Sport
All children take part in Physical Education Lessons. Infants have two one hour PE lessons a week. The Juniors also have two hours with the opportunity to get involved in a further twp hours extra curricular activity.Through its involvement in Sportslink, the school also has the benefit of an extra half an hour physical activity per week for all pupils in yrs.1 to 6 delivered by a qualified coach.
The school has the use of the excellent facilities at the Liverpool John Moores University including playing fields, gymnasium, sports hall, Astroturf and 25m swimming pool. It is also planned to make use of the facilities of Calderstones Park.
Junior classes have swimming lessons and children are prepared for various Swimming Awards under the supervision of the fully qualified swimming teachers and coaches.
Carleton House is affiliated to all the local schools' sporting associations and a wide variety of games are played in the school and at inter-school level including: football, cricket, netball, rounders, swimming, athletics and cross-country.
In Years 5 and 6 students are given the opportunity to have taster sessions in sports such as fencing and to undertake cycling training.
New sports are being introduced all the time to the extra curricular activities e.g. golf, tag rugby and High Fives Netball.
Recent successes have been:
- Merseyside Youth Games 2008 - Carleton won the swimming
- Runner up ESFA Six-a-Side National Football 2007
