#LONGROADLIFE Long Road Sixth Form College Weekly Applicant Newsletter
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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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JUNE 2020 : EDITION 14
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