#LongRoadLife Applicant Newsletter - April Edition

APRIL EDITION: VOL. 4

#LongRoadLife LONG ROAD SIXTH FORM COLLEGE APPLICANT NEWSLETTER

SCIENCES, SPORT AND STUDENT SOCIETIES ADMISSIONS UPDATE Hello from Long Road!

HISTON FC TRIALS In this April edition of our applicant newsletter we are looking at the different student clubs and societies that you can get

MEET SCHOLAR

involved with at Long Road; including details of the upcoming

STUDENTS MAIA AND

Histon FC Scholarship trial session. With the Scholar Award

FINN

deadline looming, we'll be introducing you to two more of our current Scholar students.

GET INVOLVED WITH Focusing on our Science Department, taking a look at all of the

STUDENT CLUBS &

amazing experiments and activities that our Biologists,

SOCIETIES

Chemists, Physicists and Geographers have been taking part in.

If you're thinking about a career in Medicine then be sure to check out the information on our Med Squad!

Happy reading!

Long Road

MED SQUAD

SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

WE'RE HERE TO HELP

ADMISSIONS TEAM UPDATE

Our friendly Admissions Team are here to support and guide you through every stage of your Long Road application.

Thank you to everyone who

These Guidance Meetings will be

attended our February and March

held remotely via a video call

Advice and Guidance Meetings!

appointment.

We had a great time getting to know you and your families, we hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did.

If you have any questions, If you are yet to have your Advice

please get in touch!

and Guidance Meeting please don't panic. We have now sent

Heidi Hauser Director of Admissions

Please be sure to book your appointment at one of these dates and times as we cannot guarantee further meetings beyond these dates.

out emails with booking details for our final Advice and Guidance

If you have any difficulty with booking please contact our team.

Meeting slots to all those

Julianna Sosnowska Admissions Officer

applicants affected. Please be

Please be advised that the

sure to check your email including

meeting link will be sent to the

your junk/spam folders, for this

email address you use to book

information.

your appointment. If you require an additional attendee to attend

01223 63 1125

admissions@longroad.ac.uk

Meeting slots will be available to

from a different device then you

book throughout each day over

will be able to do this yourself by

the Easter Break, from 09:00am

following instructions found at the

until 16:30pm from 5th until 18th

bottom of this email.

April. We will also be offering twilight sessions from 19th April to 29th April between the hours of 16:30pm and 18:30pm.

YOUR APPLICATION TIMELINE Your application timeline will help you keep track of where you are in the admissions process and keep you informed of what happens next.

Look for the arrow location to see where we are in the process!

OCTOBER 2021

SPRING & SUMMER 2022

Applications Open

Guidance Meetings & Conditional Offer Discuss your options with an experienced member of staff. You'll receive a formal offer via your Long Road Online Services account shortly after your Guidance Meeting.

JANUARY 2022 Applications Close.

Applications made after the deadline may be placed on a waiting list

7 & 8 JULY 2022 Welcome Days & Summer Work Spend the day as a Long Road student; try out your subjects & get a taste of Long

AUGUST 2022 GCSE Results Day

Road life. Summer work will be available online & must be completed for your first lesson at college.

Good luck! We're keeping our fingers crossed for you

LATE AUGUST 2022 New Student Enrolment Welcome to the Long Road family!

EARLY SEPTEMBER 2022 Start of Academic Year 2022/2023 Time to start your Long Road life!

MEET SCHOLAR STUDENT, MAIA

MAIA Secondary School: Stour Valley Community

I chose to study at Long Road

My favourite thing about being a

after hearing many

Long Road student is the

recommendations. I think Long

independence, it is very different

Road is a good school to apply to

from secondary school in the

as it offers great opportunities

sense that you are treated as an

being in the centre of

equal. I also love the atmosphere

Cambridge.

here, everyone is super friendly and kind.

School

Year 2 Student

Studying: Biology A Level History A Level

I chose to apply for a scholars award as I thought it was an

My advice to year 1 students

opportunity I shouldn’t miss and

would be to enjoy it as much as

an asset to my future education.

possible, it will be over before you know it.

The scholars’ award is definitely worth applying for as it is a great

I have been working towards

asset to take with you into further

university by attending open days

education/careers.

and online webinars. Learning as

PE A Level

Progression Goals: Sport & Exercise Science Degree

much about each university as I have spent my scholarship

possible makes it much easier to

money on a laptop for my college

choose which one is best for you.

work, which helped with my online lessons and coursework.

Click here to apply for the Long Road Scholars Award today!

GET INVOLVED

STUDENT CLUBS & SOCIETIES

All of our students are off timetable (no lessons) on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons for what we call Plus Time.

The majority of our Student Societies meeting during Plus Time or Lunchtime so that all

Long Road is a community that

All students at Long Road Sixth

not only works together but plays

Form College have the

together! Our enrichment

opportunity to sign up to the Duke

programme encourages you to

of Edinburgh Gold Award

broaden your horizons and

Scheme. This is a fantastic way to

develop valuable skills that will

enjoy new and exciting

complement the knowledge

experiences, develop skills and

gained in your academic studies.

enhance your UCAS and job applications!

We know that it’s important for your wellbeing that you get time

This is a prestigious award that

to relax – so take a break and get

offers you the opportunity to build

involved in something you enjoy.

your confidence, gain new friends

students can come along and get involved!

and develop skills that will really From choirs to a theatre

enhance your university and job

company, you don’t have to be

applications.

studying Performing Arts to get

If you can't find a group that you want to get involved in then our staff will support you to start your own!

involved in our stage shows. Not a

Take a look at the next page to

born performer? Take control of

see just a handful of student

the lighting, costumes, set design

clubs and societies that you can

or music. Take on the challenge

get involved in!

of learning an instrument; whether its drums, the piano or

We also have a number of

even the saxophone we have the

competitive and casual sports

facilities for you to develop your

opportunities... more info on

musical and theatrical skills.

those in our next edition!

APPLIED SCIENCE LEVEL 3: KEY INFO Total students currently on course:

APPLIED SCIENCE STUDENTS VISIT SIZEWELL B NUCLEAR POWER STATION

107

Suffolk coast.

SAFFRON MACLEODBURROWS Long Road Class of 2019 Bioinformatics Degree Apprenticeship, Illumina

Students learnt how EDF Energy

Saffron joined Long Road after

produces electricity from

completing her GCSEs at Soham

radioactive uranium and saw

Village College. During her 2

some health and safety in action,

years as a student with us, she

dressing in the appropriate

spent her time studying Level 3

personal protective equipment

Applied Science Extended

(PPE) during their tour. They even

Diploma.

At the beginning of last year, our

Current average class

Applied Science students went on an exciting trip to the Sizewell

size: 13

Exam Board: Edexcel

Assessment: 58% Exam 42% Coursework

B Nuclear Power Station on the

got to touch the turbines producing 1.2 gigawatts of power

"I left Long Road in May 2019.

from the UKs only pressurised

Although I received university

water nuclear reactor!

offers, I decided to take an amazing opportunity to take a

A great day was had by all, with

Degree Apprenticeship in

really positive student and staff

Bioinformatics at Illumina!"

feedback – we can’t wait to visit again this year!

CHEMISTS CREATE EXCITING EPQ PROJECTS

CHEMISTRY A LEVEL: KEY INFO Total students currently on

We recently went on a visit to the

with the wonderful smell of

Long Road Chemistry labs where

grapes and then mint Alessandro

we met A Level Chemistry

learned a lot of practical

students Alessandro Rwambiwa,

Chemistry.

course: 251

Current average class

Cherub Jaladi and Oliver de Ferrars Green who have all been

Even in their first year at university

working on exciting EPQ projects.

few Chemistry students undertake a synthesis in five steps.

size: 19

Cherub Jaladi was focusing on refluxing Oil of Wintergreen as

Alessandro said "Throughout the

part of his EPQ on synthesis,

project I have spent over sixty

recrystallization and purity testing

hours carrying out practical

of aspirin.

activities in the lab, which gave me invaluable experience.

Oliver de Ferrars Green was

I am much more confident and

conducting research on ways to

proficient at reading and

optimise a method for collecting

summarising than I was before

data on the rate of reaction

which I believe to be an

between zinc and acid.

important skill going into university".

Alessandro Rwambiwa has done an EPQ looking at the synthesis of aspirin from anthranilic acids in five steps. While filling the lab

Exam Board: Edexcel

Assessment: 100% Exam

1ST PRIZE WINNER AT 6TH FORM STUDENT CONFERENCE

BIOLOGY A LEVEL: KEY INFO Total students currently on

In December 2019, The Babraham

PhD students and two were

Institute held a 6th Form student

scientists further on in their

conference; students had been

careers but who had taken

invited to submit Biology-based

different science-based routes

posters for a scientific poster

after PhD completion.

251

Current average class size:

conference (posters are one of the main ways that scientists

After the talks, the winners of the

communicate their research and

poster competition were

findings to other scientists).

announced. There were 3 prizes; 2nd and 3rd places went to

As well as 6th form student

students from Beaulieu Convent

posters, a number of PhD student

School, Jersey and Hills Road

posters were also displayed. The

Sixth Form College.

evening started with the poster viewing session where there was

First prize when to a Long Road

a chance to look at all the

Biology student, Shilan Bayir for

posters and speak to the students

her poster on the ‘Antimicrobial

who had made them. This was

properties of garlic’. Shilan had

followed by a speaker

carried out an investigation

programme. Speakers gave talks

where she found different

about their routes into science,

anti-bacterial properties of

why they would recommend what

uncooked vs cooked garlic. Shilan

they do but also the potential

was there with her Mum and both

difficulties of a career in science.

were delighted!

Three of the five speakers were

course:

19

Exam Board: Edexcel

Assessment: 100% Exam

PHYSICS A LEVEL: KEY INFO

ENGINEERING: WHERE MATHS MEETS MUSIC

Total students currently on course: 124

Current average class size: 17

Exam Board: OCR

Assessment: 100% Exam

Last year a group of Long Road

This device won a Hollywood

Physicists heard a lecture by Dr

nomination for the impact it has

Christopher Hicks from the

had on film production. He

University of Cambridge

discussed the ability of these

Department of Engineering at the

devices to pick out speech which

Cavendish Laboratories.

is being attempted to be made difficult to “bug” by loud TV noise

Dr Hicks led the students through

at the same time, and explained

the mathematics of digital signal

that it is possible to filter our the

processing, showing how the

speech as human speech has a

waveforms can be averaged and

very distinctive rate of change.

weighted to then allowed the removal of background noise. This

It turns out the best way to hide

included using weighted moving

your conversation is to run the

averages and Fourier

bath, the flowing water has a very

transformations to ensure that the

close rate of change pattern to

broadcast speech was clear

the human voice!

without any “noise” in the background.

He showed the internal working of the CEDAR DNS2, made by his company, which has been used in BBC outdoor broadcasts and Downton Abbey!

GEOGRAPHY A LEVEL Geography is the study of people and their relationship with their environment, the impacts each has on the other and the

KEA HAW Long Road Class of 2014 Geography, University of Manchester

GEOGRAPHY A LEVEL: KEY INFO Total students currently on course: 124

challenges of managing those impacts. You will take part in

Since leaving Long Road Kea

fieldwork, classroom discussions

went on to study a Geography

and internet research, and reflect

degree at the University of

on your own experiences: how will

Manchester. She then secured a

the changes to the planet affect

graduate scheme as a Transport

you, and how are you influencing

Planner in an Infrastructure and

these changes?

Development Consultancy.

You will spend time studying the

“The teaching at Long Road

carbon cycle, water cycle and

prepared me for the independent

energy security. You will gain an

study which was to follow at

in-depth understanding of the

university. Teachers were always

causes of tectonic hazards and

available and happy to clarify any

how to put into place successful

concerns I had.

responses. You will study superpowers and their global

You were encouraged to

impact on economy, politics and

research further into academic

the environment. You will explore

and news articles to help apply

how our rapidly globalizing world

classroom contexts to the real

impacts on migration, national

world. I also found small classes

identity and sovereignty.

very helpful, it made learning more enjoyable.”

Current average class size: 17

Exam Board: OCR

Assessment: 100% Exam

MEET SCHOLAR STUDENT, FINN

FINN Secondary School: Linton Village College

My favourite thing about being a

I’m planning to save my scholar

Long Road student is having good

money, so I have extra funds to

relationships with everyone at

spend at university. Therefore, I

school. All the teachers are very

will likely spend it on everyday

supportive and will help with

living costs such as food and

anything you need, whilst also

going out at night.

treating you as an adult. The

Year 2 Student

Studying: Biology A Level Chemistry A Level

students are all very friendly as

To work towards my progression

well and make sure that no one is

and career goals I have been

left out.

visiting university open days and using websites such as the UCAS

My advice to year 1 students is to

website to decide which courses

put yourself out there and talk to

and universities would be best for

new people. Everyone is very kind,

what I want to do in future work. I

and all want to meet new people

have also started to work on my

as well. Plus, the more people you

personal statement early, to give

know, the easier it is to meet even

me the best chance of getting

more people and get a true sense

into the university I decide to go

of the Long Road community.

to.

Economics A Level

Progression Goals: BSc Economics at University

Click here to apply for the Long Road Scholars Award today!

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