#LongRoadLife - Edition 14

#LONGROADLIFE Long Road Sixth Form College Weekly Applicant Newsletter

KEEP IN TOUCH Long Road Sixth Form College

EXPLORE YOUR MIND...

Hello, from Long Road!

Today we're exploring the mind with our A Level and Level Psychology courses!

We'll be telling you all about their trip to Poland earlier this year as well as the difference in studying Applied Psychology and A Level Psychology

@LR6FC As always we've got a new Pet Employee of the week for your to meet and we

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will also be giving you some tips on working from home as you start your summer work activities!

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PSYCHOLOGY A Level Psychology is the scientific study of the

On day 1 we visited the market in

human mind and behaviour. This

Krakow; had lunch in the old town; had

popular subject combines fascinating

some free time to go shopping and

content with a scientific approach to

explore the city; went for dinner and a

investigation. Psychologists study a

folk show.

range of influences from early childhood experiences and

Day 2 was our trip to Auschwitz and

socialisation to biological factors such

Birkenau; we had a tour guide

as genes, hormones and brain

throughout and this really brought

structure.

home the scale of the atrocities that occurred there. This was then followed

Earlier this year, our Psychology

by a 3-hour salt mine tour that had a

students went on an exciting

depth of 327 metres, that extends via

residential trip to Poland. This trip was

horizontal passages and chambers for

aimed to increase, enlighten, and give

over 287 kilometres (178 miles). We

insight into our social influence topic

went for dinner at the Hard Rock café

that we study in psychology. This has

which was a well-needed pick up for

direct links with social psychology

us all ad time to reflect.

where we look at how we can explain why the Nazis followed Hitler’s orders

On Day 3, we had a walking tour of

and apply knowledge of conformity to

Krakow’s Jewish District and met a

real-life examples.

holocaust survivor.

"I found the recent trip to Poland very interesting and eye-opening. I found Schindler’s museum to be very useful in my studies and it showed me reasons to why an event like the holocaust was ever able to happen and how the general public was controlled through fear."

"I find looking at case studies and analysing them fascinating. The way in which an idea is explained engages me, and I want to learn more. Different areas of Psychology are looked at in depth.

Right from the start I found that I had absorbed a lot of information. “

APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY Level 3 Diploma Psychology can be defined as the

However, their method of assessment is

scientific study of mind and behaviour.

different. Unlike A-level, the National

The National Extended Certificate in

Extended Certificate allows

Applied Psychology course offers you

students to complete modules and sit

the opportunity to engage in this

assessments as they go rather than

scientific process through studying the

doing 100% examined assessment at

various theories of human behaviour

the end of 2 years.

and conducting a research project that requires you to collect and analyse

Furthermore, the National Extended

data.

Certificate offers coursework whereas A-level does not.

How does Level 3 Applied Psychology differ from A Level Psychology?

Both courses try to explain human behaviour and cover similar content.

Both are basically science subjects and both require learning a lot of terms to understand theories.

STUDYING FROM HOME - STEPS TO SUCCESS Now that you've received your Summer Work for the new academic year we hope you're feeling excited about the idea of moving up to Sixth Form College!

it's been a while since you've been at school and although remote learning might feel like the new normal, it still brings plenty of challenges.

We'll be giving you a tip each week to help you successfully study from home and get you back into the swing of this before you join us in September!

PET EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK

Is your pet assisting you while you work at home?

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

Not everyone is feeling down in the

Meet this weeks Pet Employee of the

dumps about being on lockdown. Our

Week, Percy...

fluffy friends are loving the fact that Whether they're helping you revise, or lazing on your laptop, we want to know!

we're working from home -and thy're

All his Christmases have come at

doing a great job of cheering us up

once as he has the entire family at

too!

home giving him attention.

Email your pet photos along with

Annoyingly he likes to sit on my

a short description including their name and age to

afutter@longroad.ac.uk.

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

To keep everyone smiling we will be

keyboard when trying to work and has

sharing a Pet Employee of the Week

been popping up in the video

every Friday on our Instagram page

conferencing meetings.

@lr6fc. Make sure you follow us to see the weekly winner and runners up!

He often likes to bring in

Friday on our Instagram account

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little gifts (mice mainly) to play with then eat!

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But it's not all about us, we want to

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take part in. So take a break from

sure you use our hashtag -

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JUNE 2020 : EDITION 14

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