Newsletter 17th September 2018

CLAREMONT RATED OUTSTANDING IN ALL
SCHOOL AREAS BY OFSTED - 2016

Weekly Newsletter INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Monday 17th September 2018 Prep News ................................... 2
Mathletics ………………… 6
Claremont School Match reports……………...8
GCSE Results 2017: 31% A*/A Commendations & House Points…...10
A Level Results 2017: 34% A*/A Pre-Prep News.............................. 11
Nursery News............................... 15
Dear Parent or Carer,
WEEK 3+4
A belated, but warm and heartfelt, welcome back to our new and existing
pupils, our parents and, of course, our staff. The school, which seemed very empty Mon 17 Sept Yrs 5, 6, 7 & 8 Girls
over the summer (holiday activity club attendees notwithstanding), over a seemingly Only Swimming Gala v
endless fifty-four days, was suddenly teeming with life again. It is as if we are, as a Bedes Prep
community, whole again once more.
19 Girls Hockey v
The summer was extremely busy, in terms of works that are both complete Ashford Senior
and ongoing. The demolition of the bag store and the changing rooms at the bottom Wed School: 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
of the hill focused much of the attention; I think we would all agree that the en- 4th VII Venue TBC
trance to the school (which is taken by the majority of pupils and parents) has im- 09:00-
proved. We are keen to develop the space which has been created, in conjunction Girls Hockey v Sacred 16:00
with the ideas of our pupils. Our American lockers experienced a slight glitch in Heart: U11ABCD (h) 14:00
terms of a key engineering part on the production line, but have been shipped and
are sailing (thankfully) in our direction, much to Mr Brownbill’s relief. Year 8 Girls - HPV
Injections, First Dose
It was wonderful to mix with parents, both new and “old” at our drinks re-
ception last week. We are keen to get the Parent Representative group up and run- Inter House Football
ning, so please contact me if you are keen to continue conveying the thoughts and
ideas of your class, or if you have not been a Parent Rep before and would like to Thur 20 Football v St Ronan's. 14:15
join the forum. U9 (A), U8 (H) 14:30

The lateness of this first newsletter of the term is, regrettable, but due Netball v St Andrews
to a very special reason. Miss Burton in the Front Office got married at the end of Prep: U9A, U8A,
August and has just returned from her honeymoon. The new Mrs Douch and her U9/8B (h)
husband celebrated their reception at the school. They were not the only
Claremont couple to have celebrated their nuptials on site this summer: Mr Suther- 21 Brenchley Relays 14:30-
land was the first to so in a memorable woodland-themed extravaganza in July. Con- Cross Country - Yrs 5- 18:00
gratulations to both of our Claremont newlyweds.
8
While we are on new beginnings, I would like to welcome our new staff for-
mally. It has only been two weeks, but in many ways our new teachers feel very well U13 SESSFA League 15:30-
established already. Miss Darlington has brought new energy (and sketchbooks) to Fixture v St Richards 17:00
the Art Department, and Mrs Barry has added musical flair (and ukuleles!) to the Home
Music Department, and Mr Ware is already a firm favourite as a Maths and Science
teacher. In Pre-Prep, Mrs Anderson’s calm demeanour and clear boundaries have Sat 22 Annual Fundraiser
made for excellent learning in the first few weeks of Year 2. Our new appointments 25 Event (Brian
have enabled the school to extend its specialist teaching in the Pre-Prep Depart- 26 Mammone).
ment, where the children enjoy specialist teaching in Music, Art, Drama, Sport and
French. Yrs 6, 7, & 8 Swimming 17:15-
Gala v St Ronans 18:15
There is a lot to which to look forward in the coming weeks. All Form
Teachers should have contacted parents by now, and the Form Teacher is definitely Girls Inter House 14:30
the first port of call if you have any concerns about your child, whether academic Hockey: U13 & U11 (h)
or pastoral. The Pastoral Heads of Year (Miss Jackson – Years 3 – 4; Mr Cook –
Years 4 – 6; Mrs Ackerley – Years 7 – 8) are also there for more serious concerns European Day of
It is crucial that, as a school, we keep communicating with one another and, to that Languages
end, we have arranged for more of our teachers to be available at Check Out at the
end of the day. Football v Vinehall. 1st,
3rd, Colts A&B (A).
We are all looking forward to a positive and productive term. 2nd, 4th, Colts C (H)

Abra Stoakley Thur 27 5C depart for la
Maison Claremont,
Saint Omer 14:15

Netball v The Mead:
U9A, U8A, U9/8B (a)

Football v Vinehall.
Yr3&4 (H)

Year 7 & 8 Team Building 2018

Ryan: I learnt more about my team mates
Betsy: Improved my team working skills of doing challenges and sharing ideas
Joseph: I learnt different ways of working things out
Freddie: It is easier to do the challenges as a team rather than on your own
Anna: Work as part of a team in a challenging environment
Javier: It made me work with different people, rather than my friends
Sam: It further made our team gel together
Amelia: we met new people
Ashley: It was great to get to know people from different backgrounds

EBI:
Reflection on island game. Mix up the year groups to meet other people.



Archie was selected to play in a prestigious tourna- Melanie passed her Grade 4 exam in Wing Chun
ment at St George’s Park (England’s HQ) . They Kung Fu she was awarded her certificate plus a
played 5 games winning all 5 plus the final . They are Red and White belt at the weekend.
the Champions!

Saffron Andrew and Anna Irvine
Capel joined the cast of Barefoot
Opera's 'Carmen' last Friday and
performed at St Mary's in the Cas-
tle in Hastings. They will be per-
forming again on Friday 21 st Sep-
tember. They took part in the chil-
dren's chorus as street kids!

We Need You!

The Friends of Claremont School (FOCS) are looking for more committee members
to help raise money for the school. Our principal aim is to support school events
such as Bonfire Night, the Christmas Bazaar and helping in the Uniform Shop.

Last term, over £4000 in funding requests were distributed throughout the school
which included, a Projector for the Senior School, a Touring Theatre preform-
ing The Nutcracker at the school, funding more animals for the Science and Zoology
Club, new books for the library and a new Learning Support system. In the past we
have funded the Adventure Play Ground and the Peace Park.

Joining the committee does not mean you have to give all your spare time and you
can give as much or as little as you want. It would be great if we had someone with
a marketing backgrounds to give some spare time in a creative way.

Being part of FOCS also involves making the important decisions on where our money
is spent.

If anyone is interested, please contact me.

Tricia Edwards
FOCS, Chair
[email protected]

07841191063

Mathletics

Bronze Silver gold
Winners Winners Winners

Matilda Brownbill Emilia Willis Emma Patel
Lucas Patel (5) Summer Cutbush Dylan Kist
Ella Smith Abesa Sivaseelan
Miles Nicholls Joseph Patel (2)
Oliver Long
Dylan Kist
Issy Latuskie (2) Ania Muntean
Tom Robinson (2) Emily Wentworth
Thomas Willis
Emily Stanley James Furnival
James Smith
Thomas Willis (4) Lucas Patel
Emilia Willis (5) Ava Edwards
James Furnival (4) Cosmo McKenzie
Lilli Lewis (2)
Katy Tipping
Sarah Biddle

Dora Glass
Enzo Manzi
Cameron Namvar
Eva George (5)
Edward Wentworth (1)
Emma Patel (4)
Abesa Sivaseelan (5)
Ruby Cutbush (2)
Olivia Cox
Joseph Patel (5)
Dylan Kist (5)
Ania Muntean (4)
Imogen Laurense

Mathletics

Bronze Silver gold
Winners Winners Winners

Leo Heap Ella Manuel Emilia Willis
James Rowland Eva George
Miles Nicholls Sam Corrigan
James Furnival
Isabella Latuskie

Toby Nicolle
Thomas Willis
Tess Rowland
Abesa Sivaseelan
Javier Gomez

Lucas Patel
Dylan Kist
Ania Muntean

Mathletics

U11B Hockey vs. The Mead

Claremont 7 - 1 The Mead
POM: Liberty Bransby-Miles

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the pitch which we did nicely. Tilly was great at getting her stick down in defence. Esme P and Issy of-

Winners Winners Winnersfered great support around the D. Fife, Liberty, Elizabeth, Summer and Eva worked hard in midfield to

get the ball up the pitch and score. Well done girls.

Cameron Luff Dylan Kist Katy Tipping
Darci Bailey Rosie Burrows
Edward Wentworth

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Dora Glass Amelie Foreman

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ever TheJaMmeeasdRgorwalabnbded a chance and scored first. Zoe and Charlotte showed real determination and
sprintVeadrnaikhaePaadrtohfastahreaitrhydefence and Zoe scored twice in quick succession. In the second half The Mead
came back strong and put our defence under pressure at the goal mouth and an equaliser came. Olivia
worked tirelessly and managed to pass across the goal for Charlotte to score. In the final minute The
Mead scored to finish 3 3. An exciting game.

Result: Drew 3-3

Mathletics
U8 netball v Battle Abbey

These girls have learned so so much this week, it’s a wonder their heads haven’t popped! Netball is quite a

Bronze Silver goldrule-laden game but we have tackled a few of them, in particular, team positions, areas of play, who marks

who eWtc. iAnnd onn teop rof asll that they had toWlearin nhowntoedorthes3 cheers at the enWd (piicnturned)ewhrichscan

get very complicated!

Well done, girls, for a lovely fun afternoon.

Cameron Luff Dylan Kist Katy Tipping
Darci Bailey Rosie Burrows
Edward Wentworth

Max Woodfear Cutler Blunden
Dora Glass Amelie Foreman

Emily Wentworth James Smith
Thomas Willis

Oliver Fakhoury

Sarah Biddle

Ella Manuel

Oliver Hammond

Yagiz Velidedeoglu

Miles Nicholls

James Rowland

Varnika Parthasarathy

U9 Netball v Bricklehurst.

On Thursday the U9 Girls kicked off the netball season with a closely contested 4-2 win over Bricklehurst
Manor. Amarisa G ( GA ) and Ella S ( GS ) scored two goals each.

Player of the Match this week was Olive D.

Zoe White, Miles Nicholls, James Smith, Georgia Crossley, Dylan Kist, Maggie McKechnie, Emma Patel,
James Rowland, Tess Rowland, Stanley Yeats, Jonathan Badrbeigi, Matilda Brownbill, Max Jones, Isla
McKechnie, Tom Robinson, Tino Tekenende.

Tom Chetwode, Ava Edwards, Dora Glass, Elizabeth Harrington-Pepper, Ryan Hughes, Charlotte Kerman,
Ania Muntean, Emily Wentworth, Jonathan Badrbeigi, Melanie Clancy, Summer Cutbush, Cosmo McKenzie,
Abesa Sivaseelan, Emily Stanley, Evie White, Matilda Brownbill, James Furnival, Dylan Kist, Isla McKech-
nie, Joseph Patel, Lucas Patel, Esme Perrin, James Rowland, Ryan Thomson, Emilia Willis, Thomas Willis,
Stanley Yeats, Darci Bailey, Eva George, Oliver Harrison, Ella Manuel, Scarlett van Eyssen, Henry Ware,
Stanley Willard, Rowan Barton-Dibble, Aubrey Cassleton-Elliot, Honor Cassleton-Elliot, Samuel Corrigan,
Leo Heap, Mollie Mizen, Sebastian Starr, Rosie Burrows, Athiethan Ilavalagan,

TERM’S TOTAL HOUSE POINTS: WEEK’S TOTAL HOUSE POINTS:

Sparta: 1149 Corinth: 541
Athens: 900 Athens: 536
Corinth: 896 Sparta: 631

Yellow Badge

Lucas Patel, Emilia Willis, Emma Patel, Abesa Sivaseelan, Dylan Kist, Joseph Patel, Jonathan
Badrbeigi, Matilda Brownbill, Isla McKechnie, Miles Nicholls, James Rowland, James Furnival,
James Smith, Thomas Willis, Eva George, Ania Muntean.

Green Badge

Dylan Kist

Henry R-S got the kind con- We welcome our Riding Club newbies - Alex,
duct award in 1S Tian, Ollie, Isabella and Tom.

This week we have had fun using an aerial view
photo to navigate us to two checkpoints!

1D are back and enjoying the
start of the new term. We
have enjoyed exploring num-
bers this week, finding a num-
ber and then counting the
same amount in objects.

Welcome back to Year 2!
Jack's new handwriting.
Lego building.

Outdoor maths in Y2.
2P made stained glass crosses in RE.

Pre-Prep Dahlicious dress up day!

Ducklings &

Butterflies

Welcome back to all of the Ducklings and Butterflies we hope you all had a lovely summer!

Both the Ducklings and Butterflies have really enjoyed going for Autumn walks through the Forest School
where they found objects to make their Autumn mobiles and saying Hello to our wooden animals.

On Tuesday the Babies went for a bug hunt with Zeta into the Jubilee garden where we found lots of wig-
gly worms and bugs which was great fun.

Towards the end of the week all of the children enjoyed lots of messy activities using paint, glue and sand.

A big welcome to our friend Imogen who has started in Ducklings.

Robins

This week we went on a bug hunt in the Jubilee Garden, we were fascinated with finding worms and slugs
under the logs. When we came back to nursery we found more bugs under our flower pots. We have also
started making spiders for our bug display board. The colour in Robins this week is green and we have
produced some fantastic work to display on our window display.

Hedgehogs

This week we are welcoming the new children into Hedgehogs. We have been playing lots of group games
and getting to know each other. The new children have been exploring the classroom and making lots of
new friends. We have also been focusing on British values. We have been learning why it is important to
share and take turns with our friends, especially as we have new toys in the classroom. We have also
practised saying 'please' and 'thank you' to our friends at Nursery because it is important to use our
manners.

Badgers & Foxes

This week, the Badgers class have been learning
about shapes. We decided to go on a shape walk,
hunting the grounds for shapes in our environment
and we were very successful .We then decided to
paint with different shapes, creating a colourful
painting. In addition to this, we have been getting
wet, jumping in puddles and also been developing our
counting skills using the parachute.

This week in Foxes we had fun planting our winter
vegetables in the Jubilee garden. We also had lots
of fun sticking pom-poms to make our Hungry Cat-
erpillar counting board. We enjoyed making bubble
paintings, using straws to blows paint on to card,
making lots of different patterns. We also wel-
comed Archie to the Foxes class.

Squirrels

Welcome to the Squirrels classroom!

This week we have been settling into our new classroom with our friends. We’ve been exploring the
new toys together and playing number games on the interactive whiteboard. We’ve been busy painting
leaves for our new display board using autumnal colours and we’ve started to learn our numbers 1-10.
Everyone has settled in really well this week. Well done, Squirrels. have been concentrating on turn
taking and sharing. We’ve got some new toys in the classroom such as dolls’ world and dolls’ world ac-
cessories. The children have been taking it in turns to take care of the babies. We’ve been looking at
colours and playing colours bingo. We had the musical instrument box out at the beginning of the week
and played along to different nursery rhymes together and learned to clap the beats in the songs.