LOCKDOWN LOWDOWN Bringing you the latest Long Road lockdown news!
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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
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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!
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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