Academic

As we prepare for the annual celebration of World Book Day, held on the first Thursday of March each year, we take a look back at the fun and interesting ways that pupils have entered the yearly extr…

This evening, Friday 15th March 2024, each house will go to John of Gaunts Kitchen to take part in the annual House Debating Competition. The use of John of Gaunts for debating continues a school tra…

Canford pupils were very fortunate to have had the schools first computer centre created in 1985! Whilst there are no records in the archive detailing the exact price that the school paid for the new…

PE at Canford looks a little different nowadays in comparison to 60 years ago… Here are a few great shots of whole school PT on and around the sunken lawn in 1961. I think it's safe to say that the v…

On Speech Day 1959, Lord Lyle and Sir Hugh Beaver formally opened two new blocks of Laboratories and Classrooms, which cost nearly £50,000 (nearly £1.5 million in today's money). These labs stand in …

As the Art Department is busy preparing its end of year exhibition of GCSE work and the A Level Summer Show, we take a look back at the Art Shows of years gone by. Back in the summer of 1952, the Art…