Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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YST Lead Inclusion School for Merseyside - Update
Fri 29 Mar 2019Clare Mount Specialist Sports College is the Youth Sport Trust Lead Inclusion School for Merseyside.
Here are some of things we have been up to in 2019 so far:
· Created a School Games participation opportunity for 70 young people on Merseyside with complex additional needs through the motor activities training programme
· Trained 65 training teachers at Liverpool Hope University to be able to use the motor activities training programme as part of their PE lessons
· Trained 16 young people from Wirral schools and 4 staff from the Hive Youth Zone to be wheelchair basketball activators
· Worked with LFC Foundation to deliver Unified Football sessions to over 200 young people at North Liverpool Academy, Clare Mount Sports College, Ridgeway High School, Prenton High School, South Wirral High School and Woodchurch High School
· Worked with 16 young people and 16 young people at Prenton High School and Clare Mount Sports College to look at how girls with autism can be supported to ‘Find their Tribe’
· Trained 5 teachers and 2 LJMU Sport Development students in how to run inclusive focus groups to find out what barriers female students with autism may face and how to overcome these.
We have been listening to what the young people want, and will be using the Focus on Me student voice going forward. The young people will be getting themselves involved in glowsports and horse riding!
· Trained 100 sports leaders, teachers and teaching staff in Prenton High School, Clare Mount Sports College, Ridgeway High School, Birkenhead Prep School, South Wirral High School and Weatherhead High School in England Boccia Skills Award with employability skills
· Trained 175 training teachers and primary school teachers on how to be more inclusive when teaching PE and Sport
· Trained 32 Active Age Leaders from South Wirral High School and Clare Mount Sports College
· Having now gained important skills from the training, the young people will be working with older people in the community using the power of sport and physical activity to bring the generations together
Schools, local authorities, care organisations and the Department for Education are watching this project closely across the UK!
· Worked closely with our ‘soft federation’ partner school Orrets Meadow Primary to develop autism resources and outstanding ideas for young people with autism in PE in primary schools
· Worked with 13 training secondary PE teachers to create and deliver an Inclusive Tag Rugby Festival at Clare Mount’s Sport Premium partner school Holy Spirit Primary for 60 young people
· Worked with the LTA Foundation to offer 26 young people from Clare Mount Sports College the chance to access personal growth and life skills though the ‘Beyond the Baseline’ programme
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Boreatton Park Residential 2019
Fri 29 Mar 2019In March Year 8 went on a three day residential trip to Boreatton Park in Shropshire.
During the three days the children had the opportunity to take part in some fantastic activities including: high wires, quad biking, raft building, fencing, archery a zip line.
The ten staff who accompanied the children thoroughly enjoyed watching them take part in adventurous activities and challenging themselves to face their fears and try new things.
The children shared bedrooms with their friends and we all slept in a log cabin near the woods. Highlights of the trip included toasting marshmallows around the campfire, dancing in the disco and also the raft race that everybody took part in, even some staff!
The children’s behaviour was excellent and Mrs Mault was extremely proud of her year group. Well done to everybody who attended!
Mrs Mault
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Parents complete Youth Connect 5 course
Fri 29 Mar 2019This term a small group of parents have completed a training course, called Youth Connect 5, delivered by the Clare Mount Wellbeing Support team .
The course is completed in 10 hours spread, over 5 weeks and each of the parents who have completed the course have found it very helpful. The course covers topics such as mental health, coping with stress, understanding adolescent brain development, resolving conflict, building resilience, dealing with adversity and developing positive strategies for communication. If you would like more information, or to join us on a future course in the summer term ,then please contact school and ask for Mrs McCannon.
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6th Form update
Fri 29 Mar 2019The focus in Sixth Form this half term is world of work. We have been completing our ASDAN Work Awareness module and had a visitor in to the Sixth Form Centre. Roberta came in to tell us about the 350 jobs in the NHS—we tried on stethoscopes too! Miss Vicars’s form group went on a visit to the hairdressers; Mrs McLeod's form group went to LIDL; and Mrs Cooper-Shone has taken students on 5 College trips! Tina from mencap came in too. The expressive arts group have decorated stones for the outside of the centre and the gardening group have planted daffodils to pretty the place up! The peer mentors made clay vases and we took a train trip. The enterprise group are making some crafts for Easter too. We also visited the HIVE again for Leisure. All in all we have had a pretty busy term!!
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Travel and Tourism group take a trip to Chester
Fri 29 Mar 2019Year 10 students have been looking at UK Travel Destinations including seaside resorts, places of historical interest and national parks. We chose to visit Chester to see what it has to offer to visitors as a tourist destination. We identified key tourist sites including the Castle, Amphitheatre and the Roman Gardens. We also walked the city walls, watched the Roman Dewa Experience in action and visited the Storyhouse. Students called at the Chester Visitor Centre to collect leaflets and information to help them to produce a PowerPoint on Chester as a tourist resort.
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GCSE Geography travel to Dorset
Fri 29 Mar 201918 Year 10 and 11 GCSE geography pupils had a fantastic time on there Geography fieldwork trip to sunny Dorset. The pupils looked at coastal features including the spectacular Durdle Door and looked at the impact of tourism in Weymouth and Lyme Regis. They stayed at a PGL centre and had enjoyed activities including orienteering and rifle shooting. On the Mon we went fossil hunting and had lots of great finds including 150million year old ammonites !
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Clare Mount goes 'Beyond the Baseline'
Wed 27 Mar 2019Beyond the Baseline is a life skills through tennis project funded by The Tennis Foundation and offered to schools by The Youth Sport Trust. In this short film, our Beyond the Baseline mentor Rio 2016 Paralympian and world class GB wheelchair tennis player Antony Cotterill, talks to our post-16 students about the skills needed for employment.
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Lewis experiences Liverpool Legends
Sat 23 Mar 2019Lewis was the lucky recipient of 2 free tickets to watch the Liverpool FC Legends v Milan Glorie game in Anfield on Saturday. Lewis was rewarded for his consistent hard work, manners and always getting things right in school.
Luckily for Lewis, Liverpool were the winning side in a thrilling 3-2 win, with Steven Gerrard scoring the winning goal. Lewis loved the game and has a match programme and scarf to remind him of this brilliant experience. Well done Lewis.Mr Gavin
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Science week 'Eco brick' Challenge
Fri 15 Mar 2019Each form was set the challenge to make an eco-brick. This is something you might like to try at home. For further instructions and information please visit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQYsXxHKgMk to find out how to make an eco-brick and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbPt1Jn3YLw to find out about international projects. Any completed eco-bricks can be brought into school and we will send them on.
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British Science week at Clare Mount
Fri 15 Mar 2019The week beginning 11th March saw, once again, Science lessons being taken over by British Science Week. This meant lots of fun mixed in with learning.
On Thursday evening we welcomed families of Year 7&8 students as well as some of our future students to have a taste of science activities we do at Clare Mount. Everyone had a good time.
Year 7 investigated custard and fake snow; both non- Newtonian fluids.
Year 8 successfully (in most cases!) completed a ‘mars lander’ challenge.
Year 9 did the ever popular bouncy ball and elephants toothpaste experiments.
Year 10 made a soft cheese, nylon and extracted DNA from kiwi fruit.
