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Activities Week 2015 14 Week beginning Monday 13th July 2015, Cranford transformed itself into a Sherlock Holmes type investigation as the school collapsed its usual timetable and embarked on our annual Activities Week. Students developed new knowledge and investigative skills in different subjects in order to explore an imaginary murder mystery and solve the crime. The week provided an exciting chance for students to forge links between subjects and explore careers linked to the theme. The rich learning experience saw students work in five main areas; Under the Microscope, Crime Scheme Investigation, Code Breaker, The Mystery of Harris Burdick and Agent Training. Under the Microscope Students worked with mixed media in the ADT department and developed and ‘explored’ pieces of art work. Students took microscopic images and enlarged them to create pieces of art based on cells and viruses. Crime Scheme Investigation Working with science and humanities students spent time exploring a crime scene and using scientific investigation to explore evidence and solve a given crime. Once the evidence had been collected they used this to find further evidence around the school site. Students then presented their findings at a panel hearing and discussed who was responsible. Code Breaker The ICT, Business Studies and Social Science Departments provided students with the chance to explore the world of surveillance where students had to work with imaginary CCTV footage to discover through an imaginary scenario who had broken into the school. Once the footage had been analysed students looked into using computing software to crack the code and gain further digital evidence to find the culprit. This was followed by a number of debates and discussions about the use of eye witness accounts and living in a surveillance society. The Mystery of Harris Burdick The Mystery of Harris Burdick provided the next challenge based in intrigue and fantasy to explore different mysteries and as a stimulus to create their own mysteries. The responses ranged from dance routines, drama and board games to pieces of creative writing, poetry and song. The creative output was amazing as students independently selected their own medium of response; this work was created with the English and Performing Arts Departments. Agent Training During this day students were set the challenge of becoming agent ready. The day was split into four main areas to ensure they were ready for the challenge of the week. Activities included archery and caving which tested their accuracy, dexterity and focus. Students then moved on to develop their problem solving and powers of logic with the maths and PE department working on tackling different challenges and completing “escape the room” style trials. Finally they finished the day testing the linguistic skills with the Modern World Languages team where they had to complete ‘the 39 steps’ a series of coded messages which had to be decoded and translated in order to find secret locations around the school. Throughout the week students and staff were allowed to wear non–uniform to raise money for our two nominated charities The Terrence Higgins Trust and the National Aids Trust. We raised a grand total of £1126.96. The week concluded with our DREAMS rewards day where students enjoyed a day of visits, trips and sporting activities and year 12 held a pizza party in the Memorial Garden with our guests from Korea, to round off a very successful week and celebrate the end of another amazing year at Cranford. Kevin Biggs (Senior Teacher Activities week Organiser)
“Collecting evidence was fun because we were independently working.”. Kinza David (year 10) “Code breaking is particularly interesting because it challenged me to be mathematical and logical”. Ismaeel Abdul (year 7) “It was interesting learning about the World War II code breaking and how it influenced computer theory”. Frank Smith (year 7) “Caving was something different; you have to overcome challenges like being in the dark and getting through small gaps”. Brendan Fernandez (year 9) “Archery was good because I was taught how to aim and hit the bullseye”. Alex Lamb (year 10) “We did an MI6 test to see how observant we were, we had to learn a cover story and pretend we were someone else, it was different, fun and challenging”. Arjun Bansal (year 9) 15
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