Cranleigh Futures ensures every student leaves school with a clear understanding of their unique strengths, the confidence to shape their own future, and the skills to thrive. Embedded throughout the curriculum and grounded in real-world experience, Futures acts as a guiding thread across school life—developing adaptability, resilience, and entrepreneurial thinking.
3-5-10 Philosophy
The Futures journey begins at Cranleigh Prep and evolves throughout a pupil’s education. From the outset, pupils are encouraged to reflect on how the choices they make now might influence their lives in 3, 5, or 10 years. The structured Futures curriculum blends taught lessons, independent projects, and curated experiences, ensuring pupils not only gain knowledge but also grow personally and make informed decisions about their future.
CRAN Skills
The future workforce demands agility, creativity, and confidence. At Cranleigh, we focus on ten essential transferable skills, woven into daily school life so they become second nature. Tutor teams and house staff support and monitor each student’s development, enabling them to recognise these skills and apply them with confidence in real-world contexts.
- Digital Literacy and Tech Savviness
- Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
- Adaptability, Resilience and Risk Taking
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Collaboration and Teamwork
- Leadership and People Management
- Independence and Accountability
- Communication Skills
- Financial Literacy
Careers and Employability
The modern workplace is dynamic, and a single “career for life” is no longer the norm. Cranleigh Futures widens horizons, helping students build the mindset and practical skills to navigate change and seize opportunities.
Our employability programme includes work experience, mock assessment centres, interview coaching, and networking workshops. By the time they leave, students have a professional portfolio, a LinkedIn profile, and valuable employment and volunteering experiences. They also benefit from the lifelong support of the Old Cranleighan Society, whose mentoring, networking events, and talks provide vital professional connections.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Alan Kay
Cranleigh encourages students to step beyond their comfort zones, embrace challenge, and develop the resilience that drives lifelong growth. Central to this ethos is the Futures Curriculum’s emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship.
The highlight of this programme is the annual Lower Sixth Cran.Do Challenge, where teams receive seed funding to design, market, and launch a profitable business addressing a genuine need. This flagship competition ignites entrepreneurial thinking and sharpens a wide range of transferable skills.
Younger pupils engage with industry briefs set by corporate partners, while the Entrepreneurship Speaker Series brings industry leaders to Cranleigh to share first-hand insights into enterprise and innovation.
Personalised Pathways
Every Cranleighan is unique—and so are their ambitions. Futures provides bespoke guidance across a wide range of pathways, including UCAS, Oxbridge, international university applications, degree apprenticeships, start-ups, and gap years.
From the end of the Lower Fifth (Year 10), students are coached to explore their options and make choices that align with their aspirations. Personalised one-to-one support increases throughout the Sixth Form, ensuring that academic and co-curricular decisions open the very best opportunities for each individual.
Cranleigh Network
The Cranleigh Network is a ‘careers for life’ programme that is a joint initiative between the School and the Old Cranleighan Society. The Network is intended as a genuine support organisation for all former pupils. The Network offers help with work placements, CV design and post-graduate employment to potential career change initiatives later in life.
