18 Sixth Form students, plus Miss Sturdee, Miss Gibson, and Mr and Mrs Griffiths are all counting down the hours…
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Zambia Trips News
Day 1/2: Travel and Arrival
Muli shani Cranleigh! After a restless flight, we were more than ready to embark on our adventure across Zambia from…
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Day 3 – Church
After the exhaustions of the day before and a great night’s sleep we all woke up raring to go. The…
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Day 4 – Interviews with the Kawama school children
The time was 6am, Zambia was the place. After being released from our slumber we were herded into a bus…
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Day 5 – The first working day
Given the strenuous task of interviewing over 300 children the day before, the Zambia team expected a somewhat less tiring…
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Day 6 – Rain at last
Once again the early start appeared to have taken its toll upon the team. However, the prospect of returning to…
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Day 7 – Independence Day
After a sleepless night, owing to the torrential rain, we made our way to the school blurry eyed. However, the…
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Day 8 – Final day at Kawama
With another early start we headed to the school with high spirits for the last time. Our tasks for the…
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Live Below the Line Day 2013
Thursday 28th November saw Cranleigh School recognising how many people in the world live below the poverty line, below $1…
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OCs Go Back To Zambia
Two recent OCs, Alex Foster and Charlie La Fosse, are currently spending three months of their Gap Year working in…
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Beyond Cranleigh: Summer 2014
Shortly after the end of the Summer Term, 18 Sixth Form students and 5 staff (including one from Cranleigh Prep…
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July 2014 Workshops
A big well done to everyone, the workshops were a great success in terms of creative output and of course…
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July 2014 – The first few days
Kasanka After a delayed flight and twenty-seven hours of travelling, we journeyed half way to Kasanka and camped in tranquil…
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Wednesday 9th July
After the shock of the previous day’s exploits, similar to that of the the Brazilians, the day began in a more…
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Thursday, 10th July
Our 3rd day at Kawama 25 degrees at 8am in the morning, after a late night watching the football semi-final,…
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Friday, 11th July – Our final day
Our final day at Kawama Our final day at Kawama School was an emotional end to what has been a…
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Full Steam Ahead for October 2014 Trip
A 19-strong team of U6th students, plus the 5 members of staff accompanying them, have been beavering away to prepare…
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Leg 1: From Kasanka to Kitwe
On Wednesday 15th October a group of 19 students and 5 staff set off from Cranleigh to Zambia for 10…
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Interview Day at Kawama
After an eventful night of no electricity, we were woken up at 6:30 by Miss Sturdee’s ever optimistic voice. We…
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Tuesday at Kawama School
Last night was a night of thought and reflection. We were split into smaller groups to mull over the experience…
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Wednesday – Teaching at Kawama School
The Cranleigh team were put through their paces today – a day which has proved to be the toughest to…
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Thursday at Kawama – Day 2 of teaching
Today was our second day of teaching the students from reception to grade 6. In the morning the babies learnt…
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Focus on Charity
A small group of sixth formers was invited recently by Beyond Ourselves to travel to St. Joseph’s in the Park Primary School in…
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Cathy Goes Beyond Herself
OC Cathy Hobbs (West 2014) set out on a nine day cycle ride from Carlisle to Cranleigh last week to…
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Follow Beyond Cranleigh on Instagram
We have setup a dedicated Instagram account to document and share our experiences with our partner School in Kitwe, Zambia…
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From Heathrow to Nsobe, to Ndola: 20-23 October 2015
We set off on Tuesday afternoon with lots of anticipation and excitement. After surviving 3 flights, several hours waiting and…
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24 October 2015: Independence Day
We left The Castle Lodge at 8.30 to travel to Kitwe where we were to be based for the rest…
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25 October 2015: Church Service and Clothes Sale
We left the Town House Lodge at 9 and travelled to Kawama for a Sunday Church service where we sung…
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26 October 2015: Interview Day
We spent the day interviewing most of the pupils at Kawama School. Mr Reader measured their height and weight to…
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27 October 2015: Work Experience and Teaching
We arrived at the school at 9am and immediately started our respective tasks for the day. This was the first…
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28 October 2015: Teaching and Home Visits
Another great day and no one can believe that tomorrow is our last day at the school. The highlight of…
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Countdown to Kawama!
It’s 4 days to go until a team of 19 Sixth Form students, accompanied by Miss Sturdee, Mrs Bukowska, Mr…
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Zambia – Phase 1
Following our 24 hour trip to Zambia we were warmly welcomed by Renwick and his iconic “Pentecostal bus of holiness”.…
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First teaching day at Kawama
Today was the first day of teaching the children at Kawama School. We received the same highly enthusiastic, warm welcome…
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Team-building & Football at Kawama
After another early start, and a cracking full English brekkie, Renwick and his “banter bus” shuttled us off to Kawama…
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Going deeper into Kawama: Home visits & work experience
On Saturday morning, we got on the bus with Renwick to head to Kawama School, where we split into our…
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Sunday: Church & a Clothes Sale
With a 30 minute lie in we were ready for the day ahead. After our full English breakfast we headed…
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Final day at Kawama
Today was another early start for our last day at Kawama School. Half of the group was left to go…
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October Trip 2016 – the story so far
FOR MORE REGULAR UPDATES FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM AT beyond_cranleigh Nsobe Game Park After a tiring 23 hours of travelling,…
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Tuesday, 25th October
Kawama Day 4 The day commenced with an eye-watering 6:30 am start. The agenda for the day consisted of interviewing…
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Wednesday, 26th October
Kawama – Day 5 The day began with our usual early start. After a quick briefing from Mr Barker, we…
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Friday, 27th October
Kawama – Day 6 After another early start, we arrived for our final day at Kawama, feeling tired from the…
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29th March 2017
Kawama Day 1 Greetings from Zambia! After a long and tiring journey from Cranleigh, we arrived safely at Nsobe where…
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30th March 2017
Kawama Day 2 – This morning, we arrived at Kawama by 9am, and the children were already there, showing how…
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31st March 2017
Kawama Day 3 – The timetable of activities to enable us to experience what life is like in the greater…
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1st April 2017
Day 4 in Kitwe – As today was a Saturday, it meant that we didn’t go to Kawama Community School. Instead…
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2nd April 2017
Kawama Day 6 – We had a later start to the day and had breakfast at 8:00 am rather than…
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Zambian Celebration
Sixteen Lower Sixth pupils and four staff members will travel to our partner school in Kitwe, Zambia during the half-term…
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Zambia Trip
During October half term, our team of 18 students and four teachers visited Zambia. This trip was all about taking…
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Beyond Ourselves: Then and now
A lot has changed at Kawama Community School since the beginning of Cranleigh’s partnership with Beyond Ourselves. In 2010, the…
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