Cranford Review 2015
The “Cranford Review” © is a publication of Cranford Community College. Is an annual high standard produced magazine which provides an archive document highlighting various aspects of the life of the academy, its staff, students and community from each academic year. It is a wonderful read and a useful historical document which, with its termly sister publications and occasional special editions, also serves to describe the values of the academy and support the aspirations of the academy, its staff, students and wider community. A colorful layout with a wide range of topics comprising events, extracurricular activities, recognition awards, initiatives, trips and excursions among many others. Hard copies are provided to stakeholders including families, staff, partners, visitors, prospective parents/students, prospective employees and others with an interest or stake in the academy and its students. Headteacher & Director: Kevin Prunty / Editor-in-chief: Jessica Joyce / Graphic Design: Enzo Gianvittorio Danese (Enzo GD) / Printed by: Springfieldpapers.com
The “Cranford Review” © is a publication of Cranford Community College. Is an annual high standard produced magazine which provides an archive document highlighting various aspects of the life of the academy, its staff, students and community from each academic year.
It is a wonderful read and a useful historical document which, with its termly sister publications and occasional special editions, also serves to describe the values of the academy and support the aspirations of the academy, its staff, students and wider community. A colorful layout with a wide range of topics comprising events, extracurricular activities, recognition awards, initiatives, trips and excursions among many others. Hard copies are provided to stakeholders including families, staff, partners, visitors, prospective parents/students, prospective employees and others with an interest or stake in the academy and its students.
Headteacher & Director: Kevin Prunty / Editor-in-chief: Jessica Joyce / Graphic Design: Enzo Gianvittorio Danese (Enzo GD) / Printed by: Springfieldpapers.com
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Activities<br />
Week<br />
<strong>2015</strong><br />
14<br />
Week<br />
beginning Monday 13th July <strong>2015</strong>,<br />
<strong>Cranford</strong> transformed itself into<br />
a Sherlock Holmes type investigation as the school<br />
collapsed its usual timetable and embarked on our<br />
annual Activities Week. Students developed new<br />
knowledge and investigative skills in different subjects<br />
in order to explore an imaginary murder mystery<br />
and solve the crime. The week provided an exciting<br />
chance for students to forge links between subjects and<br />
explore careers linked to the theme. The rich learning<br />
experience saw students work in five main areas;<br />
Under the Microscope, Crime Scheme Investigation,<br />
Code Breaker, The Mystery of Harris Burdick and<br />
Agent Training.<br />
Under the Microscope<br />
Students worked with mixed media in the ADT<br />
department and developed and ‘explored’ pieces of art<br />
work. Students took microscopic images and enlarged<br />
them to create pieces of art based on cells and viruses.<br />
Crime Scheme Investigation<br />
Working with science and humanities students spent<br />
time exploring a crime scene and using scientific<br />
investigation to explore evidence and solve a given<br />
crime. Once the evidence had been collected they<br />
used this to find further evidence around the school<br />
site. Students then presented their findings at a panel<br />
hearing and discussed who was responsible.<br />
Code Breaker<br />
The ICT, Business Studies and Social Science<br />
Departments provided students with the chance to<br />
explore the world of surveillance where students had<br />
to work with imaginary CCTV footage to discover<br />
through an imaginary scenario who had broken into the<br />
school. Once the footage had been analysed students<br />
looked into using computing software to crack the<br />
code and gain further digital evidence to find the<br />
culprit. This was followed by a number of debates<br />
and discussions about the use of eye witness accounts<br />
and living in a surveillance society.<br />
The Mystery of Harris Burdick<br />
The Mystery of Harris Burdick provided the next<br />
challenge based in intrigue and fantasy to explore<br />
different mysteries and as a stimulus to create their own<br />
mysteries. The responses ranged from dance routines,<br />
drama and board games to pieces of creative writing,<br />
poetry and song. The creative output was amazing as<br />
students independently selected their own medium of<br />
response; this work was created with the English and<br />
Performing Arts Departments.<br />
Agent Training<br />
During this day students were set the challenge of<br />
becoming agent ready. The day was split into four<br />
main areas to ensure they were ready for the challenge<br />
of the week. Activities included archery and caving<br />
which tested their accuracy, dexterity and focus.<br />
Students then moved on to develop their problem<br />
solving and powers of logic with the maths and PE<br />
department working on tackling different challenges<br />
and completing “escape the room” style trials. Finally<br />
they finished the day testing the linguistic skills with<br />
the Modern World Languages team where they had<br />
to complete ‘the 39 steps’ a series of coded messages<br />
which had to be decoded and translated in order to find<br />
secret locations around the school.<br />
Throughout the week students and staff were allowed<br />
to wear non–uniform to raise money for our two<br />
nominated charities The Terrence Higgins Trust and<br />
the National Aids Trust. We raised a grand total of<br />
£1126.96.<br />
The week concluded with our DREAMS rewards<br />
day where students enjoyed a day of visits, trips and<br />
sporting activities and year 12 held a pizza party in<br />
the Memorial Garden with our guests from Korea, to<br />
round off a very successful week and celebrate the end<br />
of another amazing year at <strong>Cranford</strong>.<br />
Kevin Biggs<br />
(Senior Teacher Activities week Organiser)