Cranford Review 2018
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 It is a wonderful read and a useful historical document which, with its termly sister publications and occasional special editions, also serves to describe the values of the academy and support the aspirations of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It is a wonderful read and a useful historical document which, with its termly sister publications and occasional special editions, also serves to describe the values of the academy and support the aspirations of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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Inked Dreams is an anthology of new writing<br />
by the First Story students at <strong>Cranford</strong><br />
Community College who took part<br />
in creative-writing workshops led<br />
by writer-in-residence Ross Raisin.<br />
First Story believes there is dignity<br />
and power in every person’s story,<br />
and here you’ll find young people<br />
expressing themselves in their<br />
own unique voices. We hope<br />
you enjoy this collection.<br />
Featuring writing by:<br />
Ahoura Bakhtiari<br />
Akashdeep Kundal<br />
Ayisha Mahmood • Chloe Mills<br />
Cristiana Eftenoiu<br />
Huzayma Khamis<br />
Jaineet Gulabzada<br />
Maeve D’Souza • Mahira Butt<br />
Manjot Bains • Namra Ansar<br />
Nurah Mahamud • Sabrina Akter<br />
Sankavi Sivaharan<br />
Sanskriti Doerga Tanaja<br />
Suman Kaur Tonaja • Syed Jaffery<br />
Warda Khalif • Zena Rehman<br />
<strong>Cranford</strong> Community College Inked Dreams<br />
First Story <strong>2018</strong><br />
Launch Event.<br />
Celebrating<br />
10 Years<br />
Changing lives through writing<br />
'First Story is a very exciting idea –<br />
writing can liberate and strengthen<br />
young people’s sense of themselves<br />
as almost nothing else can.'<br />
PHILIP PULLMAN<br />
Author of His Dark Materials<br />
Front cover design by Nizelle Soares<br />
Back cover design by Hamdan Khanzada<br />
Typesetting by Avon DataSet Ltd<br />
This<br />
FIRST STORY<br />
www.firststory.co.uk £10.00<br />
year, at <strong>Cranford</strong> Community<br />
College, we are celebrating 10<br />
years of First Story. This was the place where<br />
it all started: the creative juices of our students<br />
were finally given a national outlet and were to be<br />
rewarded with publications of their ideas. This is a<br />
tradition that we at <strong>Cranford</strong> Community College<br />
are proud to have continued for a decade and will<br />
endeavour to continue in the future.<br />
The cohort for this year was made up of year 12<br />
and year 10 students – all of whom brought their<br />
own personalities to the sessions and to their<br />
writing. Every year we, as staff, hope that the<br />
anthology produced by the students will be less<br />
macabre and less dark than the previous year…<br />
however, this year was no different. The pieces<br />
produced by these ingenious and creative minds<br />
were still just as gloomy and just as eloquent as<br />
they have been in the past. You can read some<br />
snippets of what they have written here.<br />
An Anthology by the First Story Group at<br />
<strong>Cranford</strong> Community College<br />
Edited and Introduced by Ross Raisin<br />
Story, we produced a montage video of student<br />
readings from previous anthologies which was<br />
shared with parents, staff and the young writers<br />
at the sophisticated launch event. The talented<br />
young writers had the opportunity to share their<br />
writing with all in the audience and were given<br />
certificates to celebrate and commemorate their<br />
amazing achievement. To complete the event and<br />
to uphold the sentiments of what First Story is and<br />
the talents of our school, we had two performances<br />
in which three year 8 students shared their<br />
originally-written and composed songs. It was<br />
truly mesmerising to witness the talent that the<br />
students of <strong>Cranford</strong> Community College have.<br />
Thank you to all students, staff and parents who<br />
helped to mark this special event. And a special<br />
thank you to Ross Raisin for continuing to be an<br />
inspiration to our young writers.<br />
Sahrish Shaikh (First Story Lead Teacher)<br />
24<br />
The cover design for this year’s anthology was<br />
also created by our artists in this year’s W-factor<br />
sessions. All the young writers gave as a prompt<br />
was the title: ‘Inked Dreams’ and voilà. An amazing<br />
design came into existence. Ross Raisin (the<br />
writer-in-residence at <strong>Cranford</strong>) and myself were<br />
thoroughly impressed and excited by this – it just<br />
goes to show how much talent our students have<br />
and that we should continue to nurture, support<br />
and share their talent with the wider community.<br />
To celebrate this year’s anthology ‘Inked Dreams’<br />
and our long-standing friendship with First<br />
“The evening was a great opportunity to showcase<br />
our hard work over this year. Additionally, it also<br />
gave us a chance to read each other’s work and<br />
knowing the stories behind their words helped us to<br />
realise the true value of writing”.<br />
Ayisha Mahmood 10Z<br />
“First story was a wonderful exciting experience,<br />
a way to express our feelings and emotions through<br />
creativity. Writing my own anthology feels like an<br />
amazing accomplishment and we were all able to<br />
present how we truly feel in our writing”.<br />
Chloe Mills (year 10)
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