The final week of term saw the Foundation Year participating in a three-day cross-curricular project – effectively a very big game of Cluedo based around a ‘murder’ in the Sixth Form Longy!
They have been busy interrogating Mrs Swart, processing a crime scene, analysing wine, DNA, fingerprints and footprints, drawing photofits, profiling criminals, taking witness statements in various languages, writing tabloid articles, solving puzzles, analysing clues, designing CCTV towers with straws and ping-pong balls, digging up a skeleton, crime mapping (guess which house is the crime capital of Malvern College…?), challenging the sniffer dogs and cross-examining witnesses in the dock.
A huge thank you to the variety of outside speakers who came in to lead the sessions with an insight into their professional lives, to inspire the pupils with where the subjects they study in school can take them in life. These included a forensic scientist, a forensic linguist, criminologists, journalists, lawyers, police trainers, and sniffer dog handlers.
The project culminated in each group of four creating a display in Big School, with a prize awarded to the group judged ‘the most likely to solve a crime’. All the groups did manage to work out ‘whodunnit’, alongside gaining a real insight into the range of professions available in policing and criminology.