Cranford Review 2013

WFactor has been running on a Wednesday
afternoon for two years and it still continues
to grow with over 52 different activities on offer,
providing staff and students with a great opportunity
to learn new skills and experience some amazing
enrichment activities. In addition we now have a
significant number of outside agencies working
alongside our staff providing some exciting new
experiences for our students. We have great plans to
extend this further for 2013-2014.
All the World
Theatre Project
“The day we performed was an
excellent experience and one I
have never done before and It will
be one of my best memories”.
Klodjano Klydie Koxha (year 8)
“We had a lifetime experience by doing
proper drama with professional people. I
really enjoyed it because it was fun and I
liked it because I got a chance to perform in
two things in school and in the theatre”.
Mohammed Qureshi (year 8)
“2013, we performed at the Paul Robeson
Theatre at the Treaty Centre in Hounslow.
This was the second experience for me at the
theatre but was my first experience to perform
there. After the performance I lost my fear of
performing and talking in crowds”.
During summer 2013, students worked with members of Bounce
Theatre to devise a piece of drama inspired by the Festival theme
‘All the World’. Students explored themes as broad as evolution,
technological advances and inspirational figures. They discussed
about the world in our local community, the value of multi-culturalism
and friendship.
This culminated in a piece of physical theatre which began with
Newton and the apple, merged into Apple technology and the images
of the global inspirations that we can now see at the press of a button.
The students used Mo Farah as a figure to celebrate local inspirations
such as our grandparents, family, female role models and friends.
The piece was performed twice representing the school at the Paul
Robeson Theatre as part of Bounce Theatre’s ‘Home-grown and
Handmade in Hounslow’. This celebration, involved over 500 people
from 15 different schools.
The students worked with the company director Louise Pendry who
said ‘I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the students, their
originality and creativity led us to make a really beautiful piece of
work. My colleagues at the theatre were all impressed with how
professionally they conducted themselves.’
By Kumail Abbas (year 8)
“Louise Pendry made all of this happen as
she helped us put all of our pieces of drama
together. She gave us confidence to perform
in front of 200 people at the Paul Robeson
Theatre and at school. I actually haven’t
done anything on a proper stage before.
I’ve only preformed in my primary school”.
Lucy Cook. (year7)
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