The London School of Mathematics and Programming

♟️ Chess Tournaments at LondonSMP on Sunday 31 May 2026♟️

As part of our Open Day in South Kensington on 31 May, young chess enthusiasts came together for friendly and exciting Chess Tournaments filled with concentration and great sportsmanship.

Over 40 children in Years 1 to 6 took part in our Open Chess Tournament for competent players. We also ran ‘My First Chess Tournament’ for our pupils in Reception to Year 2 to provide them with the experience of playing competitively.

Participants demonstrated impressive tactical thinking and determination at the board, putting into practice the moves and strategies they have been learning this term and during holiday camps. From carefully planned openings to thrilling endgames, every match was an opportunity to learn, challenge themselves and enjoy the game.

We were delighted to see players of different ages and experience levels engaging with one another, making new friends and sharing their passion for chess.
Huge congratulations to all the children who took part and a really special thank you to all our chess team and volunteers for organising such an enjoyable event.

📸 Take a look at some highlights from the tournament!

There's still time to join us for our OPEN DAY at our school in South Kensington this weekend. If you haven't yet booked your place, we'd love to welcome you and your child to discover how we can support their STEM learning through our weekly classes, holiday camps, or both:

🗓️When: Sunday, 31 May
📍Where: Queen's Gate House at 65 Queens Gate, South Kensington, SW7 5JS

This event is designed for parents and children who are new to LondonSMP or who are interested in taking up additional subjects such as Maths, Programming, Robotics and Chess.
It’s a drop in day where you can learn about what we do and how we do it, our ethos, subjects taught, pupils’ achievements, academic outcomes and how we can help your child.
Your child can also join fun activities and workshops and meet our teachers. Please find the timetable on our website:
https://www.londonsmp.co.uk/open-day

We are proud to announce that LondonSMP is now registered with Ofsted. As an extracurricular school, our registration is voluntary rather than obligatory. However, as we already comply with Ofsted’s requirements, we have made this decision as part of our continuing commitment to the highest standards in education, including safeguarding.

We are also pleased to share that we are currently undergoing registration with tax-free childcare voucher schemes. Once this process is complete, we will be able to accept voucher payments. We will let you know as soon as this becomes available.

A look back at our Easter STEM Camps in Belgravia and Hampstead 🎥
From olympiad maths challenges to robotics and electronics, it was inspiring to see our pupils’ curiosity and confidence grow every day.
We look forward to welcoming you to our next STEM camps for children in Reception to Year 11. The dates are 26 to 29 May and from 6 July onwards!

The London School of Mathematics and Programming Easter Holiday STEM Camps

We are delighted to share our Easter holiday STEM Camp news with you - all eight of our camps across Belgravia and Hampstead were a great success this April!

Over two exciting weeks, students from age groups ranging from Reception to Year 11 explored a wide range of challenging and engaging topics, each in different camps designed for these different age ranges.

Our Junior STEM Camps introduced younger learners to the concept and logic of spatial reasoning, geometric transformations as well as coding, and electronics. This even included them constructing their own ‘Electronic Easter Egg’ as a project to take home. The following week, pupils tackled creative mathematical problems such as the Königsberg Bridge problem and Magic Squares. They even built their own ‘Talking Rabbit’ during hands-on electronics sessions.

At the same time, our Senior STEM Camps focused on advanced problem solving in maths and programming. Students worked on Olympiad-style challenges, developing logical reasoning, structured thinking, and clear written solutions. They also explored Graph Theory and Network Science. In Robotics and Electronics pupils took on the challenge of not only learning how to programme their own Space Game but constructing their own dual joystick game controller as well.

Camp wide, pupils benefited from small group teaching, personalised support and a rich combination of maths, programming, electronics, robotics and chess. It was inspiring to see their confidence, curiosity, and problem-solving skills grow day by day each week long camp.

We are incredibly proud of all our students and grateful to our dedicated team for delivering such an engaging and high-quality learning experience.

We look forward to welcoming you to our next camps from 26 to 29 May and from 6 July onwards!

We are delighted to welcome all our pupils back for the Spring Term, with many new faces joining as well, for a term of challenging classes in maths, programming, robotics and chess. 📐💻🦾♟️

A big welcome home to our student Lucy and our Head of Maths Dr Hrasko András Hraskó, just back from the annual UKMT British Hungarian Maths Camp in Budapest.

The camp provides intensive training for top UK maths students (often the best BMO1 performers) to prepare for Olympiads and is also part of the selection process for the UK IMO team. The camp features problem-solving training with Hungarian counterparts, a tradition supported by the UKMT and the British Mathematical Olympiad (BMOS). Congratulations to Lucy for reaching the level required to be invited! 🎉

Say hello to the UK team at the training camp in Budapest, Hungary (27 December–4 January), where students prepared for the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Now that's a way to bring in the New Year!

As our Autumn term draws to a close we can look back on a term full of achievements. Our Reception children who joined us in September have settled in well to their learning at LondonSMP, while we are proud of the many Year 13 pupils who have received invitations to interview at Oxbridge this December, and we’re wishing them lots of luck as well.👏

The 6 and 7 of December were the final days of term and the children were encouraged to wear their Christmas jumpers. Our classrooms were full of seasonal colours, joy and warm festive energy which made the last weekend of the term feel truly magical.✨🎅🏻

Although the term is ending, our Christmas STEM camps are about to begin! 🤩
From 15 to 19 December join us for these in South Kensington:
✅ for Reception to Year 3 we will be running our Junior STEM Camp, ‘Exploring the World of 3D Geometry and Building a Slide Projector’.
✅ for Years 3 to 11 we invite students to join the Senior STEM Camp, ‘Geometry, Understanding the Third Dimension, Technicolour Lights and the GyroCatch Project.

We wish you a wonderful Christmas, congratulate your child on their hard work this term and look forward to seeing you at the start of term on 10/11 January 2026.🎄✨

Over the October Half term we ran no fewer than seven camps, something for every age group and interest in the world of STEM. ✨🍁

In the first week children in Years 3 to 11 tackled Fibonacci sequences through to higher order polynomial functions while building working models of Battle Bots and TFT “uncanny eyes” display with integrated speaker/MP3 module with the SD card. Younger campers from Reception to Year 3 embraced Sequences and Patterns and made their own Scuttling Crab Bot. 🤖

The second week saw older children enjoy the challenges of Number Theory through to Combinatorics while programming a spooky bucket so it could detect sweets landing in it, making it light up and make a ghostly sound. 👻Older pupils took an anatomically correct model skull and with their newly learned skills in robotics added sensors, programmed an on board micro chip and installed eyes that glow and a motor to make the mouth move. 🎃
In parallel we also ran a Super Maths camp for Years 7 to 9 which introduced talented young mathematicians to the art of Maths Battles: problem solving through a competitive debate.

Our Christmas camps,15-19 December, explore the world of Geometry, with separate camps for Reception to Year 3 and older Year 3 to Year 11. Our Super Maths Camp for Years 10 to 13 is all about preparation for the British Mathematical Olympiad. See CAMPS for details and to book. 👉 https://www.londonsmp.co.uk/holiday-camps/holidaycamps