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 It is a wonderful read and a useful historical document which, with its termly sister publications and occasional special editions, also serves to describe the values of the academy and support the aspirations of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It is a wonderful read and a useful historical document which, with its termly sister publications and occasional special editions, also serves to describe the values of the academy and support the aspirations of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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Future Leaders<br />
Technology<br />
Programme for Girls<br />
In<br />
March <strong>2019</strong> Mr Watton<br />
told year 10 girls about<br />
an amazing opportunity that<br />
had come up for a week’s work<br />
experience at the end of May in<br />
Canary Wharf, working for one of<br />
the worlds top four accountancy<br />
firms, KPMG. There was only one<br />
catch, there was an application<br />
process which was very hard and<br />
we would be up against many other<br />
schools. The application process<br />
involved us having to come up<br />
with what we thought would be<br />
the next ‘big’ thing in technology<br />
– it really made us think. Once<br />
we had written about our ideas<br />
which ranged from electric cars<br />
to nano bots and health apps, we<br />
had to wait to know who had been<br />
successful. We knew that there<br />
were lots of other schools involved<br />
so the wait was tense. Eventually<br />
we heard that 5 girls had been<br />
chosen. We had our first meeting<br />
with the mentors on Friday 10th<br />
May <strong>2019</strong> and after the meeting<br />
we were more than ready for the<br />
placement to start.<br />
On the morning of Monday 20th<br />
May <strong>2019</strong> me, Zehra, Holly,<br />
Iman and Aliya met Mr Watton<br />
at Hounslow West station. One<br />
hour later we arrived in the<br />
amazing Canary Wharf, where we<br />
happened to meet Aadil Awan, our<br />
old Head Boy in the tube station<br />
(he is there doing a Higher Level<br />
Apprenticeship) who he took us<br />
to the huge and impressive KPMG<br />
building. We got our passes<br />
and then we were off.<br />
On the Monday we had an<br />
introductory session, where<br />
we met Anna Somaya and<br />
Nigel Slater (not the chef) in<br />
which we learnt how technology<br />
is influencing all fields of work<br />
and how broad the industry is. We<br />
had some hands on experience<br />
in AR and VR including using a<br />
VR headset. We also tried to find<br />
solutions to problems using tech by<br />
going to Canary Wharf shopping<br />
centre and looking around.<br />
On Tuesday we took part in a<br />
coding project (HTML coding)<br />
and also created a website about<br />
an influential woman in tech.<br />
This was taught by Laura from<br />
‘Taught by Humans’. Also, we<br />
had a graduate carousel where we<br />
met a range of people who joined<br />
through the graduate scheme.<br />
We don’t need to have a tech<br />
background in order to get a job<br />
in technology and that you should<br />
study whatever you want and<br />
enjoy to find a job that fits you<br />
rather than changing yourself to<br />
try and fit the criteria for what you<br />
believe to be a good job.<br />
On Wednesday, for the first half<br />
of the day, we stayed with our<br />
mentors. They gave us advice and<br />
help, and said that if we needed<br />
anything in the future they would<br />
be happy to help. In the afternoon,<br />
we met the CIOAs of the company<br />
and they did an activity with us, in<br />
which we had to solve the problem<br />
of plastic waste from coke. We<br />
then met two people from cyber<br />
security who talked about the<br />
different problems that can destroy<br />
infrastructure, systems and hurt<br />
the people who use them.<br />
On Thursday we attended an<br />
educational workshop in which<br />
we learnt about IT services.<br />
This consists of things such as<br />
networking, hardware and user<br />
interface. We learnt how data<br />
travels along a network and about<br />
different parts of a computer.<br />
We also got to dismantle one.<br />
Finally, we learnt about how<br />
KPMG is inclusive towards all<br />
employees including those with<br />
hearing and sight impairments<br />
and the technologies they use to<br />
help them. We also got to meet<br />
one of the managers from a<br />
team in IT design who taught us<br />
how different technologies are<br />
designed and made together in a<br />
team and can forever be improved.<br />
In the afternoon, we planned in<br />
groups our presentations on a<br />
technology we could design using<br />
new inventions that would help<br />
solve problems in specific sectors.<br />
On our final day we gave our<br />
presentations on how we would<br />
improve different sectors of<br />
British industry. They were a huge<br />
success. We then learnt about<br />
diversity in the workplace and how<br />
companies could become more<br />
inclusive of people from different<br />
backgrounds. At the end of the<br />
day, we received a talk on potential<br />
careers and routes at KPMG. We<br />
had an amazing time on our work<br />
placement. We learned so much<br />
and made such great contacts. We<br />
are really grateful to Mr Fraser<br />
and <strong>Cranford</strong> for giving us such a<br />
fantastic opportunity.<br />
Lerin Bajaj (year 10)<br />
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