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Activities Week 2016 Structures and Interpretation This is the fourth year we have run Activities Week and this year we had a focus on Structures and Interpretation. Departments across the school worked hard to create amazing opportunities for our students in years 7-10 and year 12 to grow and develop through innovative projects and learning opportunities from creating beautiful butterfly sculptures inspired by nature, a production in a day through a media and performing arts project entitled, “Fluid Borders” to building Norman castles, entrepreneurial challenges, investigating crystal formation and exploring the structures and cells in dissection lessons. The week challenged the students to think in a different way and undertake new learning through fantastic opportunities, including for the first year, 500 + students venturing out to learn away from the classroom. These included visits to explore local historical venues and venture further into London to complete various maths and geography based challenges. Here are some of the activities listed below: • Art in Maths • Microscopic • Buildings • Natural History Museum • Crystals • Pompeii • Trip to the South Coast • Sculptures • An Enterprising • Day • September • London Structures Challenge • Sports Day • Medieval • Theme Park • Mega Structures • Trafalgar Square • Purifying Water • Transport • Web • Harry Potter Trip On Friday 8th July 2016, students in years 7-10 concluded the week with their Dream Rewards Day with many off-site adventures. Activities Week 2016 has opened up new opportunities and exciting challenges and like the previous years, has given the students and staff at Cranford the opportunity to work together to achieve some amazing outcomes and a great week had by all. Kevin Biggs (Senior Teacher Activities Week Organiser) 24
The Science Department chose to run a variety of practical workshops for activities week. One workshop was mega structures. Students were given the opportunity to develop their engineering skills. They researched different bridge structures, the importance of bridges and what happens when engineers get it wrong. They divided into teams and competed to design and build the best bridge that was able to carry the heaviest load. The second workshop was focused upon water purification and how different techniques are used, what hazards there are and what the processes are that water goes through to make it safe for human consumption. The third workshop focused upon dissection and students got the opportunity to exam the eye and heart through dissection. Kirsty Foale (Science Department) “Today we learnt about bridges and how they help us in our daily lives. We designed some bridges and created our own. The best part of the day was when we created and tested our bridges. Overall, we learnt the importance of bridges and we learnt how to build bridge models (like engineers do)”. Simleen Shdana (year 8) “It was an amazing day. We learnt the basic hazard symbols first which made us all feel safe. We then went on to the fun bit. There were 5 stations with different experiments. Our group was split into 5 different groups, so we all got to know new people. After learning all the safety aspects and doing all the experiments we all were confident on how to purify water. For our last lesson, we were put to the test. For our last task was to purify swamp water. We only had a tray of equipment to use. At the end of the day we tested all the filters that all the groups had made. All groups managed to make filters and were able to understand why they had added that to their filter. We still weren’t able to drink the water as it was not fully disinfected even though it was clear”. “As someone who is extremely interested in science, I chose purifying water with high hopes and expectations, which were met rapidly. The whole day consisted of intriguing practicals that we otherwise would not have had the opportunity to do. Being one of the few older students, it was almost like my responsibility to watch over and work with a group of younger budding scientists in years 7 and 8. We created water filters out of limited resources and learned about hard and soft water. We got to work with fascinating chemicals and even got to look at the prep room’s still (where water is distilled). Overall, the day was definitely one of the best in the week”. Megha Dahdrai (year 10) Devi Matharu (year 9) An Enterprising Day KS-3 & 4 25
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