Welcome to Clarendon Infant School

Always A Little Further

At Clarendon Infant School, we believe that every child matters. We also believe it is vitally important to provide a broad, balanced and exciting curriculum which will equip our children to be lifelong learners in the 21st century. We want to raise attainment and foster the pleasure of discovering and the joy of learning. We know our children achieve best when they are motivated, excited and supported.

Our planned curriculum fosters discovery and creativity enabling children to explore their own ideas as well as using investigative skills to learn more about the world in which we live. In order to promote deeper learning and confidence in applying skills across subject areas, we have formed strong and relevant curriculum links and allow time for teachers and children to explore these to the full. We want to ensure that our children understand the notion of citizenship and develop tolerance and respect for people within our school and in the wider community. We plan our personal, social and health education programmes of study to foster these aims.

Many of our children have parents who are part of, or who serve, the military community and we feel it is important to foster a pride in the important service our parents provide and to enable our children to experience the specialness associated with living within this community. We understand the vulnerability of our children due to their parents’ frequent postings and resultant school changes. We are very conscious of the need for us to induct our children thoroughly, assess them accurately and quickly and to help them make progress without delay because our opportunities to make a difference may well be short.

We are committed to providing the best quality learning experiences we can for all our children regardless of gender, race or religion.

Mrs L Ashford-Smith
Head of School