JUNE EDITION: VOL. 6
#LongRoadLife LONG ROAD SIXTH FORM COLLEGE APPLICANT NEWSLETTER
FEELING THE HEAT?! SUMMER WELCOME DAYS & EXAM SEASON Hello from Long Road!
WELCOME DAYS: 7 & 8 JULY 2022
MANAGING EXAM ANXIETY
Everyone is certainly feeling the heat this summer term; a busy time filled with the excitement of summer welcome days and nerves around exams. In this edition we have you covered for advice on how to manage exam anxiety as well as all the
EXTRENDED PROJECT QUALIFICATION
important info you need on our Welcome Days!
SOCIAL SCIENCES We will also be exploring our Social Sciences department, with
DEPARTMENT
a special report from our Politics Course Team Leader, Gavin, on their recent trip to 10 Downing Street!
Good luck with your exams & we can't wait to see you next month at Welcome Days! Long Road
OPEN EVENINGS 5 & 6 JULY 2022
WE'RE HERE TO HELP
WELCOME DAYS: 7 & 8 JULY
Our friendly Admissions Team are here to support and guide you through every stage of your Long Road application.
with you in mind, the aim is to
What do I need to bring on the day?
make you feel as comfortable,
To ensure you can get the most
prepared and excited as possible
out of your day, we would like you
to join us as a new student in
to bring some pen and paper with
September!
you. You will also need to bring a
Our Welcome Days are created
packed lunch – limited snacks will
If you have any questions,
You will spend the day trying out
be available to purchase on site.
your chosen subjects, getting to
please get in touch!
Heidi Hauser Director of Admissions
know subject teachers, meeting
How do I get to Long Road?
other new students who share
Please click here to visit our
your academic interests and
website for information about
finding out what life is like as a
travelling to and from Long Road.
Long Road student.
The college shuttle bus will be available for pick up and drop off
Julianna Sosnowska Admissions Officer
01223 63 1125
We make every effort to try and
at the Cambridge Railway
ensure you are timetabled for the
Station. The times for this will be
lessons you have been offered
updated on our website closer to
but this may not always be
the time.
possible.
Summer Work admissions@longroad.ac.uk
If you are a Level 2 student, then
One of the most important
you might be invited to general
activities to help prepare you for
Level 2 sessions, which will be
your studies as a Long Road
held throughout the day, rather
student is completing the Summer
than your chosen subjects.
Work tasks for each of your
WELCOME DAYS: 7 & 8 JULY
WE'RE HERE TO HELP Our friendly Admissions
subjects. We will explain this activity to you during our Welcome Days
Team are here to support
as well as share downloadable Summer Work documents, soon to be on our website, to refresh your memory over the summer holidays.
and guide you through every stage of your Long
These activities aren’t here to trip you up or catch you out, they’re designed to give you an extra taste of what you will be learning during
Road application.
your time at Long Road and we hope you have fun completing them! The Summer Work will need to be completed, ready for your first day
If you have any questions,
with us.
please get in touch!
What will my day look like? To help you better understand the day ahead, we have included a template of what your timetable might look like below:
ARRIVAL
10:00 - 10:30
Heidi Hauser Director of Admissions
10:00 - 10:30
Julianna Sosnowska 10:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:30
10:30 - 12:00
LESSON 1
LUNCH A
LESSON 2B
Admissions Officer
12:00 - 13:30
01223 63 1125
12:30 - 14:00
LESSON 2A
LUNCH B
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:30
LESSON 3
14:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:00
DEPARTURE
15:30 - 16:00
admissions@longroad.ac.uk
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
25 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
26 AUGUST - 2ND SEPTEMBER 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!
STOP ANXIETY FROM RUINING YOUR SLEEP It is often when we get into bed that we really have time to stop and worry – until we're overwhelmed & can't sleep! Try out these strategies and you’ll be drifting off
MANAGING EXAM ANXIETY Many of you are probably feeling
IMAGERY
more anxious than usual at the
Your thoughts have immense
moment. Not only have we been
power over how you feel. If you
living through a global pandemic
think of something happy and
for the last few years, and
calming, you will start to feel
adjusting to a new normal, you're
relaxed. This is the imagery
also having to sit exams for the
technique and you can harness
first time - it's a lot to deal with!
this inner super-power to reduce your anxiety. Think about a place
peacefully in no time…
THANKFUL THOUGHTS We know that fixating on negative thoughts has a
Whether you are experiencing
you find comforting – use all your
anxiety for the first time, or have
sense to imagine this place in full
suffered from anxiety in the past,
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it’s important to find some coping mechanisms that work for you.
Deep breathing is a really simple
negative impact on sleep, so it follows that the opposite is also true! Trying thinking about the things in life that
DEEP BREATHING
We’ve been researching different
technique that is a great way of
techniques for dealing with
managing your emotions and
anxiety and found 5 top coping
anxiety. Breathe in deeply
skills that work for lots of people –
through your nose, for 4 seconds.
you are thankful for and make
and will hopefully work for you
Hold your breath for 4
you feel positive. This will help
too!
seconds.
calm your mind and therefore get a better nights sleep.
Breathe out slowly through All of these techniques are very
your mouth for 6 seconds.
subtle, so where ever you are -
Try and repeat this for 3
even if you're in the middle of an
minutes, or until you feel
exam - you can use them to
calmer.
regain control over your feelings.
MANAGING EXAM ANXIETY PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION
Arms: Make fists and squeeze
WRITE AWAY WORRIES
them towards your shoulders.
Set aside some time before
Progressively relaxing your
Hold for 10 seconds. Relax.
muscles will teach you to spot
Hands: Curl your fingers into
anxiety by recognising the
your palm and make a fist.
feelings of muscle tension. Sit in
Hold for 10 seconds. Relax.
a comfortable position and work
Face: Scrunch your facial
through the list of body areas
features to the centre of your
below, tensing your muscles
face. Hold for 10 seconds.
tightly for 10 seconds before
Relax.
releasing. Feet: Curl your toes tightly
5-4-3-2-1 TECHNIQUE
into your feet. Hold for 10
This is another really simple
seconds. Relax
technique that you can use any
Calves: Point or flex your feet.
time that anxiety strikes, no
Hold for 10 seconds. Relax.
matter where you are!
Thighs: Squeeze your thighs
First, look around you and
together tightly. Hold for 10
identify 5 things that you can
seconds. Relax.
see.
Torso: Suck in your abdomen.
Now identify 4 different
Hold for 10 seconds. Relax.
sounds you can hear.
Back: Squeeze your shoulders
Next, identify 3 things that
together. Hold for 10 seconds.
you can feel.
Relax.
Then identify 2 things that
Shoulders: Lift and squeeze
you can smell.
your shoulders towards your
Finally, identify 1 thing that
ears. Hold for 10 seconds.
you can taste.
Relax.
STOP ANXIETY FROM RUINING YOUR SLEEP
you go to bed to write all your worries down and plan how you are going to tackle them
PUT YOUR DAY TO BED Engaging in activities that make us feel anxious or stressed just before we go to bed makes it really hard to get to sleep. So while you may feel the need to cram some late night revision, try and avoid this! Put your revision to bed, then put yourself to bed! You can look at it again in the morning when you are refreshed and well rested.
EPQ: KEY INFO
EXTENDED PROJECT QUALIFICATION
Total students currently on course: 77
Current average class size: 11
Assessment: 100% coursework
Exam Board: Pearson
Boost your CV and enhance your
giving you time to think about
personal statement while carrying
your goals after Long Road and
out an independent project on a
tailor your EPQ to help achieve
topic you love. The EPQ is
these dreams.
equivalent to half an A Level, but it’ so much more than an extra
Independence is key with the
qualification.
EQP, meaning you get to choose what you’d like to study and how
The Extended Project
you’d like to study it. The topic
Qualification showcases to
can be related to your other
employers and universities that
subjects or can be something
you’re an independent learner,
completely different and you can
able to manage a project, solve
decide how you present your final
problems, organise your time,
product. You can…
conduct original research and
write a dissertation
produce a high-quality product.
create an artefact
In fact, this additional
produce a performance, or
qualification is so highly valued
carry out an investigation.
that some universities will even lower their grade boundaries for
Although the EPQ is largely
you if you achieve a high EPQ
independent study, you’ll have a
grade!
specialised EQP tutor to keep you on track and regular lessons to
If you decide to carry out the EPQ
help you to understand the
you’ll start at the end of Year 1,
requirements of the qualification.
MURDER IN THE WOODS Every summer, our Criminology
Spending the morning in the
students become detectives and
woods investigating the murder
our woodland walk is transformed
scene, the students then move
into a murder scene! Our students
inside to one of our science labs
put into practice the investigative
where they analyse the evidence
skills they have studied
they have collected for DNA and
throughout the year by
fingerprints.
performing their own Murder in
CRIMINOLOGY LEVEL 3: KEY INFO Total students currently on course: 649
Current average class size:
the Woods crime scene
In previous years our students
investigation.
have been joined by local police
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officers who have said “This day is To make the event as realistic as
essentially a showcase about
possible students are given full
what we do on the policing side
crime scene kit and follow police
on things. and linking that up with
procedures to locate, identify,
how criminology experts would
collect and preserve evidence
respond on the scene. This is as
that might help them solve the
real as we could possibly get it.
murder mystery.
Our students not only have the
officers, pathologists and forensic
chance to study the body and
psychologists – and this gives
evidence at the scene, but also
them a chance to build a picture
interview a witness of the crime
up of what their job could be
and talk to the press about the
like.”
so far.
50% Exam 50% Coursework
Exam Board: We have potential new police
information they had put together
Assessment:
WJEC
POLITICS A LEVEL: KEY INFO
POLITICS STUDENTS VISIT 10 DOWNING STREET!
Total students currently on course: 95
Current average class size: 19
Assessment:
Back in April, our A Level Politics
legislation that involved a mock
students visited the Palace of
debate over whether or not to
Westminster and the
abolish tuition fees for students
Parliamentary Education Unit. We
at English universities.
were given an audio descriptive tour of the Palace which included
On our way out of Parliament we
witnessing some of the
were shown the Speaker’s House
preparations that are underway
and crossed paths with veteran
for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II
MP Sir Peter Bone, as noted by
for the State Opening of
one of the students.
Parliament on May 10th. Following
100% Exam
Exam Board: Edexcel
the route that the monarch will
After clearing security at
be taking we were shown the
Downing Street, we were met by
House of Lords and then crossed
two of the Prime Minister’s private
through the central lobby to
staff and the students took it in
watch some of the ministerial
turns to get a selfie in front of the
questions for the department of
famous black door, which opened
Trade and Industry from the
on a few occasions (only from the
public gallery of the House of
inside) as the government carried
Commons.
on around us. Sadly the PM was not available but the Chief
Following our tour the students
Mouser to the Cabinet Office,
were met at the Parliamentary
Larry the cat, was on hand for
Education Unit where they took
pictures and a few strokes!
part in the workshop on
ARU PSYCHOLOGY OPEN DAY At the start of this year, 75 of our
The afternoon was formed of a
A Level Psychology and Applied
number of taster lectures focused
Psychology visited Anglia Ruskin
on topics such as obsessive
University for a special Open Day
compulsive disorder and how to
focusing on their Psychology
manage emotions.
courses.
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: KEY INFO Total students currently on course: 385
Current average class We were then privileged enough
Students spent the day attending
to meet lots of Psychology staff
taster lectures, exploring the
and current students studying the
university campus and seeing the
ARU who gave our students great
inner workings of a Psychology
insight into what it’s like to study
lab. They were impressed by the
Psychology at university.
specialist psychology labs and
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Assessment: 50% Exam
had the opportunity to tour an
Thank you to Anglia Ruskin for
EEG Lab, Perception Lab,
putting on such a fantastic day
Neuroscience Lab, Development
for us!
Lab and Psychometrics Lab!
size:
50% Coursework
Exam Board: Edexcel
PSYCHOLOGY A LEVEL: KEY INFO Total students currently on course:
PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS MEET HEADS OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
401
Current average class size: 22
At the start of the academic year,
Dr Emma Woodberry and Dr
our A Level and Applied
Heather Condon, Heads of
Psychology students were lucky
Neuropsychology, visited the
enough to welcome the Heads of
college to give a talk to our A
Neuropsychology, Dr Woodberry
Level and Applied Psychology
and Dr Condon, at Addenbrookes
students about memory and their
Hospital to our campus!
work at Addenbrooke’s hospital
Assessment: 100% Exam
with patients with memory The neuropsychology department
disorders.
at Addenbrookes is a small team
Exam Board: AQA
of 12 psychologists and a
Thank you so much to Emma and
secretary. The department
Heather for giving us such an
specialises in the cognitive,
interesting insight into their work
emotional and behavioural
and giving up their time to visit
effects of brain injury and
us!
neurological disease, with particular specialism in memory. The team receives referrals mostly from neurologists, neurosurgeons and specialist nurses with questions about a patient’s cognitive function and how best to help.
SOCIOLOGY A LEVEL
answer questions about why
KITT CARTER Long Road Class of 2021 Law, University of Bristol
people behave the way they do.
Congratulations to Kitt who
Sociology makes you look at the
achieved an outstanding set out
world around you in completely
results last summer with an A* in
new ways!
Sociology and A's in Criminology,
Sociology is concerned with social behaviour and attempts to
Biology and EPQ.
SOCIOLOGY A LEVEL: KEY INFO Total students currently on course: 401
Current average class size:
Throughout your first year of study you will look at the role and
"My favourite thing about Long
purpose of education, investigate
Road is the opportunities given to
different sociological views on
students. The best trip was
the role of family and the
definitely the Pride Society's trip
changing experience of
to the Houses of Parliaments. We
childhood. You will also learn the
were given a guided tour of the
way in which sociologists study
building with a focus on LGBT
society and the methods they use
legislation and then even got to
to do this.
watch a debate in the Houses of Commons.
In your second year you will investigate the causes, control
I'd like to thank all my teachers,
and punishment of crime. You will
especially Alexis and Alice from
study the social role of religion in
Sociology for helping me achieve
society and the explore
my grades and getting me to my
explanations for the rise f
first choice of university"
religious fundamentalism and extremism.
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Assessment: 100% Exam
Exam Board: AQA
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