I am very proud of our academic enrichment opportunities at Claremont, which help to shape our students as creative, independent thinkers who are curious about the world around them. I hope that this booklet gives you a taste of some of the events and activities that are available, all of which help equip our students to discover new ideas, engage in new ways of thinking, and enable new ideas to be formed within our school community.
Highlights from last term include the visit from Professor the Lord Robert Winston, who delivered an inspirational talk on aspects of his career, education, science, ethics and politics and answered thoughtful questions from our students. In addition, as part of the requirement of their EPQ qualification, participating Y13 students delivered insightful and engaging presentations on their project findings and process, covering a range of topics including: ‘What were the leading causes of the Argentine crisis 1981-2001?’ and ‘Should perpetrators of criminal activity be exempted from prosecution on the grounds of mental health or clinical negligence in the US?’ to name only a few. Well done to all involved!
We very warmly encourage all students to participate in the wonderful events and activities on offer.
* Full details of our academic clubs and societies, with times and locations, are available on the co-curricular programme. All students who wish to form a society of their own should contact Mrs James and Ms Coombs.
• Film Club
• Food science club
• Science club
• Science competition club
• STEM club
• Advanced science practical lab
• Coding club
• Medical society
• GCSE Theology Club
• Environmental club
• Geography club
• Debating club
• Philosophy club
• Literature beyond the word
• Astronomy Club
• Law Society (new student led)
• Book Club
• Forensic Psychology/Criminology Club
Thursday lunchtimes, Pages and Soane
Years 10 and 12
Tycoon is a unique national enterprise competition. Every participating team writes a business plan, is lent money, starts a business and trades, competing with other student companies.
Ms CoombsThursdays, 1.20 - 2pm, Orleans Years 7- 9
Tuesdays, from 17 January, for four weeks, 1.20-2pm, Orleans All years welcome
Tuesdays 1.15 - 1.45pm, Vanbrugh Years 7-9
Thursdays 1.15-2pm, Art1 Year 7 Year 7 – 13
These are online subject tasters and taster lectures. Students need to register via the UoH website.
Media lecture: Versions of Reality – Representation and Film 17 January 2023 (virtual) 17.00 - 17.45
Midwifery Lecture: The role of the midwife 20 January 2023 (virtual) 16.00 - 17.00
Early Childhood Education Lecture: Every Child has … 25 January 2023 (virtual) 16.30 - 17.15
Geography & Environment Lecture: Where worlds collide: Geopolitics, Geography & Glaciers at the poles 26 January 2023 (virtual) 17.00 - 18.00
Law Taster Lecture: Murder - Defending the indefensible 30th January 2023 (virtual) 5 – 6pm
Sport lecture: Learning musculoskeletal anatomy for sports courses 31 January 2023 (virtual) 16.30 - 17.10
Primary Education Lecture: Becoming a primary school teacher 7 February 2023 16.30 - 17.30 (virtual)
Nutrition and Dietetics Lecture: Food labelling – do you know what you are eating? (virtual)
22nd February 2023 5 – 6pm
Monday 16th January 2023
Assembly Monday 16th January 2023
JGC 6- 8.30pm
Year 8 are taking part in the prestigious ESU Performing Shakespeare competition. Round 2 will involve participating students introducing and then performing their chosen monologues to an audience and external adjudicator. The competition not only brings to life the Shakespeare study requirement in the curriculum in an innovative and exciting way, but it also enables students to develop their creativity, their confidence and their ability to express themselves – crucial skills for the classroom as well as the wider world. We wish them luck!
18th January 2023
7.30 – 10pm Guildford Live!
19th January 2023
4-8pm JGC
24th January 2023
1-5pm Rose Theatre
25th January 2023 Sports department
KS4 and KS5
30th January 2023
5-6pm Location TBC
An introduction to the most heinous crime in the criminal law – still based on a 400 year old definition. Come and discover (amongst other things) when it is lawful to kill someone, what a ‘reasonable creature’ is and when someone is deemed to be legally alive
Students should email Ms Coombs if they are interested in attending.
1st February 2023
Great Room and Drawing Room 9-4pm
6th February 2023
Great Room 6-8.30pm
Year 7 students are taking part in ‘‘Poetry By Heart’, a national competition in which young people choose poems they love, learn them by heart and perform them at their school. For round 2, participating students will perform their poems to parents and an external adjudicator, who will decide which students will go forward to the national round of the competition!
7th February 2023
9th February 2023
Mansion ground floor 5- 9pm
w/c 20th February 2023
Assembly
23th February 2023 Year 9 9-10.30am, Great Room
Marcel will visit Claremont to share his testimony as a survivor of the Holocaust. He was born in Paris, to Austrian parents, who had fled to Paris in 1938 after the Anschluss, Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria. The German Army invaded France in May 1940 and entered Paris on the 14th June 1940. In May 1941 Marcel’s father was arrested by the French police, leaving his mother alone whilst heavily pregnant and with two year old Marcel. Realising the desperate situation, she decided to go into hiding with the children. If they had not gone into hiding they would have been arrested in 1942.
24th February 2023 9-4pm 27th February 2023 Oxford 8.30-4pm
March exact date TBC
1st March 2023 4-5.30pm Great Room
2nd March 2023 Year 7 8-4pm
To celebrate World Book Day, Joseph Elliott, creator of the new Shadow Skye fantasy adventure series.
7th March 2023 Great Room and Drawing Room 9-2pm
17th March 2023
9-4pm 23rd March 2023 (Specific Y12 pupils) 12-2pm Drawing Room
YOU CAN WRITE! YOU CAN BE HEARD! YOU CAN WIN!
The Orwell Youth Prize uses the writing of George Orwell as a starting point to inspire you to write about your own ideas and experiences. At a time when many issues, from the climate crisis to the cost of living, feel out of control; abuses of power are happening throughout the world; and misinformation makes it hard to know who and what to believe:
Who or what is really in control, of our futures, our bodies, our communities, our countries, our planet?
This year, we want you to think and write critically and creatively about who or what controls aspects of the world we live in, how we might be able to find new ways to take control of our futures and most productively use the power that we have.
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-youth-prize/abouttheyouthprize/introduction/
Students should email Mrs Kassam if they are interested.