Cranford Review 2016

Yet
again, this has been a very impressive
year for Cranford Community
College on so many fronts,
including a further 7% rise in students gaining ‘5+A*-
C including English and Maths and with the school’s
results significantly bucking the national decrease in
outcomes. Cranford’s GCSE headline figures are even
further above the national benchmarks and Cranford is
now at the top of the rankings locally, outperforming
all but two other schools.
The progress that the students have made is also
significantly above the progress for pupils across the
country and above the average locally. This means that
students at Cranford Community College continue to
achieve stunning results in every respect, year on year,
and the school remains strongly outstanding.
Cranford has a plethora of outstanding subject areas
and this is headlined by impressive academic outcomes
in ALL the core subjects, Mathematics, English and
the sciences (Physics, Biology and Chemistry). Our
sixth form has also been able to offer experience of
working in hospitals and clinics in India for those most
interested in pursuing a career in medicine, dentistry
or pharmacy as well as some students attending the
International Space Camp in the USA.
Our A level students were no exception with superb
outcomes. Needless to say, the track record of Cranford
students going on to the best universities continues,
with this summer seeing our students secure places at
the top Russell Group universities including Imperial
College, Kings College London, University College
London and Durham University. 99% of our sixth form
students progress to university.
Cranford has continued to achieve a number of awards
for excellent achievement including becoming one of
the first schools in the UK to be awarded ‘World Class
School’ status.
As a leading Teaching School, we have the highest
quality of professional development for teachers at all
levels so that Cranford is able to ensure high quality
and up to date teaching and expertise.
Our partnership work with Berkeley Primary continues
to flourish and Berkeley was cited in HMI’s annual
report to Parliament for the extraordinary journey of
improvement made which was also led by Cranford.
Numerous high profile visitors have come to Cranford
this year and met with our students and perhaps the most
high profile event involved a delegation of Cranford
students meeting and shaking hands with President
Obama when he visited the UK in 2016.
Cranford hosts the Hounslow Young Citizens scheme
where most primary schools in the borough attended
a training event at the school designed to raise pupil
awareness of risk and their ability to make the right
choices in a range of different situations.
I remain immensely proud of the amazing achievements
of our students and the many successes of Cranford.
The school continues to go from strength to strength and
I am delighted to remain so deeply involved with this
school and the community. The stories and photographs
in this brochure give an authentic flavour of just some
of the huge range of opportunities available at Cranford.
Kevin Prunty
(Executive Headteacher, National Leader of Education)
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