Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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A special night for our rugby fans - young and not so young!
Sun 29 Jan 2023On Friday 27th January a squad of Clare Mount's rugby fanatics - students and staff - set sail (pun intended) to watch some Gallagher Premiership Rugby Union at Sale Sharks. The home side were entertaining Bath in front of a crowd of 10,000!
Our intrepid squad arrived in the early evening to be met by members of the Sale Sharks Foundation coaching team and after a trip to the food vans and the club shop we were treated to a coaching clinic before entering the stadium to watch the game.
The privileges didn't stop there, though. Our students formed a guard of honour for the teams prior to kick off and two of the squad - Lewis and Skye - were selected to run out with the Sale team - an unforgettable experience!
At half time, we left our seats once again - this time to play touch rugby on the pitch in front of the massive crowd.
As if that wasn't enough excitement, Bath then treated us all to a heroic comeback (training 22-3 at half time) and, leading as the game went into overtime, they were denied an unlikely victory by a heroic try, which vindicated Mr Keefe's tricky decision to stay until the end rather than beat the traffic!!!
A truly memorable night was summed up by Aaron on the way home: "I want to be a professional rugby player when I'm older"
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Snow and Ice doesn't stop the Clare Mount Cricket Crew
Wed 18 Jan 2023Cricket Club continued today, as always and there was no "Ice stopped play" to be seen thanks to our excellent MUGA provision. We were joined by Mr Heaton as he has begun to work with the group as well. It is great to see such a mix of youngsters and we can truly represent the school from Year 7 to Year 11 now, with our fantastic indoor facilities at the new Clare Mount site to look forward to.
Our next tournament is on 7th February at the new Clare Mount site, as Cheshire host a number of schools in a cricket skills festival. Here are some of today's images
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Clare Mount's African Adventure 2024
Fri 13 Jan 2023This year the teachers at Clare Mount Specialist Sports College have teamed up with African Adventures, to offer a once in a lifetime experience for our pupils.
African Adventures is an award-winning travel company that has been organising life-changing trips for young people in the UK since 2009. The mission of this company is to change lives through volunteering. Many UK secondary schools have been on volunteering expeditions to Africa, to offer life-changing experiences for their pupils.
African Adventures are thrilled to collaborate with Clare Mount Specialist Sports College, as we will be their first ever special school to take part.
On 3rd February 2024, Clare Mount Specialist Sports College are taking 15 pupils, on an eight-night expedition to Kenya, to volunteer in a Kenyan school. During this time, the pupils and staff will be hard at work, volunteering to teach their pupils, build a new classroom and deliver sports activities to the new friends they will have made.
All of the missions are designed to contribute to long-term, sustainable development projects in East Africa. As you can imagine this is an expensive excursion, but the staff at Clare Mount Specialist Sports College are dedicated to fundraising for this event, to keep the cost as low as possible, so it is inclusive to all pupils who are invited.
The cost per pupil is £2,000, therefore the fundraising target is £30,000. African Adventures is a non-profit organisation and so all money raised will go towards supporting the Kenyan school. Our mission is to deliver an outstanding volunteering project, that will benefit pupils from Clare Mount Specialist Sports College and also pupils in our partnered Kenyan school. Our vision is to use the power of ethical and responsible volunteering to change lives of young people in the UK and in Africa.
At Clare Mount Specialist Sports College, pupils understand how lucky they are to have the right to an outstanding education, but sadly this is not the case for many other children around the world. In Kenya, 45% of people live below the poverty line. Kenya is home to one of the biggest slums in the world and the area we will visit in Kenya is home to approximately 2.5 million people who live in over 200 settlement slums. The settlement is overcrowded and underserviced. Most families living there are packed into windowless, one-room 12ft x 12ft shacks, with mud walls, a corrugated tin roof and a dirt or concrete floor, accommodating up to eight people or more with many sleeping on the floor. We will be visiting these areas and delivering clothes, food and money to support as many families as we can. For children in this area, the biggest hope is to attend school. Many children cannot afford an education, so we are going to work with a community-run school which offers children a better future.
If you are able to sponsor Clare Mount Specialist Sports College, no matter how big or small your donation, the pupils and staff would be extremely grateful for your tremendously kind generosity. Please know that you will be making a huge difference to the lives of disadvantaged children and families in Kenya, whilst also providing Clare Mount pupils with a life-changing volunteering opportunity, to collaborate and share a unique global educational experience.
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/africanadventure2024?invite=true
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New Year New Challenges for our Work Experience Team!
Thu 12 Jan 20236th Form Work Experience is back up and running for 2023. The staff at Woodchurch Farm gave us animal care tasks. One team cleaned the sheep and Alpaca paddocks. Another team changed the water and hay for the rabbits.
In the afternoon at Tam O'Shanter's, we were busy with raking straw from beds ready for vegetables to be planted.
We have also been given a plot to develop however we wish!
Staff have asked us to include a bug hotel and herb garden.
They are also building bird boxes ready for us to decorate!
Great team work all round!
