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Activities Week 2014 WW1 Centenary “Lest We Forget” Monday 14th – Friday 18th July 2014 was our annual activities week and this year our focus was the World War 1 Centenary. Students in years 7- 10 learnt about the war and related topics through a three day carousel of projects in creative and performing arts, history, science and art, followed by their DREAM rewards day on the Thursday and we finished the week with our whole school end of year assembly. To mark the centenary and Cranford’s activities programme, the Art, Design and Technology Department with the year 12 ADT students, created a set of light reflective acrylic poppies which were laid out in the Memorial Garden depicting the war dates 1914-1918. At the centre of each poppy is a solar light which when dark, brings the centenary dates to life. As a mark of respect for our own students, friends and colleagues who have died, we have engraved the names of all those we have lost on the leaves of the poppies and these will remain as a feature in the Memorial Garden. The school environment was transformed to reflect the week. Bunting, propaganda, recruitment posters and banners created a corridor of information to set the scene as students came into school with the school bell being replaced by WW1 songs from original recordings to welcome them in. The conservation area hosted a pop-up museum of artefacts and memorabilia and we built a trench with a recording of sounds from the trenches for students to understand and appreciate what it would have been like to be there. The school caterers turned the dining hall into a wartime food kitchen and produced a menu of foods served during the war including, fish pie, potato cakes, fish sausages and trench cake. The History Department taught the important historical aspects looking at various key topics including; why it happened, propaganda and recruitment, the role of women and the Christmas Day Truce. The Science Department focussed on topics which included the importance of Morse code, First Aid and the creation of the Zeppelin; students got to experiment and make their own versions of each. In addition they created a massive assault course which tested the students’ stamina, agility and ability to work as a team in WW1 scenarios. Students selected which area of the creative and performing arts they wanted to work in and spent time either writing amazing, moving poetry and letters from the trenches or writing and performing their own original war songs whilst in drama they created beautiful and moving physical theatre pieces and freeze frames to depict the stories of the individuals and their families in war. The Art Department led four awesome and beautiful mural projects, one by each year group. These are now proudly exhibited at the top of each stairwell in A Block as a visual reminder of a time 100 years ago which shaped our lives for ever. On Wednesday afternoon twenty students from year 10 accompanied by Ms Lowden and Mr Clifford were selected to attend a creative writing seminar at the prestigious British Library in London which included access to original poetry writings of our famous WW1 poets. This was quite an experience for all concerned and produced some amazing reflective writing by our students. Two outside companies supported the week; Gaia Technologies ran a 3D Trench experience and each year group attended a thought-provoking performance by Quantum Theatre Company entitled “Your Country Needs You” which included, letters, poetry, songs and music from the era performed in front of a screen projection of original footage and historical evidence. Year 12 students followed a similar programme with a focus on how modern film and media represent the war, the lead-up to the war and a letter to an unknown soldier. The Monopoly Challenge began their week, followed by time to work on their UCAS application and personal statement, some sports and enrichment opportunities and a Personal Development Day. As in previous years’ students and staff were allowed to wear non-uniform and all the money raised was donated to our chosen charity, ‘Help for Heroes’. Cranford Community College once again proved its generosity and raised over £1200 for a very good and relevant cause. The whole week was a huge success. Everyone enjoyed working together and clearly learned a great deal about WW1, why it is so important and why today we still remember those who paid the ultimate price with their lives… “Lest we forget”. 34 Jessica Joyce (Event organiser)
“Assault Course – we got an idea of how people in the war felt”. Serena Lola (year 7) “It was very adventurous, very creative and a great experience”. Parneet Kaur (year 7) “The theatre performance was very informative”. Huzayma Khamis (year 8) “Morse code – fun to make the words”. Rohit Bhuller (year 7) “3D video – really understood how they felt and trying to put us in their shoes”. Aisha Jeffaari (year 9) “I liked creative writing because I like writing, and enjoyed writing about WW1”. Dameen Ali (year 9) “Art – I enjoyed making the poppies”. Kemmar Fray (year 7) “Writing the letter to the Unknown Soldier was interesting, stimulating and thought-provoking”. Harprit Birk (year 12) 35
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