“Junior school pupils display an excellent attitude towards learning. They respond well to the motivation of their teachers to ‘be their best self at all times’. They enjoy learning and are equally productive whether working independently or collaboratively, at home or in school.”
Mr Rob Morris, Deputy Headteacher and Head of the Junior School
Academic Outcomes
The Junior School provides an enhanced Primary curriculum, utilising the resources, facilities and expertise of our Senior School, all within with small nurturing classes. This allows us to provide learning opportunities beyond that of your usual primary school - with specialist teachers and resources in music, science, creative arts, computing, PE and drama.
A Cransley Education from Reception to Year 11
Our unique nature as a 'through school' has allowed us to consider the exact intent of our curriculum to ensure optimum impact on our pupils and improve GCSE outcomes. This 'spiral' curriculum has been developed by collaboration between junior and senior specialists to ensure key skills, knowledge and themes are revisited throughout a Cransley School pupil's learning journey whilst continuing to recognise the National Curriculum and exam board specifications.
We therefore ensure a seamless transition - academic, pastoral and physical - from our Junior School into our Senior School, maintaining continuous progress and wellbeing at an exciting time of their lives.
Financial assistance and bursaries are available.
Priority consideration will be given to pupils from the Junior School for entry to the Senior School. Limited places are available for external Senior School entry. Early application is encouraged.
noticing and Nurturing
Our small class sizes allow for a personal approach by experienced professionals, ensuring a high rate of progress for all abilities, with guided academic rigour, self-challenge and the creative thrills of research, collaboration and play.
We provide an enhanced national curriculum, utilising the resources, facilities and expertise of our Senior School, allowing us to provide learning opportunities beyond that of primary schools - in music, science, creative arts, computing, PE and drama.
Provision and Participation
With resources that are developing quickly, we offer an extensive curricular extra-curricular programme over a range of sporting activities across different age groups from 4 to 16, including athletics, football, rugby, netball, rounders, rowing (indoor and outdoor), gymnastics, judo, fencing, dance, tennis, cross-country, table-tennis, swimming, cycling and chess.
All children are taught by specialist PE teachers from EYFS through to year 11 and, with this, comes an exceptional rate of participation and progress, with individual fitness programmes available on request from pupils and families alike.
On every stage
Our strength and innovation comes in our brave approach in facilitating and enabling the natural dramatic creativity of our pupils, and a resulting ownership, passion and remarkable talent in our few students that is tough to beat.
We are determined to offer new genres and designs of performance, to provide new skills, new challenges, new experiences for both performer and audience.
They are inspired and motivated to take part in theatre that is fit for the modern age, where their own ideas and interests lead performances, on a range of ‘stages’, which uses the technology of the day, and that results in performances from EYFS to GCSE that are relevant and fresh.