ICC In The Community
ICC has good working connections with the local primary schools. We regularly have visits from primary schools working in connection with our students in PE or through Design Technology and the STEM project.
Students within the school community are offered a variety of educational and oversea trips such as attending the theatre or going further a field to Battlefields. These trips are part of their curriculum, we also offer extra curricular activities to enrich their learning experience, from cartoon drawings, ICT to PE sports fixtures.
Our Choir with the Chagnossian Drummers have good community links with the local area and perform each year at Care homes, Gatwick Airport, occasionally Crawley Hospital. Our choir performed on pop icon Rihanna’s song Towards the Sun which was the soundtrack to Dreamworks movie Home.
Students’ art work is on display in the community throughout the year at the at the Hawth and a selection of art displayed at Langley Corner Doctors Surgery, the art is frequently updated with new material.
Every year students participate in our annual sponsored roundtrip walk known as the Sarah Robinson Commemorative Walk from the College to Tilgate Park to raise funds for local charities.
Community Garden
The ICC Community garden is now up and running thanks to donations from Tesco ‘Bags for help’ ,BAM and several companies located in West Sussex.
You may have seen the Community garden taking shape located on the left grass verge as you arrive in to the school grounds. Staff and helpers begun work over the May school holiday digging, building and erecting several vegetable and flowers beds.
The community garden is to be planted, maintained and sustained by staff and students within the school community. Students will have the opportunity to gain experience of growing food to eat, along with studying the variable nature of plants.
New to the garden are benches where staff and students are able to find a little peace and quiet.
Fundraising / Charities
At Ifield Community College we feel strongly that supporting charities is an integral part of school life and that it is important for us all to think of those who are in need. We are determined to do our best in raising as many donations as possible knowing that they have a significant impact on the local community and society as a whole.
Students and staff at ICC are regularly involved in fundraising for various charities throughout the year. Our Student Council holds meetings with the school tutor representatives to think of innovative ideas about how to raise money for these events.
In the month of July 2016 we did our very first sponsored charity walk named ‘The Sarah Robinson Commemorative Walk’ to celebrate the 50th anniversary of when The Sarah Robinson School and Ifield Grammar School amalgamated. The whole school participated, we walked to Tilgate Park and back, a total of 8.3 miles/13.5k and 19,000 steps. The sponsored walk is an annual event that students take part in to help raise funds for local charities.
Fundraising / Charity News
Year 9 in Action: Fundraising for Free Shop Crawley
We have been blown away by the generosity of our school community. This term our visionary Year 9s have led an incredible whole school fundraising effort, encouraging tutor groups to donate essential items for The Free Shop Crawley. Thanks to their hard work, enthusiasm and leadership, today we collected almost 50 filled boxes from students and staff across the school! From powerful and eloquent assemblies, eye catching posters and constant encouragement, the year 9 charity team truly went above and [...]
Year 9 Students Step Up as Future Free Shop Ambassadors
Last week, students from the Year 9 Charity Team, alongside Miss Martin and Mrs Latham had the opportunity to visit The Free Shop Crawley as part of an exciting community fundraising trip. During this visit, the students began their training to become Free Shop Ambassadors! This role will continue throughout their time at ICC, giving them the chance to work closely with the charity and support a range of local community initiatives. The students’ feedback from the visit was fantastic! As [...]
ICC Donates Christmas Hampers to the Easter Team
On Friday 12th December ICC students presented the Easter Team with decorative festive food hampers. Students have been busy decorating boxes and collecting food items for the Christmas hampers to be donated to The Easter Team; a Crawley based Christian charity that helps people who need it the most in Crawley. Donations on the list included, mince pies, chocolate, biscuits, tins of ham, pots of jam, vegetables, fruit, gravy granules and packet stuffing, christmas puddings and toiletries. Congratulations to Sophie [...]
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at ICC
Celebrating Diversity, Equality and Inclusion. This half term, our focus on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) has continued to grow, with a number of exciting and meaningful events taking place. A highlight was our fourth annual Diversity Say, which brought the school community together in celebration and support of three incredible local charities: Refugees Welcome Crawley, Crawley LGBTQ+ , and Autism Support Crawley. Thanks to the generosity and enthusiasm of students and staff, we were able to raise funds and [...]
ICC Sarah Robinson Commemorative Sponsored Walk
On Thursday 4th July, all students in Years 7 to 10 took part in our annual sponsored walk, raising an incredible £4,356.91 for St. Catherine’s Hospice—a local cancer charity that holds a very special place in our hearts. Students walked an impressive 8 miles—equivalent to around 19,000 steps—between 8:30 am and 12:30 pm, showing outstanding commitment and energy throughout the event. The walk was supported by every member of staff and our fantastic Year 12 students, who were stationed along [...]
ICC Donate Christmas Hampers to the Easter Team
On Thursday 12th December ICC students presented the Easter Team with decorative festive food hampers. Students at ICC have been busy decorating boxes and collecting food items for the Christmas hampers to be donated to The Easter Team; a Crawley based Christian charity that helps people who need it the most in Crawley. Donations on the list included, mince pies, chocolate, biscuits, tins of ham, pots of jam, vegetables, fruit, gravy granules and packet stuffing. and Christmas puddings. Well done [...]
Sarah Robinson Commemorative Sponsored Walk
On Friday 5th July students and staff took part in the Sarah Robinson Sponsored Walk to raise funds for the local charity, Greenaway Foundation. Students and staff were in full spirit despite it being a very wet day! A nice early start to the day allowed students to have an early finish giving them a much deserved rest after walking an impressive 8.3 miles/13.5k and an amazing 19,000 steps to Tilgate Park and return to ICC. We would also like [...]
Red Nose Day – March 2024
Students and staff 'Do Something Funny for Money' on Friday 15th March to raise funds for Red Nose Day 2024. Students dressed in home clothes for the day and were surprised to arrive at school to see staff wearing ICC school uniform. How they enjoyed issuing C3 sanctions to staff for not following the correct uniform! Students spent the morning break and lunch raising funds on organised fund-raising stalls from guessing the pet to the teacher, plastic cup shooting challenge, [...]
Christmas Jumper day and End of Term
Students and staff wore festive jumpers to raise funds for the local charity, The Greenaway Foundation. Mr Corbett, Headteacher welcomed everyone to the end of term Christmas assembly. We heard how superb the school production of Alice in Wonderland was. The panto has gone from strength to strength each year. It is so wonderful to see so many of our students performing to such a consistently high standard. Mrs Murphy-Dunn spoke of the fantastic fund-raising our students have done for the various [...]
Sixth Students Raise Funds for Charity
On Wednesday 13th December, Sixth Form students organised a day of fundraising activities. Sixth form students got into the spirit of Christmas by organising fun activities throughout the day to raise funds for The Childrens' Trust Charity. The day started with Sixth Form taking part in a cyclathon from 8:30am to 3pm. Students and staff took turns at keeping the cycle continuous throughout the day. Students were able to purchase a selection of festive cakes made by the Sixth Form students in the cake [...]
