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Portsmouth road
Esher, Surrey
KT10 9HZ*
(*Please note this is nearest postcode)
Co-curricular life at Claremont
From Reception onwards, our broad and exciting co-curricular programme becomes an important part of Claremont life, with over 80 clubs each term spanning six key categories.
Pupils excitedly explore new interests or develop existing passions – from sport to science, ballet to bushcraft, fencing to forest school. Led by our experienced staff and specialist coaches, every club is designed to be fun, enriching and confidence-building, with pupils helping to shape the programme and make it their own.
Sport at Claremont
We value sporting endeavour just as highly as achievement. Our wide-ranging sports and games programme encourages every child to give their best, celebrating effort, teamwork and participation at every level.
With specialist staff and coaches and extensive and on-site facilities (including a full-size sports hall, multiple pitches, tennis courts and a heated pool), weekly PE lessons enhance our pupils coordination, skills, stamina and teamwork.
Games lessons and regular fixtures allow the children to compete in a wide range of traditional sports, including:
Athletics, basketball, cricket, cross country, fitness, football, gymnastics, hockey, lacrosse, netball, rugby, swimming and tennis.
Weekly match training and competitive fixtures, with a strong emphasis on sportsmanship, give every child the opportunity to learn the value of persistence and how to conduct themselves with dignity, whether winning or losing. Regular house events and our traditional sports’ day provide additional competitive opportunities for all, whilst the victor and victrix ludorum events and inter- school tournaments to national level challenge our elite athletes.
An innovative outdoor education programme, which takes advantage of our glorious surroundings, promotes our core values of respect for one another, cooperation and camaraderie whilst enjoying the childish delights of activities such as den building or carrying a balloon body on a home-made stretcher through the woods.
Trips
We believe in learning both inside and beyond the classroom.
Regular day trips are arranged for all year groups making the most of our excellent location near to central London and the south coast. Residential trips take place in each year group and help promote team building, as well as providing a fantastic opportunity for learning in context. We seek to provide a programme of trips that broadens the experience of the children beyond that which they might enjoy with their family. Regular trip highlights have included: a costumed tudor banquet; language immersion trips to France; dragon boat racing; theatre trips and skiing.
Invisible ink
We value equally those parts of the learning experience which are traditionally measurable – such as mathematics and English – alongside those elements which generally remain hidden from view. Our children enjoy teaching and learning, curricular and co-curricular experiences, in the spirit of their success being their personal progress and development. Weekly recognition assemblies celebrate these successes, and encourage the children to believe that the grade achieved matters less than the efforts and experiences that helped achieve this. In this way, every child can strive to do a little more tomorrow than they do today, motivated by the real sense of purpose and meaning in all that they do.
