CLAREMONT SCHOOL Weekly Newsletter Monday 29th February 2016 Contact Us Claremont Prep and Nursery School Baldslow St Leonards-on-Sea East Sussex TN37 7PW Tel.: 01424 751555 Website: www.claremontschool.co.uk General Enquiries: [email protected]Newsletter Editor: [email protected]Dear Parent, Half term seems like a distant memory already, but it was fantastic to welcome back all of our pupils and staff after a well-deserved break. Everyone seems to be fully recharged and excited for the opportunities in the final three weeks of this term; indeed Year 7 went off almost immediately on Thursday to La Maison Claremont in St Omer. Claremont pupils are a talented bunch and we were delighted when 4J reminded us in assembly last Friday, of the importance of performing arts in our lives. This week there is so much happening that I scarcely know where to start! So many of our children are involved in the Hastings Music Festival this year and many will be involved in the individual singing and piano classes, as well as Brass Day which take place over the course of the week. Music is such an integral part of school life at Claremont and I am really looking forward to the Afternoon Tea Concert on Tuesday afternoon in the Chapel. The school is lucky enough to have a second concert on Friday afternoon, when Pre-Prep and Nursery pupils will be taking to the stage in their animal-themed Mothers’ Day Concert. All this would be busy indeed, but on Thursday the whole school will be celebrating their favourite fictional character, by dressing up for World Book Day. With so many character from which to choose, it is a tough challenge, but the Regency grace of Anne Elliot from Jane Austen’s Persuasion would be my preferred personal choice. On Thursday, a group of Year 7 and 8 pupils will be travelling to London to see ‘War Horse’ just before its West End run concludes in March. On Friday, pupils from Years 3, 4 and 5 will get to grips with the challenges and possibilities inherent in 3D printing. And of course all this when many of our pupils are busily rehearsing for Claremont’s Got Talent. Last Monday in assembly, we were lucky enough to hear from Mrs Smalldon (mother of Henry Year 3, and Edward Year 4), who has been raising money for PACE, which is a charity based in Buckinghamshire providing an "education for life" to children with very complex disabilities including cerebral palsy and related physical and sensory impairments. We were shown a very inspirational film of the children overcoming huge obstacles to achieve a personal goal. Conquering her own fears, we then saw a film of Mrs Smalldon jumping out of a plane and free-falling from 15,000 feet. PACE is a fantastic charity which does so much important work with young people and as a school we are very pleased to support it. Abra Stoakley INSIDE THIS ISSUE Prep News ................................ 2 Pre-Prep News .......................... 5 Senior School News ............... 7 Birthdays & Match Reports ....................... 10 Menu, Prefects, AtLs ............ 12 Nursery News ........................... 13 Claremont Senior School is top of the GCSE league tables in East Sussex Our new website will be launched on the 7th March. WEEK 9 Feb 29 Mon Hastings Musical Festival - Junior & Intermediate Singing Classes Individual Hockey: In2Hockey County Championships U11A VII (A) Eastbourne College Astro 10:00AM Mar 1 Tue Hastings Musical Festival - Junior & Intermediate Singing Classes Individual Afternoon Tea Concert Chapel 5:00PM 2 Wed Hastings Musical Festival - Piano Classes Boys’ Hockey U11 Sutton Valence Prep Tournament 1:00PM Netball: v Skippers Hill 2nd U11A (A) U11B (H) Netball: v Bethany 1st and 3rd (A) Netball: v Skippers Hill 2nd (U11A) (A) (U11B) (H) 2:30PM 3 Thu Hastings Musical Festival - Brass Day Hastings Music Festival - Piano Classes World Book Dress Up Day - Whole School Year 7 & 8 War Horse Trip - London Boys' Hockey. U9A Ashford Prep Tournament. 1:00PM Boys' Hockey. U9B Mini tournament @ Marlborough House. 2:00pm 2:00PM Hockey: v Vinehall - U9B & U8B (A) U9A& U8A (A) 2:30PM 3:00PM 4 Fri Pre-Prep & Nursery - Mothers Day Afternoon Tea Concert 2:30PM
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(class 3060); William de Wilde class (3004); Julia Malcolm (class 3064);
from 6pm Julia Malcolm, Arjun Kolani (class 3124); Galina Baxter (class 3068); Arjun Kolani, Galina
Baxter (class 3156)
Thursday March 3rd Piano from 9.00
Class 3016 - Galina Baxter, Alfie Saunters, Javier Gomez, Ania Muntean, Isobel Zaltzman
Class 3020 - Eadie Bridger, Eve Spencer, Hattie Hawkes
Class 3024 - Julia Malcoln, James Day, Harry Bridger
Class 3104 - Galina Baxter
Thursday March 3rd Brass Afternoon from 2pm
Class 3560 - James Gardiner, Sebastien Starr
Class 3564 - Julia Malcolm, Alfie Saunters
Class 3588 - Brass Ensemble - Rufus Bate, Charles Willard, Finlay Gibbon-Brooks, Julia Malcolm,
Alfie Saunters, Sebastien Starr, James Gardiner
Transport to the Festival and then back to school: if your child is doing an individual performance
then it is expected that transport to and from the festival will be arranged by parents. please
contact Mrs Harris-Prior if you have any queries.
Brass players will travel to the Festival by minibus but will be expected to be picked up by their
parents afterwards on Thursday afternoon. please contact Mrs Harris-Prior if you have any
queries.
There will be an Afternoon Tea Concert next Tuesday afternoon 1st
March at 5pm in the Chapel. Mrs Harris-Prior will contact parents of
performers directly. Parents are welcome to attend and support. Tea
will be served afterwards. Pick up after the concert will be from the
Chapel no later than 6pm.
Reception have been learning about 3D shapes this
week and brought objects from home. They have been
learning to name the shapes and describe their
properties.
Reception turned into storytellers this week and took
turns to retell the story of Goldilocks and the Three
Bears.
Before half term Year 2 had to
chop their own fruit (not as
easy as you'd think..but all
succeeded) to create a sugar
free jelly pot!
Edward and James enjoyed
Lego building during a wet
break indoors.
We also ordered the months
of the year correctly!
Tick tock tick tock, we
learnt to read the hour
hand on a clock!
After all the excitement we
decided to go for a quiet read
in our lovely reading corner.
We like reading.
This week Reception and
Year 1 looked at
camouflage; having to go
on a hunt as birds for
fluffy worms hidden
throughout the forest
(though Mr Henham had
hidden some so well even
I couldn't find them!)
Some were bright pink
pipe-cleaners...others
green which allowed a
discussion about food
chains and what would be
easy to find! The Year 2
Forest School took a
different path with the
children split into two
groups...Mr Henham vs
Miss Flanigan to create a
den using camouflage nets
to fit your whole group
in!!!
Miss Flanigan
Mrs Bell's Pre- Prep
Art Club enjoyed using
paper mache and
collage techniques to
create 3D jellyfish
puppets. Well done
everyone!
The following people have earned their Yellow Badge:
Mollie Blackford, Edward Marsden, Isla McKechnie, Joshua Key,
Lucas Patel, Daisy Taylor-Heath, Miles Nicholls, Stanley Yeats,
Sophia Testa, Willow Kirkcaldy, Elizabeth Morley, Emil Venter-
Rathbone, Ethan White, Toby Nicolle, James Smith.
TERM’S TOTAL HOUSE POINTS:
Purple: 734
Orange: 716
Yellow: 613
Trip to Asturias, Spain
During the February Half Term, sixteen Claremont students from Years 10, 11
and 12 went to Gijon, Asturias. We stayed with host families and took classes
at a Spanish Language School. We did lots of exciting things like visiting the
Town Hall and enjoying eating chocolate con churros, a local speciality. Out of
all our Spanish experiences, we enjoyed
the food the best!Anna Collins, Emily
Oaten and James Cross, Year 10
I had an amazing experience when I
went to Gijon, Asturias with my
Spanish class and other students at
school. I had a great time at the
Language School and my Spanish
speaking has improved greatly with
the help of our teacher Pablo. We
were only there for a short while,
however, our visits to the old town of
Gijon, the talk we had at the town hall and walks on the beach really
interested me in the culture of northern Spain.
The activities put on by the Language School – ‘Mundidiomas’ - were a great
way to use the Spanish we had learnt and put it into practice.
If I were to go back to Gijon, it would definitely be for longer as I felt I was
getting into the rhythm of speaking Spanish with the people there. I stayed
with a good family, and their house was only a small stroll away from the
Language School, which was very convenient. Tom McGee, Year 12
Claremont Senior’s Black Box Talent Evening Please don’t forget that our Black Box Talent evening, a talent showcase and charity fundraiser, is drawing closer and will be
held on the evening of Thursday, 10 March at 7.30pm. Tickets are on sale from the School Office for £3.50 per person, with
the added incentive that all the money raised will go to the Pestalozzi International Village, our nominated charity of the year.
The Pestalozzi Village will be performing a cultural dance sequence on the night. The evening promises to be a fantastic
showcase of the talent here in the Senior School of the students - and staff!
Mrs Bartle, Head of Music and Ms Cakebread, Head of Drama
The Jive Dancing Club perform at Pestalozzi Cultural Dance Evening
On Thursday, 11 February, Claremont Senior School's Jive Dancing club performed a crowd-pleasing American jive to the
sounds of 'Rock around the Clock' at the Pestalozzi Cultural Dance evening. Claremont and Battle Abbey School were both
invited to share the stage with Pestalozzi's international students, who performed traditional and modern dances and
songs from their home countries including Nepal, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Uganda and Zimbabwe, at a well-attended event to
raise money for the international village.
Representing the Jive Dancing club were Leo Levinson, Sophie Nye, Harrison Wells, Mr Gary Foster-Adams (instructor),
Alexandra McKenzie-Sanchez and Mrs Mimi McNally (instructor). Our hosts from Nepal made us feel very welcome and
introduced us to many of the Pestalozzi students taking part in the event. The Jive Dancing team will perform again at the
Black Box Talent evening organised by Year 12 Drama Students for Thursday, 10 March.
Claremont students and Mrs Romero and
Mr Cobley by the harbour in Gijón
Visiting Gijón’s Town Hall
Tom McGee, Will Saunders, Martha Holt and Theo
Plummer tucking into chocolate con churros
Inter House Competitions
The Friday afternoon before Half Term our students participated in our regular Inter House Competition between our four
Houses: Bodiam, Camber, Pevensey and Scotney. Our students got stuck into pursuits as typical as netball and as unexpected
as ‘Dead Lift Off’, competition and ‘RAP Battle’ all raising the competitive heat. At the end of the afternoon, Bodiam was at
the top of the Leader Board with 240 points. Congratulations particularly to all in Bodiam.
Match Reports Netball
U14 Match Report for Tuesday, 23 February
The U14s travelled to Cranbrook School this week for Netball. The match proved to be a very competitive and exciting contest. It is
certainly the best game I have seen the team play this season so far.
The score was close throughout the match; at the end of the first quarter it was 4-3 to Cranbrook, at half-time it was 6-5 to Cranbrook, at
the end of the third quarter it was level at 9-9, and in the last quarter Cranbrook just edged clear and won 13-10.
Player of the Match (as voted by Cranbrook Team): Hollie Pooke (C)
Miss Taylor, Girls' Games Teacher
1sts Senior Netball v Moira House
Well done to the girls who played an extremely competitive match, with the score line so close at the end of each quarter. The game was very
fast and furious with both teams playing some great technical netball. In the final quarter, the girls played with 6 players due to injury and
held it together well to finish the match on a draw. Well done to Grace Clarke in centre, Issy Walsh for her constant hard work and to Lydia
Dunham in defence. It was a great result, final score: Claremont 12 - Moira 12.
2nds Senior Netball v Moira House
This was also a great match with the girls being able to play at positions they may not have the chance to play usually. We had a few pupils off
ill so needed to juggle the team around giving the chance for Amy Hilton and Sacha Melnikova to join the 2nds. The girls played some lovely
fluent netball, demonstrating great skill. Well done to the whole team.
Final score: Claremont 22 - Moira 14.
U15A Netball v Cranbrook – Tuesday, 23 Februay
The girls played a very tough match but worked hard until the very end, they showed excellent fighting spirit. The Cranbrook girls were
extremely tall and this proved tough for the Claremont girls. Emily Bewsher worked hard in the centre third as usual and Amelia Phipps
worked tirelessly in defence. There were some great plays throughout the whole match. Well done to all the girls, but unfortunately Cranbrook proved too strong for us.
Final Score: Claremont 10 - Cranbrook 32.
U15B Netball v Cranbrook – Tuesday, 23 February
As the match progressed the Claremont girls started to come together and to play well. Maria Mateo Taracido played well as
goal attack, Chloe Manning worked endlessly in defence and Poppy Pearce was a key player in the centre third. The girls are
really improving as a team, Well done.
Final Score Claremont 11 - Cranbrook 35. Miss Blackman, Head of Girls’ Games