Newsletter 11th September 2017

CLAREMONT RATED OUTSTANDING IN ALL
SCHOOL AREAS BY OFSTED - 2016

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Monday 11th September 2017

Claremont School GCSE Results 2017: ?% Prep News .................................2
A*/A Match Reports ..........................5

Dear Parent, Pre-Prep News...........................7
Nursery News ...........................8
I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all of our pupils, both new and Football Academy News .........11
existing, at the start of the Michaelmas term. It seems incredible that nine weeks flew
by so rapidly, but suddenly the beginning of term had arrived and we were all gathered WEEK 2 Mon Full School
together in the O’Byrne Theatre for our first assembly. Together, we took inspiration Photograph
from the news that Malala Yousafzai had gained a place at the University of Oxford to Sep 11
read PPE, and resolved to set ourselves ambitious goals for the new academic year. We
were also pleased to welcome our new staff: Miss Alexander, Mrs Osbourne, Miss New- 12 Tues Badgers and
ton and Mrs Bourne. Foxes Parents
Evening, by
In this morning’s assembly, we had two visitors from Cancer Research, who had appointment.
come to thank us for all of the money that we raised at the end of last term during our
Fun Run for Cancer. The children raised an incredible £2672.25 for this extremely wor- 13 Wed Football v DPS. 1st 14:30
thy cause and I am very grateful to Matthew Brand (Year 8) for coming up with the idea, XI, 3rd XI, Colts A,
as well as his team of helpers for organising the event. B & C (H). 2nd XI,
4th XI (A)
We are very proud of the public examination successes enjoyed by Claremont
pupils this summer, particularly those children who came through the Nursery and Prep Hockey Coaching 14:30
School. Of particular note is the fact that both our Cambridge applicants secured their Games v Ashford
places. Alex Cornelius, who has been at Claremont since Nursery School, achieved A*s in Prep: U13A&B (A),
all his A Level subjects and will read Law at Trinity College and Ben Laurense, who will U12A&B @
read Mathematics at Trinity College, gained 4 A*s and a distinction in the Mathematics Bodiam.
Advanced Extension Award (AEA). Other notable achievements include Jonah Dickie,
who will read Veterinary Science at Nottingham, and George Klein who has gained a place 14 Thur 1st & 2nds Hockey 14:00
to read Medicine at Exeter. Nicole Edmunds, Izzie Marshall and Thomas Scoble all
gained three or more A*/A, and the overall percentage of A*- B rose by 9%. v Sutton Valence
(A).
I am delighted to announce that we have appointed Lyra Cookson as Head Girl
and Matthew Brand as Head Boy. They have already written to me to say that they would Football v Rose 14:20
like to focus their leadership of the school on diversity and inclusion, a focus which I Hill U9 A&B (H),
wholeheartedly support. We will be appointing the Deputy Head Boy and Girl in due U8A (A).
course.
15 Fri Badgers, Foxes
In a new development this year, we will be running a late link bus to the Senior and Pre-Prep
School, which will leave the Prep School every afternoon at 5.50pm, after clubs and Prep Wildlife Detective
have finished. Please contact Miss Burton in the Front Office to book your child’s place. Day.
Currently, numbers are limited to sixteen, but if there is significant demand, we will put
on another bus. Dahlicious Dress
Up Day
This Thursday, we will be having our first Cheese and Wine event of the term.
New and existing parents of pupils in Years 6 – 8 are warmly invited to join us from 6pm. Rawlinson Run 14:00
It is always a really enjoyable occasion, where parents can meet each other, as well as Cross Country @
their child’s teachers, in an informal and convivial atmosphere. I am looking forward to Dulwich Prep -
seeing many of you there. Years 3&4.

Don’t forget Dahlicious Dress Up Day on Friday! Contact Us
Claremont Prep and Nursery School
Abra Stoakley
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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A very warm thank you to all pupils, parents and Gold: Ania Muntean.
colleagues for their generous gifts, cards and
kind good wishes to me as I leave them and move Silver: Cohen Luff, Cameron Luff,
on to pastures new after a good 13 years. I was humbled by the
warmth of the children's farewell and I have promised to keep an Bronze - Isabella Latuskie, Amelia Barrett,
eye out for them when they come up to Vinehall for sporting Oscar Rushant, Cameron Luff (2), Abesa
fixtures! Whether it be French, English, RE, Latin, German or Silvaseelan(3), Charlie Willard, Tarran Barton
Maths that I have taught during my years at Claremont, I leave Dibble, Ania Muntean, Cohen Luff (2).
with many happy memories and will always be interested to hear of
my pupils' progress. Wishing you all a happy and refreshing
Summer holiday. Mrs Austen.

Main Course Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Vegetable
Selection Homemade Beef Homemade Beef & Roast Chicken & Chicken Tikka Breaded Pollock
Bolognaise Potato Pie Stuffing Homemade Penne
Dessert Vegetable & Spinach Pasta Margarita (Egg)
Vegetarian Bolognaise Vegetable Pie (Egg) Vegetable Pasties Curry
(Egg) Chunky Chips
Roast Potatoes Steamed Pasta Baked Potato with Mixed Salad Pots
Medley of Vegetables Sweetcorn Creamed Potatoes Filling of the Day
Baked Beans Garden Peas Sweetcorn
Salad Bar Carrot Batons Steamed Rice
Salad Bar Salad Bar
Homemade Lemon Salad Bar Seasonal Vegetables Fruit Crumble
Drizzle Cake Fruity Mousse
or or Homemade Apple Broccoli or
Flapjack Selection of fresh
Selection of fresh Selection of fresh or Salad Bar
fruit fruit fruit
Selection of fresh Steamed Chocolate
fruit Sponge & Custard

(Egg)

or

Selection of fresh
fruit

Diya Binodh, Ciaran Day, Ania Muntean, Galina Baxter, Antonio Ghattas, Isabella Latuskie, Oscar Rushant, James Smith,
Georgia Crossley, James Furnival, Arjun Kolani, Tess Rowland.

Ava Edwards, Ella Smith, Lexy Tuddenham, Scarlett van Eyssen, Ethan White, Alicia Wieczerzak, Lucinda Barber, Matthew
Brand, Amarisa Ghattas, Nikolas Kirby, Oliver Long, Cameron Luff, Cohen Luff, Miles Nicholls, Abesa Sivaseelan, Anna
Bourne, Georgia Crossley, Athiethan Ilavalagan, Elspeth Irvine-Capel, Maggie McKechnie, Lucas Patel, Orlando Soucek,
Tallulah Stichbury, Stanley Yeats.

WEEK’S TOTAL HOUSE POINTS:
Corinth: 368
Sparta: 318
Athens: 301

Gold Badge:
Silver Badge:
Bronze Badge:
Red Badge:
Green Badge:
Yellow Badge: Ania Muntean, Galina Baxter.

Our new Reception cohort are settling in very well to Some children in Pre-Prep attended the 1066
Claremont life. We cannot wait for all the adventures Gymnastics camp this summer and all of these
there are to be had! brilliant pupils received a certificate to show how
well they did. Well done to you all.

Frankie B and Melanie have both moved up a level in Kung Fu. Matilda and Mollie's rosettes were for
'most improved riders in group' at
Beauport Riding school pony camp.

To all our pupils in Pre-Prep,
new and old, we welcome you
back to school and hope you
have a fantastic year.

Hello and welcome to Foxes.

Our new Foxes have had an amazing time settling in this week. We have met our new class
teachers: Miss Greenfields & Mr Booth.

We have explored our fantastic farm shop role play area with real fruit and baskets. We love
weighing and buying all the different fruit.

We have also really enjoyed camping out with a good book in our very own camp site.

On Monday we really loved our dance lesson with Miss Greenfields - shaking our sillies out and
jumping up and down like kangaroos. On Tuesday we had our first ever French lesson where we
learnt to say hello in French: ‘Bonjour’. On Wednesday, we enjoyed creating amazing craft
pictures for Miss Greenfields to display. On Thursday we worked as a team and created really
tall towers in our construction time. On Friday we went on a dinosaur hunt, to find the missing
dinosaurs who were hiding around the classroom.

In Badgers this week, we have introduced the classroom and new environments, to help them
settle in to the routine and their surroundings. We have been introduced to Forest School, in which the children learned
the boundaries and took part in some circle games too. In addition to this, we have been getting messy when learning our
shapes, with multiple sensory based activities throughout the week ranging from; sand to aqua beads, this has supported
the children in recognising 2D shapes and also reinforced concepts such as capacity and counting.

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a lovely summer. We have some new
faces in the Hedgehogs classroom, and some new grown up Hedgehogs too: Jenn,
Donna Sweeney and Zeta Willard. This week we have be engaging in lots of social
activities to make our new friends at ease, and helping them adjust to a new routine.
We've been painting pictures for our display board and playing lots of friendship
building games.

The Robins room would like to welcome all our new children from
Butterflies, who have settled in very well. We would also like to welcome
Charlotte Thornley and Sandra Banford as two new members of staff as
well as Abigail Kirsopp, and Louise Coombe, who is now the Robins room
leader.
This week in Robins we are looking at the colour red and doing lots of lovely

A big welcome back to all the Ducklings and Butterflies and to Abigail
Kirsopp who has started this week. We hope you have all had a lovely
break. This week both rooms have enjoyed hand and foot printing,
playdough play with the rolling pins and cutters, and sensory play.
Please could all the Butterflies bring in some wellies with their names
on, as we are going to be having lots of fun in the woods and school
grounds. Thank you.

Squirrels have had a fantastic week. One of the activities was placing
familiar faces in sand and the children are asked to brush the sand away to
reveal the face hidden in the sand. They had a lovely time discussing where
that person might be in the Nursery! We then discussed the face and what
we liked about them. Our other focus has been on family and home life this
week, spending time talking about what we like to do with our loved ones in

our free time.