Cranford Review 2019

Farewell
to
Year 11
On
Thursday 4th July 2019, year 11
celebrated their final days as GCSE
students in style with a wonderful evening event
followed by a glamorous and glitzy prom. Huge
numbers of parents and students came to receive
their Awards and were treated to excellent
entertainment courtesy of Odyssey, the Year
10 band, and Michael Nunez, who wowed the
audience with his incredible performance of “Let
Her Go “by Passenger.
As their Head of Year, it was my opportunity to
give students some sound advice as they venture
into the next stage of their education, as they
embark on their Post 16 studies at Cranford in
September. You can see some extracts below.
Following the school celebration the students
went to the Riverside for an excellent evening of
photos, dancing, eating and more photos. A great
time was had by all.
Aaron Sohi (Head of Year 11)
The
past 5 years have come and gone, it seems,
in the blink of an eye. The energetic,
eager and enthusiastic faces I saw before me have
melted away and been replaced by the serious faces of
young adults, eager to start making their own choices,
paths and, inevitably, mistakes. For now, you have a
hopefully relaxing summer ahead of you.
This is a day of celebration of your achievements,
and rightly so. Over the past 5 years you have worked
harder than any other group of students I have known.
From day one you approached your education with
the right attitude and I have no doubt that, on results
day, you will get the reward your hard work deserves.
Your success is not only a product of your own
endeavour. It has been the result of 16 years of
support, structure and sacrifice. Who you are and
what you achieve is the result of the sacrifices your
parents made; you may not see those sacrifices now,
but given time you will. The success you achieve is
how you thank them; the strength of character and
the positive traits and the morality you display is how
you thank them.
The learning community, the staff and students,
first at primary and then at secondary school, also
supported the achievement and success you will enjoy.
Please don’t forget what has been done to help you:
the teachers who gave up weekends, evenings and
holidays, to provide you with opportunities when they
didn’t have to, but wanted to; the people who gave up
a lunch time to help with a problem; the people who
made time to give you a smile, a supportive comment
or a helping hand when you needed it.
The world you are growing into has challenges but I
believe you will change it for the better so, if you might
permit me to give you what I hope is good advice:
1 – Be grateful for all the things you have had, have
and will have. Be grateful for the past 5 years, for
the past 5 months, even if they have been difficult at
times, because they have changed you, and grown you
for the better.
2 – Be brave. Take risks and do things that take you
out of you comfort zone; be the only fully grown adult
in the shallow end of the swimming pool, learning
to swim because you never knew how and, after all,
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