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today, alongside a great read on the power of thinking about happy memories! We're exploring our Science department once again, this time focusing on our
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Virtual Welcome Week Welcome Days and Open Evenings are two of our favourite events on the year and nothing could stop us from meeting all our new and prospective students! We have updated our plans and will not be hosting a Virtual Welcome Week for both our Year 11 applicants and Year 10 prospective students!
Our Virtual Welcome Week will be a combination of videos and live sessions from both students and staff, giving you the opportunity to explore everything Long Road has to offer from the safety and comfort of your own home! All you need is an internet connection (a laptop or computer would be best) but don’t worry, you won’t need a webcam or microphone.
Monday 22 June The fun will start on Monday 22nd June. Head to our website or YouTube channel to check out videos about each of our subjects, hear from current and former students and much, much more!
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PHYSICS A Level Physics is an exciting and challenging
The team designed and built a pair of
subject which examines both the
glasses which detect sounds and words
origins and the structure of the
and display the directional information
universe, from subatomic particles to
on LEDs.
the vast areas of the cosmos. Physics
“I like the way everything is interlinked and how it relates to real life.”
affects every part of our daily lives,
This project was a serious commitment
from civil, mechanical and motor
of around 70 hours of project time; the
engineering, to how we have
team formed in October 2018 and
harnessed both nuclear energy to heat
worked on their project weekly since
and light our environment, and waves
then up to April 2019. They spent 2
gave a 15-minute presentation to a
to communicate.
hours every week as a team and then a
panel of 5 professional engineers and
further 2 hours with the mentor Last year a group of Year 1 Physics
engineer from ARM developing the
students were winners of the
project. They completed a detailed
Engineering Education Scheme!
report on the whole process of the
At the Celebration event, the team
answered questions from the panel and all other 15 teams of competitors; they also set up a display board for the project where they were interviewed by more assessor engineers.
design and development of the glasses. The team had been working on a
We are proud to announce that our Long Road team won the People’s
project with the local company ARM
Choice award as a result of all the
which set them the challenge of
votes from everyone present on the
changing the world using one of their
day! Congratulations to Jamie, Luke,
microprocessors.
Dale, Eddie and Rachel on your win!
CALMING POWER OF REMINISCING ABOUT HAPPY TIMES A recent article by Emma Young You’ve just had a fight with your
Your brain needs help if it’s to quickly
partner or a confrontation with a
regain control. And, according to
colleague. Now your heart’s racing,
a new study published in Nature Human
and you’re struggling to think straight.
Behaviour, you can provide it by
What should you do?
thinking back over good times.
Psychologists are not short on ideas for
Mauricio Delgado and Megan Speer at
how to calm yourself down after a
Rutgers University, US, made 134
stressful experience. Seek out a friend?
volunteers feel stressed by videoing
Yes, there’s good evidence that can
them while they plunged their hands
help. But what if there’s no friend to
into icy water. Some then spent 14
hand? You could try to alter your view
seconds reminiscing about a positive
of what just happened from “Disaster!”
experience (like visiting Disneyland)
to “Not really so bad”.
while others reflected on an
If you're feeling stressed or anxious please reach out to family, friends or your school support teams. Remember, we're all in this together.
emotionally neutral event (such as But it can be difficult to engage in this
getting luggage ready for the trip).
the surge observed in the neutral memory group. Thinking about happy
kind of “cognitive reappraisal” when you’re in the immediate aftermath of a
Afterwards, the group who’d recalled
memories, then, went right to the heart
stressful event – perhaps because
happy memories felt better, but not
of the physiological stress response.
acute stress compromises the neural
only that: the expected rise in their
circuitry that’s involved in emotion
levels of the stress hormone cortisol
To explore how, Delgado and Speer
regulation.
was only 15 per cent, on average, of
used the same technique as before to
CALMING POWER OF REMINISCING ABOUT HAPPY TIMES A recent article by Emma Young stress a fresh group of volunteers and
associated with increased activity in
combat acute stress at a physical level
then had them reminisce about their
prefrontal brain regions associated
is important, since there’s plenty of
own positive or neutral experiences
with emotion regulation and cognitive
research finding that people who tend
while they scanned their brains using
control – the same regions suppressed
to calm down physiologically soon
fMRI. The pair found that recollecting
by acute stress – as well as in
after stressful events are generally
good, but not neutral, memories was
corticostriatal regions associated with
healthier, both physically and
the processing of reward.
psychologically, over the long term.
“Engagement of cortical regions
There are a few caveats. This work was
previously linked to emotion regulatory
on healthy adults. People with
functions may be significant for
depression usually find it hard to recall
enhancing or sustaining pleasant
positive memories, so this technique
feelings during positive reminiscence,
may not work well for them. And it’s not
thus dampening the physiological
clear yet whether any technique that
stress response,” the researchers
makes you feel positive emotions would
concluded.
be effective or if there’s something
If you're feeling stressed or anxious please reach out to family, friends or your school support teams. Remember, we're all in this together.
special about reminiscing. The idea that thinking about positive past events, including achievements or
But this is at least a simple method,
successes, can help to improve
and one that in theory many people
ongoing mood and resilience to stress
could try.
is certainly not new. But showing that simply recalling happy memories can
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, Boomie...
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
This is Boomerang (Boomie). She’s an 8
doing a great job of cheering us up
month old Sproodle and loving having
too!
her whole family home all the time.
To keep everyone smiling we will be
She a big fan of her banana and trying
sharing a Pet Employee of the Week
to carry home the largest branch she
every Friday on our Instagram page
can find
Email your pet photos along with 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 Friday on our Instagram account
@lr6fc
@lr6fc. Make sure you follow us to see the weekly winner and runners up!
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INSTA LIKES AND INSTA LOVE Spreading likes and love on social media
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As well as sending you this applicant
We're all about fun and positivity - you
newsletter, we will also be spreading
can use the opposite page to reflect
the love over on our Instagram
on things you are grateful for and start
account!
spreading that positivity.
We're going to be posting different
But it's not all about us, we want to
activities on our Instagram for you to
know what you're getting up to! Make
take part in. So take a break from
sure you use our hashtag -
studying and follow us on Instagram
#LongRoadLife and tag @lr6fc in your
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posts and stories so that we can share
to get involved with our lockdown activities!
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Share the Insta love with us! Use our Instagram feed and stories as a base for connecting with other students and applicants.
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JUNE 2020 : EDITION 13
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