#LongRoadLife - Applicant Newsletter Edition 1

#LONGROADLIFE Long Road Sixth Form College Weekly Applicant Newsletter

KEEP IN TOUCH

SENDING VIRTUAL HUGS X Hello, from Long Road!

We're so sad to have to close our college doors last Friday, but our Long Road community hasn't disappeared - we've simply moved online.

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'Lockdown', 'self-isolation' 'COVID-19'... these are all topics that are dominating the news and social media. While the messages surrounding them are important

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(no seriously they are super-important, please wash your hands and stay inside!) we want to give you a bit of light relief from all the scary stuff going on out

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enquiries@longroad.ac.uk

there!

We're going to be sending you a weekly newsletter full of information about each of our amazing courses to keep you excited about joining us in

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September. Make sure you keep in touch and follow us on social media.

www.longroad.ac.uk Sending virtual hugs - Long Road x

APPLICATION UPDATE Important information from our Admissions Team Although our doors may be closed, we

If you haven't been scheduled for

are still here busily working to ensure

your Advice and Guidance

our Admissions process runs as

Interview:

smoothly as possible. How will this

Your interview will also take place

affect you?

via telephone.

Please keep checking your emails

If you have already been scheduled

for any updates on your account.

Do not come into college for your interview

All Advice and Guidance Interviews will now take place via telephone.

Check your emails regularly for communication from our

for your Advice and Guidance interview:

KEY MESSAGES TO APPLICANTS

Summer Work

Your interview will now be

To keep you motivated and excited

conducted via telephone.

about joining us in September, we are

The interviewer will contact you via

working our hardest to upload our

your student phone number at your

Summer Work 2020 on our website

scheduled date and time.

early - we're aiming to have this

You do not need to contact us to

available for you to download by May.

confirm your telephone interview.

Admissions Team

Summer Work 2020 will be available to download from our website by late May 2019.

Allow 4 weeks to receive your offer via your online account.

Do not come into college for your

Until then, if you're still looking for

interview.

something to keep you busy then take

Please allow 4 weeks to receive

a look st the Summer Work 2019 on our

your offer via your online account.

website www.longroad.ac.uk

Got a question?

Email our team on admissions@longroad.ac.uk

SIX TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL STUDYING AT HOME

STUDYING FROM HOME Advice from Long Road Alumni Angela

Studying and working from home, it's

If necessary have snacks and music

pretty strange for us all! Ex-student

that'll help you concentrate. For

Angela has been in touch with some

example, I like to listen to rap music,

helpful tips on successful studying at

but that doesn't help me when I try to

home!

study, so personally I have Lo-Fi study

Use your social support systems

Set up your study space

music in the background which is quite Angela is a first year student at the Keep your desk clean

Snack sensibly

calming.

University of Lincoln where she is studying a degree in Criminology. She

I also try to write a set list of tasks I

recently found herself in the same

need to complete and do a plan for

position as us, when she was told that

each one, and then gradually work

the University would close and all her

through them. That way the work I have

lectures would be moved online.

tends to feel less overwhelming and it's easy to see clearly what I need to do

Get a good nights

"My advice to students doing the same

and how I can do it. It's also important

as me is to make sure you have a study

to remember to give yourself breaks -

environment set. So rather than sitting

have some downtime to relax!"

sleep

on the couch and working try to have a Use your timetable

tidy desk in a quiet room - somewhere you can focus.

PET EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK Working from home with our fluffy friends

We're in our first week of self-isolation,

Meet this weeks Pet Employee of the

and already the novelty of working

Week, Henry...

PET EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK

Is your pet assisting you while you work at home?

from home is wearing off. However, not Whether they're helping you everyone is feeling down in the dumps

Henry is a soon to be 13 year old black

about being on lockdown. Our fluffy

Labrador (making him nearly 96 in

friends are loving the fact that we're

human years!) Henry is appreciating

working from home -and thy're doing a

the lockdown very much as he is

great job of cheering us up too!

getting extra belly rubs and treats. He

revise, or lazing on your laptop, we want to know!

Email your pet photos along with a short description including

is also enjoying his favourite foods To keep everyone smiling we will be

scrambled eggs, ham and roast

sharing a Pet Employee of the Week

dinners.

their name and age to

afutter@longroad.ac.uk.

We will be posting our winning Pet Employee of the Week every

every Friday on our Instagram page

Friday on our Instagram account

@lr6fc. Make sure you follow us to see

A big thank you to Megan Almond

the weekly winner and runners up!

(LSA) for introducing us to Henry, give him an extra belly rub from us!

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Spreading Insta likes and Insta love As well as sending you this applicant newsletter, we will also be spreading the love over on our Instagram account! We're going to be posting different activities on our Instagram for you to take part in. So take a break from studying, cure your lockdown bordem and follow us on Instagram

@lr6fc to get involved! We're all about fun and positivity, lifting everyones mood in a confusing and

worrying time - you can use the opposite page to reflect on things you are grateful for and start spreading that positivity.

But it's not all about us, we want to know what you're getting up to! Make sure you use our hashtag your posts and stories so that we can share you on our Instagram feed!

#LongRoadLife and tag us in

March 2020: Edition 1

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