LATEST NEWS
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New Faces for the New Year
Over the last half year there has been quite a flux in the Cranedale tutors. We
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Unexpected availability in 2012
An excellent Spring w/e: 16th - 18th March 2012 has arisen unexpectedly. This is an ideal time
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Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award
Residential Opportunity
Broaden your horizons;
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Puffin Coast Could Bring A Nest Egg As Tourists Splash Out
The Puffin is one of the world's most charismatic and favourite birds.
And
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Groundworks bonanza!
The excavation of wet feeding features for wading birds and structures to control ditch water levels
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The Yorkshire Museum of Farming
What will you discover?Come and see how the Museum is changing. With interactive
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Pickering residents urged to back flood campaign
FLOOD victims in Pickering and Sinnington are being urged by campaigner Howard Keal to take part
WELCOME TO THE CRANEDALE CENTRE -
SPECIALISTS IN FIELD STUDIES
The Cranedale Centre is a residential fieldstudies centre providing high quality, academic, fieldcourses for British and overseas students.
The Centre, established in 1983, has hosted fieldcourses for thousands of students since its inception and offers a comprehensive selection of courses in geography, ecology, geology, environmental studies and outdoor education for students of all ages. Academic fieldwork courses, following exam board specifications, are individually tailored for A2/AS/GCSE students and an exciting selection of environmental studies topics are also available for tailoring courses to KS2 requirements.
For more course information, please visit the Courses page.
For available course dates click here.
Cranedale Centre is an established leader in UK fieldwork offering its customers very high quality fieldcourses and facilities. Flexibility, superb organisation and attention to customer requirements are qualities which set the Cranedale Centre apart from others ‘in the field’ offering only fixed duration courses with standardised study programmes.
As part of our policy of continually monitoring and reviewing our performance we ask our customers to evaluate their courses. This is how visiting teachers rated the Centre in 2010.
| Tuition | 96.6% said very good or excellent |
| Course organisation | 97.5% said very good or excellent |
| Quality of food | 97.2% said very good or excellent |
| Fieldwork Safety | 99.2% said very good or excellent |
| Educational Benefit | 99.1% said very good or excellent |
| Value for money | 92.7% said very good or excellent |
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“ As always the Cranedale Centre has provided an excellent educational visit for the children. Because of this, we choose to bring our children here each year and know exactly what to expect.”
Christine Lampon.
The Elms Prep School -
Staff had excellent knowledge and good rapport with the students.
Gemma Pollard.
Bourne Grammar School -
Really excellent course covering all the sections of the specification requested. Students were encouraged to use and understand the "buzz words" needed for the specification.
Excellent delivery with enthusiastic tutors who made a real effort to learn the student names and answer any of their questions.
Bridget Bullivant.
The Mount School York -
“All staff very caring, the effort to learn children’s names is impressive and much appreciated. Another superb year spent with you”
Sarah Beach.
St Alban’s High School for Girls. -
The course does what we want - to a very good standard with excellent attention to detail. You provide a very high quality experiance for students and staff. Students loved being here. Staff had all the support materials required for a successful weekend. Your consistency in these things from year to year is appreciated.
Andy Day.
Withernsea High School -
Cranedale is exceedingly good in everything it does. We have experience of several other field centres and can assure you that you are in a league of your own.
Phil Kenny and Kevin Barber.
Heckmondwike Grammar
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