young people to achieve […]

Hammersmith Academy GCSE students bucked the trend of a national downturn in results by surpassing the country’s 2021 GCSE attainment […]

Hammersmith Academy Sixth Form students celebrate A-Level and BTEC success with 50% of all grades awarded A*-B, bucking a national […]

Hammersmith Academy students spent the day at King’s House School Sports Ground where the England Men’s Rugby Team were training […]

The Mayor of Hammersmith & Fulham, MP Andy Slaughter, and entrepreneur, philanthropist and Hammersmith Academy founder Tom Ilube CBE joined […]

Year 11 and Year 13 students react to The release of information about the summer exams from Ofqual and the […]

Following the Secretary of State for Education’s visit to Hammersmith Academy, Mr Zahawi appeared on the BBC to talk about […]

Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi, visited Hammersmith Academy on the first day of the spring term to see […]

On Friday 5th November 2021, the Mayor of London announced Hammersmith Academy as one of the winners of the first […]

  Two Hammersmith Academy students were among the four young prize winners from H&F celebrated at the first annual Mayor’s […]

  Hammersmith Academy GCSE students continue to raise the bar with a high attaining set of results which exceeds all […]

Hammersmith Academy Sixth Form students celebrate A-Level, AS Level and BTEC results with the largest number of students achieving places […]

Pupils and teachers at a Shepherds Bush school have won a prestigious award for its gardening programme. Hammersmith Academy has […]

During the lockdown period academies and schools supported students and their families with home learning. Teachers provided a host of […]

Hammersmith Academy celebrates students’ GCSE success despite uncertainty brought by covid-19 and government u-turn on awarding of grades. GCSE Standout […]

Hammersmith Academy students, along with their national counterparts, received A-Level, AS Level and BTEC results in unprecedented circumstances. For the […]

Entrepreneurs in Action’s Classroom to Boardroom initiative connects students with businesses to tackle the underrepresentation of black talent in the […]

The Academy welcomes its newest and most numerous members of the HA community. The Academy’s rooftop garden is now home […]

Maths Teacher, Ms Suganthakumaran, is named a NESTA Classroom Changemaker 2020. NESTA is an innovation foundation that celebrates the use […]

Food For London Now faces: ‘Children can’t learn if they’re hungry’ The headteacher of Hammersmith Academy’s message is clear, if […]

This year at Hammersmith Academy, World Book Day was not just one day, but a whole week! Throughout the week, […]

Faraday Challenge is an annual STEM competition for students aged 12-13. The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) is one […]

STEM students get competitive at this year’s First Lego League. Ms Ferrell reports from the event. FIRST® LEGO® League is […]

The Academy marked Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 with a very special interview. Ms Samuels tells us about the occasion. Each […]

Academy students make appearance on Mayor’s Fund Count on Us Challenge training video. Hafiz (Year 13) explains what happened behind […]

Culture week was a concept developed by sixth form students to highlight the diversity of the academy community and learn […]

Rising star, Beabadoobee, also known as Beatrice Laus, returned to Hammersmith Academy after recently completing her A-Level studies in the […]

This year the Academy community raised an impressive £1,581.65 for BBC Children in Need. Students, parents and staff generously donated […]

Lorena (Year 13) was a member of the winning team at the 2019 Schools Economics challenge. She tells us what […]

An Arkwright Engineering Scholarship is the most prestigious scholarship of its type in the UK to inspire and nurture school-age students […]

The Academy is celebrating its strongest set of GCSE results to date, with 88% of the cohort entered for the […]

The Academy celebrates continued A-Level success and surpasses last year’s Oxbridge achievement with students gaining places at both Oxford and […]

Last academic year a decision was made to extend our already successful garden, more than doubling the green space. This […]

Santander’s ‘The Numbers Game’ Roadshow utilises the power of football and UEFA Champions League to highlight the importance of numeracy. […]

National Gardening Week is the UK’s biggest celebration of gardening, with events held up and down the country. This year’s […]

On Friday 15th March, Year 8 and Year 10 Academy rowers travelled to the Copper Box Arena in Stratford to […]

The Academy was dressed in red to raise money for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day. The Academy community raised an […]

The Bett Show showcases the latest products and developments in education technology. The show is attended by schools, colleges and […]

This year’s dramatic highlight brought Las Vegas and church to Hammersmith academy’s theatre. Ms Dale, Acting head of drama, takes […]

Sixth Form students were not old enough to vote during the EU Referendum held in 2016, yet arguably, they are […]

Sixth Form Media students were invited onto the set of BBC’s ONE show to see a live broadcast in December. […]

At the end of the Autumn term, the Academy set a challenge to all tutor groups to help raise donations […]

The Academy is delighted to have been crowned school winners of Cultivation Street, a national award founded by celebrity gardener, […]

Hammersmith Academy Sixth Form student, Hadeel Elshak, was announced as the winner of our Breaking into News competition run in […]

The Academy continues a strong GCSE results trend in only its third year of GCSE results and the second with […]

Hammersmith Academy celebrates outstanding Oxbridge and Russell Group success of founding student cohort. The Academy celebrates the results of its […]

BBC Gardeners’ World presenter Frances Tophill visited pupils at Hammersmith Academy, who are the winning team in the Royal Horticultural Society’s […]

On a very cold Monday morning in February, eight student rowers from the Academy travelled to City Hall to attend […]

Four of our Year 9 students became the envy of their friends when they were selected to review Marvel’s Black […]

Hammersmith Academy’s Anti-Bullying Ambassadors helped launch LBC Radio’s Anti-Bullying Charter. The student ambassadors, who have been working with The Diana […]

The Academist is Hammersmith Academy’s termly newsletter, containing articles and stories from the full spectrum of Academy life. In this […]

Students talk to Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio London about being Mayor for the day. Students from Hammersmith Academy appeared […]

Dr Andrew Parmley, the 689th Lord Mayor, addressed Hammersmith Academy’s Sixth Form students as part of the Academy’s ‘Insight Programme’ […]

Hammersmith Academy achieved some outstanding grades in only our second year of GCSE results. Following on from last academic year, […]

Hammersmith Academy celebrate their best ever A Level results, with students making significant progress across the board. We’ve seen another […]

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Hammersmith Academy is shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of one its founding students Frank Moylett, after a short […]

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Hammersmith Academy create history with their first ever set of GCSE results from their founding students.

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Mahatma Gandhi ‘Living as if every day was your last’ is an undeniably popular, if perhaps a bit morbid, sentiment […]

Saturday 30 April 2016, 3.30pm & 5.30pm The Britten Theatre, Royal College Of Music, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BS […]

Hammersmith’s Academy’s Assistant Headteacher Peter Saunders did us proud last term by taking home the Pure Potential Leadership Award. Pure Potential […]

Hammersmith Academy Prevent strategy available for download PREVENT STRATEGY PARENT LEAFLET At Hammersmith Academy We believe that a child’s welfare […]

Hammersmith Academy have been winning at life this year, with three impressive victories in diverse national competitions. To kick off, […]

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Nelson Mandela In order to think about this quote from Nelson Mandela it’s important to define exactly what we mean […]

Chinese proverb In the last blog I talked about the virtue of resourcefulness when faced with challenges or a deficiency […]

Kobe Bryant Kobe Bryant is a professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). […]

If you want love, give love; if you want honesty, give honesty; if you want respect, give respect. You get […]

Gautama Buddha, commonly known as the Buddha, is recognised by Buddhists as an enlightened teacher who taught that suffering could […]

Our thought for this week comes from Norman Ralph Augustine Norman Ralph Augustine is a US aerospace businessman who served […]

Our thought for this week comes from Will Smith. Will Smith is a hugely successful and well respected actor, rapper […]