Newsletter 27th November 2017

CLAREMONT RATED OUTSTANDING IN ALL
SCHOOL AREAS BY OFSTED - 2016

Weekly Newsletter INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Monday 27th November 2017 Prep News .................................2

Claremont School Match Reports ..........................7
GCSE Results 2017: 31% A*/A
A Level Results 2017: 34% A*/A Menus, Commendations
House Points .........................9
Dear Parent,
Pre-Prep News...........................10
Nursery News ...........................12

Fiddler on The Roof, Christmas in
Battle .........................................15

It is possible that most of you were unaware that we had Ofsted in last week! It was a WEEK 12 Parent Lunch 12:15
Social Care and Welfare Inspection of the school, in which the inspectors ensure that the
National Minimum Standards for Boarding are met. It is a very thorough process, in which Nov 28 Tues Girls Hockey v 14:00
the focus is on four key areas: effectiveness of leadership and management; health and Dulwich Prep: 14:45
protection; overall experience and progress of students; and overall judgement of social 29 Wed 1st, 2nd VII (A),
care and welfare. We have been expecting this inspection for some time and welcomed a U11A (H) 13:00
very professional and experienced team to the school. As with last year’s inspection, Nov 30 Thur Girls Hockey v 14:15
judgements can range from Outstanding to Inadequate, and we can expect the report to Dulwich Prep: 14:30
be published in a few weeks’ time. Dec 1 Fri 3rd, 4th VII (A) 14:30
U11B (H) Astro,
We are proud to report that our U12 football team has enjoyed significant success last U11C (H)
Friday in progressing to the fourth round of the English Schools Football Association’s Na- Sportshall
tional Cup by beating Bede’s comprehensively 6 – 2. The Claremont team, made up of Senior School
William de Wilde, Tise Palmer, Harrison Bardrick, Barney Mitchell, Freddie Saunders, Lu- Production—
cas de Oliveira, Ossie Wookey, Alfie Saunters, Jacob Watson, Henry Ware, Marley Neill Years 6,7 & 8
and Shanazar Muhammetnazarov, are in the final 32 schools nationally (out of an initial Rugby v Vinehall
142 schools) and we are very proud of their progress. In other sporting news, some of our Years 3 & 4 (A)
girls reached the U12 finals of the Ron Easton Tournament in Eastbourne for the South Netball v
Saxons Hockey Club. They were: Tess Rowland, Anna Bourne, Olivia Cox, Emma Patel and Vinehall: U9A&B,
Amelia Barrett. Congratulations to all of you, for your achievements. U8A&B (H)
Squirrels
We have finalised our ‘Countdown to Christmas’ today and there is certainly so much to Christmas Sing-a
enjoy in these last few weeks of term. The Years 6, 7 and 8s are watching the Senior -long
School production of Fiddler on the Roof this week; the Squirrels will be participating in a
‘Christmas Sing-a-long’ on Friday; next week we have the Badgers, Foxes, Reception Nativ-
ity on Monday, Years 1 and 2 Nativity on Tuesday; the Winter Warmer on Thursday and
Carols at the Conquest on Friday. To end the week on a really positive note, the eagerly-
anticipated Christmas Bazaar takes place on Saturday. I look forward to seeing many of
you at these festive events.

Abra Stoakley Contact Us
Claremont Prep and Nursery School

Ebdens Hill
Baldslow
St Leonards-on-Sea
East Sussex
TN37 7PW
Tel.: 01424 751555
Website: www.claremontschool.co.uk
General Enquiries:
[email protected]
Newsletter Editor:
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Tess Rowland, Anna Bourne, Olivia Cox and Emma Patel and Amelia
Barrett played in the Ron Easton Tournament in Eastbourne this
weekend for the South Saxons Hockey Club U12s. They made the
finals (ultimately finishing 4th) and they all deserve a big pat on
the back for their efforts, not least playing for 3 hours on a cold

Sunday morning!

Waste Week in Madame Hood’s Class.

This week Year 6 learnt new French vocabulary
in the context of the the European Week for
Waste Reduction- la Semaine Europeenne de la
Reduction des Dechets and made posters to
raise awareness and to show their learning of
new vocabulary.
(Acute accent on first e of europeenne and on
the first e of dechets,)
Here is the first poster made by Ciaran Day
6E featuring key words such as: la poubelle-
bin, le verre- glass, le papier- paper, le plas-
tique- plastic.

FOCS Christmas Bazaar, 9th Dec. @ 11am

For our annual Christmas Bazaar we are looking for Raffle Prizes. If there is
anyone interested in donating a prize from their business we would be very
grateful. We will be happy to promote your business and donation through
our Facebook page and the school newsletter.

If you are able to donate something, please contact me.

Tricia Edwards,
FOCS, Chair
[email protected]

On Friday 8th Dec. FOCS, Friends of Claremont School are holding their
annual Mufti day in aid of their event, FOCS Christmas Bazaar. This is
one of the highlights of the FOCS calendar and a great fundraiser. We
are asking children to donate something for us to sell during the Ba-
zaar.

We are looking for things such as:
* Bottles of wine
* Chocolate
* Cakes
* Unwanted gifts
* Books/Games
* Pre Loved Teddies

For all students in Years 3-8 please hand in your donations into the
chapel first thing in the morning. All Pre Prep students please give your
donations into your form teacher.

Thank you very much in advance.

Tricia Edwards
FOCS, chair

Last week, Claremont Senior and Prep School welcomed Precision Sports (https://www.precisionsports.tech). The Preci-
sion team spent the day at both of the Claremont sites working with senior and prep school students. The aim of Precision
Sports is to track individual players during sport: the pods collect a variety of different variables from training sessions or
matches. The Precision team collected data from a session with the Football Academy, a selection of senior school ath-
letes and a Prep School hockey team. The data that collected indicated to us the workload an athlete completes within a
sporting fixture. This data allows the school to monitor, for example, how many sprints and how much distance these indi-
viduals covered within a twenty-minute school fixture, in addition to
this, it also allowed us to monitor top sprinting speeds. This com-
bined with the additional training sessions at school with one’s clubs
and weekend fixtures can mount up to be a considerable amount of
exercise.

The pods called PrecisionWEAR, indicated to us that too much isn’t
always a good thing as it can lead to injury in the long term or allows
us to predict if injury is on the way. PrecisionWEAR also helps to
inform us on when to allow individuals to rest or to not participate
in the intense elements of a session. The table below contains the
basic measures of the sessions combined at the Prep and Senior
school; the table contains the simple measures that is provided with
this software. PrecisionWEAR also goes into more detail with re-
gards to looking at acceleration and deceleration, impacts, right left
leg loading and running gait (how the body moves). The school has
been offered a deal for any athletes that wish to purchase the prod-
uct for £170.00 one-off cost and £50.00 per year to have access to
the AI which will give you an explanation of the data collected. The
software allows the school’s coaches to link in as well. The Precision
Sports pod is currently sold at £250 plus the software cost. We will
continue selling the PrecisionWEAR pods over the year but after this offer is end the price will be £200 plus the soft-
ware. All orders need to be placed and paid for before 1st December 2017, this will allow us to get delivery before the
holidays. If you would like to place an order or want any more information, please do not hesitate to contact me
([email protected]).

PrecisionWEAR offer is also open to parents that play sport or train for fitness as it will allow you to have a sport scientist
in your pocket.

Junior Knole Run

Last Friday saw one of the biggest U13 Cross Country events take place at Sevenoaks Senior School around
the very scenic but extremely tough Knole Park. With a very small start line and a narrow straight into the
first corner, getting a good start and being amongst the front runners was key in this race! There were 280
in the girls race and 302 in the boys race! Along with 61 schools from across Kent, Sussex, Surrey, London
and even some schools as far as Hampshire and Suffolk take part. There were some outstanding performanc-
es on the day and each runner had their own targets going into the race. In the boys race our Cross Country
captain Elliot W came in a brilliant 81st, Artem S was closely followed in 84th and Ellison V-R who is a year
younger came 88th. The U13 girls race Tarran B-D came in 195th, with Madeleine R slightly ahead in 190th
position. However, once again, the performance of the day was from Eleanor S in Year 7 who finished a stag-
gering 7th place. Well done to all our runners who again competed with great determination. We look forward
entering a more events in the new year.

Years 4, 5, 6 Swimming Gala v Vinehall

Our youngest swimmers went over to Vinehall for a training
gala last week and got some good practice in. For a couple
of our swimmers they were involved in their very first gala.
With a lot of the races shared out amongst the swimmers
it gave those that haven't done too much swimming in the
past a try out at different strokes. Some of the races
were very close and the Year 5 girls won their Medley Re-
lay. Well done to all our swimmers who tried extremely
hard.

Mathletics

Last week all of the pupils in Year 5 and 6 took part in the Primary School Mathematics Challenge.
This is a national competition with many challenging multiple choice questions. The final page offers the

opportunity for the pupils to really apply their problem solving skills.

The following pupils were the top performers in the school.

Bronze Winners Silver Winners Gold Winners

Amelia McCarthy Reuben Dickie Arjun Kolani
Arthur Ford Eddie Carr Taylor Max Woodfear
Oscar Rushant
Diya Binodh
Gonzalo San Pedro Montiel
Zac Buggy Galina Baxter
Rufus Bate
We now Anna Irvine-Capel
Henry Smalldon
have to wait to see if Arjun gets through
to the next round! Well done to all of those winners!

Bronze Winners

Year 8 Year 7 Year 6 Year 5 Year 4

Matthew Brand Samuel Corrigan Reuben Booth Darci Bailey Buckley Blunden Esme Boussaid

Emma Curl Charlie Glasper Reuben Dickie William Bligh Teddy Bridger Ben Field

James Bourne Ania Muntean Matthew Biddle Aboorva Ilavalagan Amelie Foreman James Furness

Ander Lazkano Gorostiza Jake Stanley Javier Gomez Josh Langham Un- Elizabeth Kirby Oliver Harrison
derdown James Smith Oliver Hammond
Isabella Moloney Athmihan Ilavalagan Harry Hammond William Staley Isabella Latuskie
Fife Palmer
Tise Palmer

Freya Starr Lilli Lewis

Year 3 Tygrul Velidedeoglu Emil Venter-
Ethan White Rathbone
Miles Nicholls Olive Dickie Thomas Willis
Emilia Willis
Scarlett Van Eyssen Athiethan Ilavalagan

Alicia Wieczerzak Varnika Parthasarthy

Cutler Blunden Lexy Tuddington

Silver Winners

Elliot Wilson, Natalia Ramus, Tami Akindele,
Eddie Carr Taylor

U11A’s v Battle Abbey:

The U11A’s continue to impress me every week. They have grown into a hard working cohesive team
who produce some fabulous hockey.
Claremont had a comfortable 3-0 lead at half time and continued to dominate play in the second half.
They attacked with pace and showed good decision-making and fully deserved the 9-0 win. Goal-
scorers were Emma P (4), Lizzie S (2), Amelia McC (2) and Amelia B (1).
Player of the Match this week was Emma Patel.
Another good win, well played girls!

U11B Hockey

The U11 B hockey team had another great fixture this week against the Sacred Heart School. It was
a very closely contested game in the first half with 2-2 the half time score. Claremont put their skills
to the test in the second half and were dominant in attack, winning the match 6-3. The team should
be commended on their excellent team spirit and improved tactical awareness. A special mention must
go to Fife, our player of the match, who scored her second hat-trick of the season!

U8 Netball v St Andrews

A great 6-1 win this week for the Y3 girls with goals
from Amarissa, Ella (3), Ava and Olive
POMs Olive (pictured) voted by St A and Maggie vot-
ed by Miss H.
Won 6-1
3 cheers!
Important POM decision-making!
POM Olive

U9B vs St Andrew

Claremont 8-7 St Andrews

An exciting end to the game with lots of goals
scored, good accurate passing and great inter-
ceptions. The girls worked well as a team. Well
played, everyone. Miss Compton.

U10’s Rugby

Claremont 9 - 4 Vinehall

Our U10's played their first game of the season last week and ran out 9 tries to 4 winners. It was an ex-
cellent team performance. Tries were shared out between Harvey W - 3, Max W - 2, Orlando S - 2, Ar-
thur F, William B. Our rucking was excellent, winning every ball that was placed to ground. Tackling was
very good throughout. It was a great start to the season and thoroughly enjoyable to watch. Max W was
Man of the Match.

Claremont 4 - 1 Ashford Prep

This week saw us host a triangular with Ashford Prep and Marlborough House. The afternoon was con-
tested really well by all schools. Again the rucking and tackling was excellent once again. Orlando got him-
self 3 tries to take himself 5 for the season. Harvey W also ran over for the other try. We used the ball
well at the breakdown and managed to find space through some intelligent running. Man of the Match -
Orlando S.

Claremont 0 - 1 Marlborough House

Our second game was against a very strong tackling Marlborough House side. They scored a really worked
try down the wing. However for all our efforts and dominance on the ball we couldn't quite break them
down. We were close on several occasions and were very unfortunate to not to score a try. The team once
again played really well and our tackling and ripping off the ball from Max, Teddy B, Will B was excellent
throughout. Well done to all the boys who played.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Main Course Spaghetti Pork or Turkey Roast Gammon Mild Beefy Chilli Fish Fingers or
Bolognese Sausages served served with roast Con Carne served Breaded Cod
Vegetable with mash potato with Basmati Rice
Selection Quorn Bolognese and onion gravy potatoes and served with Chunky
gravy Mild Quorn Chilli Chips
Dessert Soup of the day Vegetarian Con Carne served
with a crusty roll Sausages Quorn Roast with Basmati Rice Veggie Fingers or
Veggie Nuggets
Soup of the day Soup of the day Soup of the day served with Chunky
with a crusty roll with a crusty roll with a crusty roll
Chips

Soup of the day
with a crusty roll

Garlic Bread and a Garden peas and Broccoli and Carrots Green Beans Peas
mixed leaf salad creamy leaks Jacket Potato Beans
Salad Bar
Salad Bar Salad Bar Sweetcorn Salad Bar
Greek Yoghurt with
Ginger sponge with Apple brown betty homemade granola Salad Bar Rocky Road
toffee sauce with custard Selection of Fresh
bits Strawberry Mousse
Selection of fresh Selection of Fresh Selection of fresh with Raindow Fruit
fruit Fruit Sprinkes
fruit
Selection of Fresh
Fruit

Amelia McCarthy, Fife Palmer, Ella Smith, Lexy Tuddenham, Galina Baxter, Isabelle Cole, Amarisa Ghattas, Abesa Sivaseelan, Freya Starr, Max
Woodfear, Anna Bourne, Arjun Kolani, Lucas Patel.

Diya Binodh, Buckley Blunden, Bob Chetwode, Emma Curl, James Day, Reuben Dickie, Daniel Hayes, Ryan Hughes, Amelia

McCarthy, Ania Muntean, Maddie Ritchie, Xander Samuel, Eve Spencer, Scarlett Van Eyssen, Henry Ware, Rachel Waters,

Joe White, Isabella Willard, Tami Akindele, Lucinda Barber, Tarran Barton-Dibble, Galina Baxter, Matthew Brand, Eddie Carr

Taylor, Honor Cassleton-Elliot, Samuel Corrigan, Thomas Field, Lilrose Hancock, Cohen Luff Meade Ramus, Natalia Ramus,

Luca Rose, Oscar Rushant, Artem Sinhaievskyi, Jake Stanley, Georgia Tipping, Elliot Wilson, Rufus Bate, James Bourne, Zac

TERM’S TOTAL HOUSE POINTS: Buggy, Lyra Cookson, Georgia Crossley, Lucas WEEK’S TOTAL HOUSE POINTS:
De Oliveira, Olivia Hazelwood, Athiethan
Sparta: 6231 Ilavalagan, Anna Irvine-Capel, Dylan Kist, Arjun Corinth: 675
Kolani, Emma Patel, Joseph Patel, Max Riches,
Athens: 6141 Gonzalo San Pedro Montiel, Henry Smalldon, Athens: 730

Corinth: 6120 Sparta: 679

Elizabeth Staley, Tallulah Stichbury, Ryan

Thomson, Ellison Venter-Rathbone, Jacob Watson, Stanley Yeats.

Gold Badge: Ania Muntean

Silver Badge: Lucas Patel, Amelia McCarthy, Imogen Laurense, Matthew Brand, Emma Curl, Rachel

Waters.

Bronze Badge: Amarisa Ghattas, Thomas Willis, Eddie Carr Taylor, Reuben Dickie, Javier Gomez, Max

Riches, Ella Carr Taylor, Sam Corrigan, Lucas De Oliveira, Dylan Kist, Tise Palmer, Meade Ramus, Eve Spencer,
Jake Stanley, Henry Ware, Tami Akindele, Olivia Hazelwood, Tallulah Stichbury, Elliot Wilson.

Red Badge: Athi Ilavalagan, James Rowland, Ella Smith, Emilia Willis, Tess Rowland, Amelia Barrett,

Rosie Burrows, Anna Irvine-Capel, Cameron Luff, Joe Corrigan, William de Wilde, Thomas Field, Charlie
Glasper, Daniel Glass, Marley Neill, Ryan Thomson, James Day, Georgia Tipping.

Green Badge: Lexy Tuddenham, Teddy Bridger, Toby Nicolle, Katy Tipping, Fife Palmer, Max

Woodfear, Harrison Bardrick, Phoebe Mathews, Cohen Luff.

Yellow Badge: Arthur Ford, Shanazar Muhammetnazarov.

Reception

Reception children enjoying splashing in Holly on the playground- it
puddles on a rainy Monday afternoon must be nearly Christmas!

Year 1

If you go down to the woods today… you
may find the Year 1 explorers!

We used blow art to give
ourselves new hair styles!
Zara and Alexander, we
think you look great with

your new funky hair!!!

1L used Google to research the artist Edvard Munch. They found
the painting ‘Moonlight, 1895’ and used it to inspire their artwork.

Year 2

2B are into festive spirit with our reindeer game!

We made Pudsey Bear ears for Mollie’s aunt made her a
Children in Need day! ‘family tree’ for her
class’s fingerprints.
Eddie was awarded Chris Moose, the 2F
Kumon certificates pet went to Rainbows
for Maths and Eng-
with Isla! :)
lish!

Peg boarding with Elizabeth, Jimi
and Mollie!

Pre-prep riding club on their
last session this term!

This week in Foxes we have started to become very festive! You may have noticed lots of glitter
everywhere! On Monday this week our lovely foxes decided to create their beanstalk paintings
into a wonderful calendar for the new year. We got covered in paint and sparkles! Tuesday we
started to think of ideas for our Christmas decorations and spoke about what we put on top of
our Christmas tree. We came up with some great ideas! But we do not want to ruin the surprise
for our gifts to be given out shortly. We also had a fantastic French lesson with Mrs Brownbill.
We learnt how to say lots of Winter Wonderland words in French. Then on Wednesday we got to
sparkle glitter everywhere as we helped Miss Greenfields turn our classroom into an amazing
Winter wonderland. Thursday we were very busy little foxes getting ready for our nativity per-
formance in music which is on 5th December 2017, so not long now! Friday we explored the woods
with Miss Flanigan on the search for cheeky elves and fairies. In the afternoon we got to dance
to Christmas songs making sure we used our listening skills for when to freeze like a snowman.

This week the Badgers have been up to a wide range of things, we have been getting
ready for Christmas and have been busy rehearsing for our Christmas production
(Monday 4th December 2017) so we have been singing our hearts out! We have also
been on the most fantastic winter walks, which then turned very muddy. During this
time we played many group games which promoted our counting and listening. The
most exciting part however, was when we discovered a rugby ball, which we decided
was a dragon’s egg! This prompted lots of throwing and catching as well as running.
In addition to this, we have found time to cover shape and measure, by using meas-
uring tapes to see how long we are and other objects in the classroom as well as Ra-
chel.

This week the Hedgehogs have been using their senses. We have been using our
ears for listening to the noises around us, our hands for touching and feeling when
we played with the sensory feely box. Some of the Hedgehogs had a try at fruit
tasting ,where we talked about which of the fruits we liked and disliked. We are
practicing everyday now for our Christmas Sing-a-long ,which we hope you will come

and watch.

This week in Robins we have been making some fantastic pictures for our
winter display using the salad mixer. The children loved turning the handle
and watching it go round and round this made some wonderful effects. We
have also started Christmas craft activities which we won't give away too
much as we don't want to ruin the surprise at Christmas time!.

This week the Ducklings have enjoyed making shapes out of
playdough using the cutters and rolling pins, chalking using the
large chalks and singing time where the babies joined in with

some action rhymes!

This week we celebrated
Joe's birthday and he
brought a cake in to
share with his friends.

We have looked at stories
and how they are

structured and tried
making up our own

stories. Also this week we
looked at the story 'The
Snowflake' and made our
own snowflakes using gold

and silver paint.