Claremont Nursery

Every choice we make has the wellbeing, safety, and personal growth of every student in its centre.
Relationships are key to outstanding pastoral care and the combination of our small class sizes and continuous focus on the individual means we know our pupils extremely well.
Form teachers and form tutors foster strong connections with pupils to ensure each day is happy, positive and full of purpose.
We work closely with parents to ensure continuity of care and to raise any concerns we may have about issues that could affect their childs health, wellbeing and engagement with their learning.
As part of our ongoing commitment to creating a happy and healthy environment in which all pupils can flourish, Claremonts much loved and well-established House system plays a key part.
Affiliation with a House gives pupils a greater sense of belonging and that anything is possible when you call on the collective skills and enthusiasm of a Team with the same aims and values.
The House system also enables pupils to mix with other Year Groups, using the wider resource to broaden their outlook, make new friends, celebrate successes, band together for the common good and, of course, enjoy the rewards of healthy House competitions.
The Spirit of Claremont is truly palpable and it is ever present during the many House fundraisers and competitions held at the Prep and Senior School each year.
Attitude to Learning grades (AtL)are also awarded termly at both the Prep and Senior School and 5 times a year in Pre-Prep.
Children in the Prep School receive stars of recognition for great work and exhibiting characteristics that will endure in life such as creativity, risk taking, collaborative working and time management.
The star system steadily builds confidence and levels of self-esteem, and on a daily basis, demonstrates to every child that he or she is valued and can make positive contributions to school life, whatever their level of academic attainment.
At the Senior School, The Claremont Senior League is reward programme that incentivises students to develop their sense of pride and achievement.
These points are cumulated over each half term with many opportunities for students to win prizes ranging from tickets to the front of the lunch queue to Headteacher commendations in Academic, Pastoral and Co-Curricular categories.
Pastoral care at Claremont is not just a complementary practice: it is an ongoing caring approach that is fully woven into the fabric of all aspects of school life.
The quality of relationships within the school and the formal and informal systems that operate together to monitor and promote pupil health and wellbeing means that the focus always remains on the individual and support is readily at hand whenever a pupil needs it.
The schools very well-established and highly successful programme to support pupils personal, social and moral development lies at the core of its work.
Despite our daughters upset at having to move from her existing school, she was welcomed with open arms by both staff and pupils on her first day and it has never really changed since that day!
Claremonts administrative and academic staff recognised the stress she had felt on moving and transformed her experience from a potentially traumatic one to a warm and comforting one a sense of belonging.