Cranford Review 2019
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 It is a wonderful read and a useful historical document which, with its termly sister publications and occasional special editions, also serves to describe the values of the academy and support the aspirations of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It is a wonderful read and a useful historical document which, with its termly sister publications and occasional special editions, also serves to describe the values of the academy and support the aspirations of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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<strong>2019</strong><br />
When<br />
I think of the<br />
First Story <strong>2019</strong><br />
cohort the first few words that come<br />
to mind are creativity, trust and most<br />
importantly, laughter. This was all<br />
present every Thursday after-school<br />
in A108 as a group of 14 budding<br />
writers – inspired by author Ross<br />
Raisin and each other – put pen to paper to create<br />
the wonderful ‘Word Runway’. It’s a title which<br />
connotes a sense of direction, a limitless future<br />
grounded in the foundations of what is important<br />
to us – our community and ultimately, this is what<br />
First Story became for all of us – a community. It<br />
was an opportunity to turn up to A108 and forget<br />
the challenges of the day. Lessons (both learnt<br />
and taught) which didn’t quite go to plan, PE kits<br />
forgotten and friends not quite getting on were<br />
all forgotten as soon as Ross was picked up from<br />
reception and the creative juices began to flow.<br />
All this hard work accumulated for the launch of<br />
the anthology at our <strong>2019</strong> First Story Launch Event<br />
on Wednesday 26th June <strong>2019</strong>. It was a lovely<br />
evening; attended by Executive Headteacher Kevin<br />
Prunty and staff, invited guests from First Story,<br />
parents, students and our visiting Shanghai student<br />
and teachers delegation all there to celebrate the<br />
wonderful achievements of this year’s cohort. We<br />
heard all the students read their pieces aloud, ate<br />
delicious snacks and wrote a collective ‘Mexican<br />
Wave’ poem – led by Ross Raisin, our resident<br />
writer – which definitely left everyone with a smile<br />
on their face. The evening was enjoyed thoroughly<br />
by all who attended.<br />
If you are in year 10 or year 12 and want to take<br />
part in next year’s First Story cohort – contact Miss<br />
McConville for more information.<br />
Aisling McConville (First Story Lead Teacher)<br />
I Come From<br />
I come from the dusty pink sky<br />
that stares at me while I sleep.<br />
I come from my wildest dreams<br />
that carry me to another world<br />
in my past, present and future.<br />
I come from kindness.<br />
I come from politeness.<br />
I come from happiness.<br />
I come from the ground that saw me fall<br />
and helped me up again,<br />
that taught me to walk,<br />
yet put so many barriers in my way.<br />
I come from my mistakes.<br />
Simran Sanghera (year 10)<br />
Corroding to Dust<br />
I stretch out, hoping to break free of my prison, my shackles; my roots<br />
dislocate, as I yearn to be free. I see the ravens in their flocks, yet I am forced<br />
to be grounded below the sky. What is my existence? What is my meaning?<br />
The clouds make a mockery of me, they are free from this life of chains. My<br />
only solemn wish is to be set free. If only I could grasp and hold on to my<br />
wish and make it a reality. But this battle that I face only has one conclusion:<br />
impossible.<br />
The sun comes and goes, like feelings of the heart. Stealing then evanescence.<br />
Life drenched from the sky, cosseting her in scars, tearing her up, never to<br />
be mended again. The stars cry as I watch them corrode to dust. The moon’s<br />
beam now extinguished, allowing crimson blood to overflow. Gunshots like<br />
lightning bolts strike my branches, tearing and slashing them.<br />
I can feel the ricochet of fallen planets as they pass into oblivion, for ever,<br />
ceasing to exist. If only I could run, fly, sink even, six feet under.<br />
4<br />
Shahneen Ramji (year 10)
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