Lockdown Lowdown - Edition 4

LOCKDOWN LOWDOWN Bringing you the latest Long Road lockdown news!

KEEP IN TOUCH

SENDING VIRTUAL HUGS X Hello, from Long Road!

It's already week 4 of college closure, we hope you're all enjoying a well earned Easter Break! Spring has definitely sprung and we're feeling optimistic about

Long Road Sixth Form

the summer term and whatever it may bring!

College

@LR6FC

Make sure your keep in touch with your teachers, Progress Coach and us on social media!

@lr6fc Sending virtual hugs - Long Road x

enquiries@longroad.ac.uk

01223 631100

www.longroad.ac.uk

SUMMER EXAMS UPDATE Exam Results 2020 OfQual have now announced how they would like to proceed with the

It is not yet clear how this works for Applied General courses, and we may

awarding of grades for A Levels and

need to wait for additional guidance

GCSE Qualifications this summer.

from the awarding bodies, such as BTEC, before we know.

We will be looking at this in detail this afternoon and determining the course

We will communicate with all students

of action we need to take to submit

once we have understood the process

grades. Please bear with us while we

fully.

do this, we need to get it right.

Please click here to read the full release on the OfQual website.

If you are feeling stressed or anxious please contact a member of the welfare team on wellbeing@longroad.ac.uk and someone will call you.

"Long Road was a wonderful stepping stone to University.

The teachers engaged with us as adults and the friends I made are still some of my best friends today.”

MATTHEW ARMSTRONG Long Road Alumnus, 1999

Long Road alumni Matthew recently

think and approach work, not what to

got in touch to tell us what he’s been

think. It very much prepared me for life,

up to since leaving Long Road, and

not just exams. Long Road was a

how studying at our college helped him

wonderful stepping stone to University.

get where he is today. Matthew left

The teachers engaged with us as

Long Road in 1999 and now works as a

adults and the friends I made are still

Development Director at Wycliffe Hall,

some of my best friends today.”

University of Oxford!

Do you know an ex-Long Road “I help to create, resource and fund

student? They can join our Alumni

solutions to a wide range of problems

Community, simply visit:

and opportunities. Long Road encouraged and taught me how to

https://networks.futurefirst.org.uk/sig nup/longroad

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

Not everyone is feeling down in the

Pepper is 6 (and a half) years old. She

dumps about being on lockdown. Our

loves to cuddle almost as much as she

fluffy friends are loving the fact that

loves to torment the other

we're working from home -and thy're

neighbourhood cats. She can most

doing a great job of cheering us up

often be found asleep in someone’s

too!

bed or playing her favourite game

PET EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK

Is your pet assisting you while you work at home?

Whether they're helping you

of knocking everything off the table

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

Email your pet photos along with a short description including

To keep everyone smiling we will be

their name and age to

sharing a Pet Employee of the Week

A big thank you to Georgia in our

every Friday on our Instagram page

Admissions Team for introducing us to

@lr6fc. Make sure you follow us to see

Pepper, we can't wait to give her a

the weekly winner and runners up!

cuddle!

afutter@longroad.ac.uk.

We will be posting our winning Pet Employee of the Week every Friday on our Instagram account

@lr6fc Meet this weeks Pet Employee of the Week, Pepper...

QUARAN-TEA Spill the tea Write us an article on what you've been doing during lockdown!

SPILLING THE TEA ON THE BEST WAYS TO GET THROUGH LOCKDOWN This week we've been asking you for TV Series recommendations. Grab your lock down snacks and wrap yourself up in a fluffy blanket ready for a day of binge watching!

A big thank you to everyone on Instagram who got involved!

It can be about any topic, as long or short as you like and include photos - whatever you've been up to we want to hear from you!

Email

afutter@longroad.ac.uk to see your work here in the Quaran-tea!

TV Series Recommendations: Tiger King - Netflix

Happy Valley - BBC iPlayer / Netflix

Killing Eve - BBC iPlayer

Stranger Things - Netflix

Life on Mars - Netflix

Peaky Blinders - Netflix

Friday Night Dinner - Channel 4

After Life - Netflix

Ru Paul's Drag Race - Netflix

Peaky Blinders - Netflix

Detectorists - BBC iPlayer

Breaking Bad - Netflix

You - Netflix

The Good Place - Netflix

Ozark - Netflix

FRIENDS - Netflix

Westworld - Amazon Prime

Brooklyn 99 - Netflix

Self-made - Netflix

Orange is the New Black - Netflix

Crazy ex-girlfriend - Netflix

IT Crowd - Channel 4

Transparent - Amazon Prime

Ozarks- Netflix

Quiz - ITV

Rick and Morty - Netflix

STUDYING FROM HOME - STEPS TO SUCCESS Studying and working from home, it's pretty strange for all of us! To try and help you out we will be sharing a studying from home tip every week to help keep you on thew path to success!

Remember, if you're struggling with studying from home you can contact your teachers and Progress Coach for individual advice,

Do you have a tip for studying at home? Let us know!

Email Abby on

afutter@longroad.ac.uk to share your advice

LOCK DOWN - GLOW UP USING YOUR EXTRA TIME TO GLOW UP YOUR SKILLS Being in lockdown is giving us all lots of

April is Stress Awareness Month so

extra time during our day. But just

we're looking at the different skills and

because you're at home doesn't mean

techniques you can use to manage

you have to watch Netflix all day

your stress. For more information you

(although we know it is tempting).

can click here to visit the Stress Management Society website.

Are you learning a new skill while you're in lockdown?

Have you found a great resource?

Share it with us! Email afutter@longroad.ac.uk

#LongRoadLife

INSTA LIKES AND INSTA LOVE Spreading likes and love on social media

Make sure you follow us

As well as sending you this newsletter,

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

we will also be spreading the love over

know what you're getting up to! Make

@lr6fc

on our Instagram account!

sure you use our hashtag -

#LongRoadLife and tag @lr6fc in your posts

We're going to be posting different

posts and stories so that we can share

activities on our Instagram for you to

you on our Instagram feed!

and stories so we can

take part in. So take a break from

to get involved with our lockdown activities!

Use

share them on our feed!

#LongRoadLife and tag @lr6fc in your

studying and follow us on Instagram

@lr6fc to get involved. Share the Insta love with us! Use our Instagram feed and stories as a

We're all about fun and positivity - you

base for connecting with

can use the opposite page to reflect

other students and

on things you are grateful for and start

applicants.

spreading that positivity.

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