Category: Claremont School News

14th November 19

Following a week of persistent rain and drizzle, Claremont once again hosted the annual Dobson Trophy Cross Country competition in glorious sunshine. Renowned for being one of the most challenging cross country courses on the circuit (even without the mud), the sports team had the ingenious idea of  running the course in the opposite direction…

6th November 19

Year 8 pupils celebrated ‘”Día de los Muertos“, or Day of the Dead by making their annual pilgrimage up to the Senior School to join forces with their fellow students in Year 9. The morning was filled with Mexican culture-themed workshops and competitions with plenty of opportunities for everyone to practise their Spanish speaking skills. …

30th October 19

Today, our senior school assembly was hosted by the International Schools Partnership’s lead charity, the UK based Street Child United.  In a packed Space Theatre, Co-Founder and CEO John Wroe and Street Child United World Cup Squad footballer, Sam Richards delivered an intriguing and  humbling insight into the work the charity carries out across the…

28th October 19

Year 11 artists took a trip to the coolest photography exhibition in town this week in search of inspiration for their own future projects. Captivated by Olafur Eliasson’s In Real Life installations at London’s Tate Modern, the students later experimented with different photographic styles to create some of their own ‘sense heightening’ works of art. Take…

21st October 19

The Claremont Equestrian team have had a very tiring & busy weekend at Nationals. We had riders there from Friday 18th October  – Sunday 20th October competing in very wet and muddy conditions, but in true Claremont style, their fabulous team spirit and support for each other was absolutely outstanding. The whole squad have spent…

22nd August 19

Claremont students celebrated another year of excellent GCSE results with 7% growth in the number of students achieving grades 9-4 (previously A*-C) from last year. A number of the results were outstanding with Lea-Lynne Rongier achieving 8 and 9 grades in 10 different subjects. Oliver Hill achieved top grades across all the Sciences in a…

15th August 19

We are thrilled to be able to the share the news of a fourth consecutive rise in A Level achievement at Claremont and we couldn’t be more proud of the Class of 2019.  At a time when grades have plateaued across the country our school has continued to develop impressively, having first opened to students…

24th April 19

Following a three-day Ofsted inspection in March, Claremont School has been judged ‘Outstanding’ across all categories.   Having secured 16 out of 16 ‘Outstanding’ judgements in all of its previous three inspections, the School received high praise from inspectors once again; recognising consistency in the quality of teaching and learning from the Nursery and Pre-Prep, all…

21st March 19

At Herstmonceux Observatory and Science centre this week, Pre-Prep children were treated to a day of discovery amongst the domes and telescopes of the world famous observatory.  They learnt about the inner workings of the telescopes and even studied some of the images they produce. The children were wide-eyed with wonder as they watched the…

21st March 19

To celebrate British Science Week 2019, pupils researched, built and presented their own science experiments at an interactive Science Fair full of surprises.  In a diverse and sometimes explosive range of demonstrations, the children were able to dispel myths, create chemical reactions and answer some very curious questions from every corner of the science world. …