Cranford Review 2018

Duke of Edinburgh Award
Expedition July 2018
Another
year and another Duke of Edinburgh
Award Expedition ventured out
in July 2018 with more students than ever: 60 silver award
students from year 10 and 22 bronze award students from year
9. We braved the wilds (and heat) of the South Downs over two
consecutive weekends. Students performed amazingly on their
assessed expedition successfully navigating each day into camp
and preparing a cooked meal on their stoves, they continued to
show off their exceptional camp craft skills and were a credit
to Cranford Community College as several other campers on
the site commented on how well behaved they were.
Spirits were high as was the temperature which set
its own challenge both on the practice and assessed
expedition. Students took on board feedback from the
practice expedition and showed a massive improvement on
the assessed weekend in their navigation skills and resilience,
taking on the challenge of finding their way and rerouting
themselves when losing their way.
The staff supporting the expedition did exceptionally well at
motivating and challenging students to achieve a successful
outcome on both the practice and assessed expedition. This is a good reminder to all
of the time, commitment and energy they have put into support students beyond the
conventional curriculum. A massive thank you from all the students on expedition
and me to Mr Venancio Ferreira, Ms Lodge, Mr Sohi, Ms Shaikh, Mr Barrett, Mr
Southern-Myers, Mr Guyett, Mr Bussue, Ms Ridgeon, Ms Ledlie and to Ms Prunty, Ms Brown and
Ms Gladysz for supporting the logistical and administration side of the expedition.
Kevin Biggs (Assistant Headteacher – Duke of Edinburgh Lead)
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