Huge congratulations to Lower Sixth Canfordian Mimi who has been placed second in the Girton College, University of Cambridge Humanities Writing Competition 2022.
Theme Weeks
I hope all Canfordians will approach this year’s festival with the curiosity to embrace new ideas, the enthusiasm to share and discuss these ideas with their friends and teachers and the resilience to have their ideas challenged in turn. We live in increasingly complex and turbulent times. The modern world is continuously asking new questions of the individual in society. The answers to these questions will not come from closed minded or tribal thinking. The answers will come from listening to and learning from a genuinely diverse range of perspectives. Maybe, just maybe, the seeds of the ideas that will change the world tomorrow will be sown over the course of the next few days.
Jamie Ings, Head of Enrichment
Learning is multi-faceted and for it to have real meaning and to be truly enduring we must reflect whenever we can on how our own learning is intertwined through countless different experiences and contexts throughout our lives.
Ben Vessey
Explore
Festival of Ideas 2021
The Individual in Society
Festival of Ideas 2019
Identity and Diversity
A Festival of Ideas 2018
The world of work for present and future
Fifth Form Post GCSE cultural programme
In addition to these annual weeks, each summer the Fifth Form take part in a Post GCSE cultural programme designed to immerse them in the culture and history of our country beyond the constraints of their exam preparation. Pupils visit local and national museums, theatres and other places of cultural interest on a particular theme, and present their findings to their peers in an event in the Layard Theatre at the end of the summer term.