We are delighted to be running our next Open Morning at Canford on Saturday 22nd April and look forward to welcoming families interested in both 13+/14+ and Sixth Form entry.
Theme Weeks
Each year Canford holds a Festival of Ideas, with the aim of encouraging all pupils and staff to share and discuss, to challenge and to listen based on a particular pertinent theme. We want all Canfordians to be curious in their learning, to embrace new ideas and develop the resilience to have such 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 2022
Changing People, Changing Places
Festival of Ideas 2021
The Individual in Society
Festival of Ideas 2019
Identity and Diversity
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.