Welcome from the Executive Head Teacher 

Thank you for your interest in Claremont High School. I am delighted you are considering being a part of our School. Claremont High school founded in 1930 by the Middlesex County Council, and was one of a number of new schools built by the council between the wars in the rapidly developing outer suburbs of London. Claremont is now a multi-specialist school. In 2012, the school gained academy status, joining many other local schools. In the autumn term of 2017 Claremont High School Academy formed a MAT. A Multi Academy Trust (MAT) is a group of institutions who see the benefit of working together with other schools in a more formal arrangement. All academies within a MAT are governed by one trust and a single board of Directors. This is the organisation that runs a number of academies under a single charitable company.

As a member of our team, you would play a pivotal role in supporting the school to deliver an uncompromised curriculum and life enriching opportunities, together with extraordinary care and support. 

As a School, we are expertly placed to enable our students to flourish whilst also ensuring they are well equipped to understand and meet the challenges they face with empathy and humility. Our staff know and understand each student to enable them to find their place in the world.

We are a very popular choice for parents / carers and currently have 1643 pupils. I am very proud of our whole school community; it is a wonderful place where everyone enjoys learning and are effectively supported to maximise their potential. Our teaching and learning staff are very committed to the children and young people and strive to bring out the very best in all of them. We work extremely hard to support all our children and young people to develop the skills they will need for the future.

Our aim quite simply is “To prepare our students to reach their full potential”.  We know that we are very successful in doing this because we have students, staff and parents who are totally committed to our core values of Excellence, Respect, Aspiration, Enjoyment and Perseverance. These are the values that are celebrated and upheld across the academy so that students of all ages and abilities are able to make exceptional progress academically, socially and personally.  It is the strength of these core values that has led students to make an excellent and smooth transition from their much-loved primary schools, so they achieve excellent GCSE an A Level results.  This enables them to make the transition to top universities and colleges and to secure excellent professional careers in fields such as Medicine, Finance, Law, Teaching and Business.  Many have achieved sporting success well beyond the school environment and others have found true excellence in performing and the visual arts.

When it comes to academic achievement, our goal is nothing short of excellence across all three of the key stages. Pupils are able to achieve excellent results because we set the highest expectations in learning and behaviour and we provide them with a broad, balanced and enriched curriculum that meets their needs and aspirations. We have a dedicated and passionate team of well qualified and highly skilled staff who provide outstanding teaching, and this is reflected by our excellent GCSE and A-Level results which remain significantly above national averages in all headline measures year on year. This was further validated by Ofsted in both 2015 and 2010 when we achieved Ofsted Outstanding gradings, an endorsement of everything we do at Claremont.

Alongside our reputation for academic excellence, we also pride ourselves on our outstanding pastoral care, providing a very positive environment in which students thrive. As each new student joins us, we take the time to build a genuine partnership between family and school.  You can be sure that your child will be nurtured and enriched in a supportive and challenging academic environment.

Our team is diverse with a healthy mix of youth and experience, with relationships between staff, students, and with parents, extremely positive and caring. Key to this are our core values of respect for ourselves, our peers and our community, whilst aspiring to achieve the best we can in our relationships and our interests.

We are committed to ensuring that the talents of all students are recognised and encouraged. Students benefit from first-class facilities and an exciting range of extra-curricular activities which develop confidence and skills for lifelong learning beyond the classroom.

Ms N. Hyde-Boughey

Executive Headteacher