Claremont Senior School won the title of Independent School of the Year for Performing Arts 2021 at our Independent School of the Year awards 2021. Here’s how they came out on top out of over 700 entrants.
Established in 1925, Claremont first opened as a nursery, pre-prep and prep school, and 2011 saw the opening of its second site, Claremont Senior School, in the historic East Sussex village of Bodiam. The school runs as a co-educational day and boarding school for students aged 1-18.
Why Claremont Senior School Won Independent School of the Year for Performing Arts 2021
The work produced by the Performing Arts department at Claremont Senior School serves as a constant reminder that in the school’s short 10 year history, Student Voice, Leadership and Inclusion are firmly embedded into the school’s DNA. In an extraordinary year of change, they have continued to drive Claremont forward as a learning community. Happening upon an original idea by chance and running with it, rather than following a tried and tested ‘process’ in pursuit of one has empowered the young performing artists to think beyond themselves and follow creative paths of expression through Music, Dance and Drama that have, and continue to be quite transformative in terms of their educational and

emotional needs.
Full company, big budget theatre productions are inevitable crowds-pleasers, but as the role of the teaching team increasingly becomes a guiding and facilitat...