Objective
The development of the Cransley Science and Technology centre promotes and fulfils the aims of Cransley School to provide its pupils with essential and relevant skills to succeed professionally and personally.
GOALS
The School-led project, inspired by the vision of the northern industrial powerhouse, acknowledges the growing manufacturing and technology industries of Warrington and the local area. It reflects the growing social group of management professionals, business people and highly skilled employees and their own aspirations for their children. The project recognises the social need to provide boys and particularly girls from 4-16, from Cransley and from local primary schools, with the necessary skills to apply themselves — creatively, personally and academically — to a task, to provide tangible outcomes to their objectives and the confidence and self presentation to continue that drive into the wider world.
The Biology Laboratory
SOLUTION
The project is the development of a new innovative, flexible and facilitating building, incorporating three new Science laboratories, a Design and Technology room (now complete) and a Food and Nutrition kitchen (scheduled for September 2024) equipped with enabling design equipment and technological resources. These are innovative learning spaces which will provide the necessary environment for excellent independent learning, research, skills acquisition and development in line with the school’s aims and mission statement.
The School also hopes to develop an engineering and mechanics garage to the creation and maintenance of racing karts in the coming years to encourage girls and boys into engineering and motorsport.
The development of the School Science Laboratories is driven not only by the School’s academic requirements, but by the requirements of local industries, and the input from their employees. To this end the school has gained the support from STEM based companies and attracted the financial sponsorship and creative input from The Baker Foundation, and from Prological Ltd, a highly regarded local Environment Engineering company.
The project aims to promote Cransley School and the brand as being a highly sought after centre of excellence within the local independent sector, with a degree of accessibility and opportunity unavailable in local over-populated maintained primary and high schools, through small class sizes, teaching expertise and individual pupil development.
A substantial donation from The Moulding Foundation will enable the final phase of the development of the facility, and enable access by several local primary schools, allowing a range of pupils access to excellent enabling resources, enhancing and developing their learning experience.
The Moulding Foundation and Cransley School form a partnership to enable disadvantaged pupils and local schools in the community to achieve their full potential through the development of enabling facilities.
With considerable thanks for the generosity of The Baker Family Charitable Trust.
