Development Overview 2015-2020

  • Extended Co-educational Junior School SEPT 2016

    Extended Co-educational provision in the Junior School to the end of Key Stage 2 (ages 3-11). A new purpose-built Junior School offering a dynamic, fresh and spacious learning environment, with a new Junior Hall and classrooms.

  • State of the art STEM Centre SEPT 2018

    A new state of the art STEM Centre complementing the exciting STEM curriculum across the Senior and Junior School, offering a specialist MAC suite for design and computing and Junior, Senior and Sixth Form laboratories and workshops.

  • Creative and Performing Arts Faculty SEPT 2017

    Further refurbishment of the Creative and Performing Arts Faculty and Willow Theatre, offering exceptional acoustics, lighting and sound systems within a modern performance space. A new workshop space will also be created for the delivery of 3D design.

  • Sixth Form SEPT 2020

    A new Sixth Form added to our supportive, ambitious and successful all-girls Senior School. A purpose-built modern Sixth Form Centre with bespoke common rooms, lecture theatre, study rooms and learning resource centre.

Building on Success

I am delighted to be able to share with you our vision for an exciting period of building on success here at Cranford House.

With a strong heritage of 85 years of educational excellence, Cranford has a growing reputation as one of the UK’s leading small independent schools. We are proud to offer our pupils a modern education based firmly on traditional values and this forms the foundation of our Strategic Plan. Cranford House offers an innovative, opportunity-rich education within a welcoming and nurturing community, which draws out the natural potential of each child. 

At the heart of this is our commitment to ensuring that our pupils are happy, confident and motivated and that their self-belief, characterised by curiosity, resilience and a spirit of collaboration, inspires them to achieve at each stage of their individual learning journey. Cranford House pupils make excellent progress within a broad and challenging curriculum framework. This framework encompasses the traditional and the innovative, prioritises opportunities for enrichment and independent enquiry and establishes an enduring ethos for learning.

We are hugely excited by the future enhancements to Cranford House which will ensure that we continue to provide our pupils with an excellent education, fit not just for today, but also for the future.

We look forward to sharing this journey with you.

Dr James Raymond

Headmaster, Cranford House School

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Vision, Values & Mission

With a strong heritage of 85 years of educational excellence, Cranford House has a growing reputation as one of the UK’s leading small independent schools. We are proud to offer our pupils a modern education based firmly on traditional values and this forms the foundation of our Strategic Plan.

Our Vision

To ensure our pupils are happy, confident and motivated and that their self-belief, characterised by curiosity, resilience and a spirit of collaboration, inspires them to achieve at each stage of their individual learning journey.

To maintain our pupils’ excellent progress within a broad and challenging curriculum framework, which encompasses the traditional and the innovative, while establishing an enduring ethos for learning.

To equip our pupils for the challenges and opportunities of the modern world through an exciting programme of capital development and state of the art facilities.

To place Cranford House’s growing offer of a modern education, fit for the 21st century but based firmly on traditional values, at the heart of all our strategic planning.

To provide an innovative, opportunity-rich education, within a welcoming and nurturing community, which draws out the natural potential of each child.

Our Values

We have 5 core values which underpin everything we provide throughout the school. These values are:

Happiness

Confidence

Motivation

Challenge

Generosity of Spirit

Our Mission

“Per salicem ad alta”, our Latin motto, translating as “through the willow to the heights” uses our willow tree, sitting at the heart of the school site, to symbolise what a Cranford education is all about. It reflects our mission to motivate pupils to achieve in all aspects of their education with the happiness and confidence to challenge themselves and to dare to simply have a go!

Sixth Form

Strategic Plan

The many recent successes across the school, set against a backdrop of 85 years of educational excellence, provide the perfect platform for our new Strategic Plan.

A new purpose-built Sixth Form Centre (Pictured above)

A new and purpose-built Junior School

A new state of the art STEM Centre

Site Plan

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As we embark on our 85th year of educating boys at Cranford, we are delighted to announce that we are extending our outstanding (ISI, Nov 2014) co-educational provision to the end of Key Stage 2 (ages 3-11).

Our Junior School provides a firm foundation for each child’s education within a happy, friendly and supportive environment.

The new and purpose built Junior School will include:

  • Modern, spacious classrooms
  • A bespoke Junior Laboratory
  • A new Junior Hall and IT resources

Our modern, innovative curriculum will continue to be delivered in a stimulating environment, designed to inspire a love of learning, spirit of enquiry and sense of curiosity, where individuals are valued and successes are joyfully celebrated.

The Junior School will continue to ensure:

  • Excellent academic attainment through individual attention and challenge
  • Specialist Sports coaching for the major sports
  • Specialist Foreign Language and Music teaching
  • Excellent preparation for the transition to Senior School

As a cross-curricular discipline which encompasses Science, Design Technology, Mathematics and Computing, STEM encourages our pupils to understand the practical application of the subjects they study in school in a real world context. Our innovative STEM curriculum provides pupils with the opportunity to explore the ‘how’ and the ‘why’ behind every day experiences. Our new state of the art STEM Centre will offer an integrated approach to learning, providing exciting and flexible new facilities:

  • Specialist MAC Suite for design and computing
  • Sixth Form, Senior and Junior lab spaces and workshops

Excellence within both the Creative and Performing Arts sits firmly at the heart of a Cranford House education. We are committed to encouraging both excellence and inclusivity across the Performing Arts and developing, in all our pupils, the self-confidence to express themselves creatively through Music, Drama, Art, Textiles and Design.

We are therefore delighted to announce the exciting refurbishment of our Performing Arts faculty to generate a contemporary performance space which will include:

  • New workshop space for delivery of 3D design
  • Willow Theatre refurbishment offering new acoustics, lighting and sound systems

We are thrilled to announce the forthcoming launch of Cranford House Sixth Form. Cranford’s Sixth Form will build on the strong foundations of academic excellence at GCSE, offering a bespoke education tailored to the individual with a broad and varied Sixth Form curriculum and delivered in a new purpose-built Sixth Form Centre.

  • A newly-built Sixth Form Centre offering a modern setting for studies, including common room, lecture theatre, study rooms, classrooms and learning resource centre
  • A broad core curriculum alongside exciting opportunities for academic enrichment, including the Extended Project Qualification and Open University Modules
  • A rich and varied extra-curricular provision, including the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme, Sixth Form Sport and Music, Business Internships and Leadership Programme
  • Outstanding pastoral care focused on the needs of the individual, including a 1:1 tutorial system
  • Bespoke UCAS and Careers support

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