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We know we’re good – now we can prove it!Ofsted graded Long Road Sixth Form College as Good in all four main areas when they visited the College in February. The reason for their grading was that an increasing proportion of students are progressing to prestigious universities; teaching, learning and assessment are good and improving; both academic and pastoral staff support students particularly well, helping them to achieve and preparing them well for their lives beyond college; the Principal, along with governors, has a clear vision of what the college needs to do to raise standards further; and students who did not achieve a high GCSE grade at school in English and Mathematics make good progress in improving their skills in these subjects, particularly in English.

How to prepare for universityLong Road Sixth Form College Progress Coaches work with students on their university applications and share their joy when they are offered a place on their dream course.

But what happens once you arrive at university? You are excited to be there and looking forward to your studies, but it might be the first time you’ve lived away from home, you don’t know anyone there, and you’re worried about budgeting.

To help our students arrive at university with all the know-how they need, Bryony Biamonti, one of our Progress Coaches, along with the other members of the Progress Coach team, planned a special event with information points, talks and a raffle. The stalls included: what to do in your first week; budgeting; making friends; coping with being away from home; and health - trying on ‘beer goggles’ to see how being drunk really incapacitates you (kindly lent by CASUS: Child and Adolescent Substance Use Service) free drink ‘anti-spikers’, information on the dangers of smoking and how to avoid drugs.

There was also lots of information on entertainment and clothing on a budget – student discounts, charity shop chic, car boots and cinema midweek deals.

There were lots of student-friendly recipe books, lots of samples of economical foods and cooking equipment and drinks/ discount cards.

University Centre Peterborough gave two presentations throughout the day on what students need to do to prepare for university and on the academic skills they will need.

To get everyone off to a good start, the Progress Coaches arranged a free raffle, with prizes kindly donated by Twinings and the Arts Picturehouse. Prizes included: • a hamper of goodies – a household /

leaving home starter kit, displayed in a useful washing-up bowl

• free Picturehouse tickets• a giant bag of pasta• Options Belgian hot chocolate drink• Options Mellow Creamy White drinking

chocolate• Twinings tea bags• TX Maxx vouchers

Bryony says: “The event was very successful, and we hope that students now feel a little more confident about taking that big step. We will be running the event again next year and hope that it will become a fixture in the College calendar.”

“We are delighted with these positive comments,” says Principal Christine Sherwin. “The work we have carried out in developing our curriculum offer and improving teaching, learning and assessment , along with providing high quality pastoral care, has been recognised by the inspection report, and we are confident that we are moving in the right direction. We will continue with our aim to become an outstanding sixth form college, taking on board the very useful recommendations of the inspection team.”

Information about how the College intends to become Outstanding can be found in the Self Assessment and Strategic Plan on the College website.

Double funding boost for CollegeLong Road has been awarded nearly £1 million by the Sixth Form College Building Condition Improvement Fund. This will benefit all our students, but in particular ones studying Science, Art, Photography and Music. We will be able to complete the modernisation of our Science laboratories, create a new Digital Photography classroom, provide a new practice room for Music students, extend a teaching block and create a light, purpose-built studio for our Art Foundation course. Our IT network will be upgraded, and we will be able to refurbish ‘The Tower’, which is above our recently remodelled Expressive Arts Studio. This will give us flexible additional teaching or meeting space in the main College building.

The College has also been awarded £128,000 by Sport England to add to money allocated by the College and UTC. This is to build a new all-weather pitch behind our Sport Hall - perfect for our hockey team.

From left to right :

back row: ben Hudson (Sport teacher and hockey coach), Guy Flynn (hockey team), Matthew Summerscales (art & Design Level 3 Diploma), will Lander (hockey team), Pippa wade (chemistry student) and Luke Thomas (biology student)

FronT row: rhodri Furlong (hockey team), Dennecia Gordon (art & Design Level 3 Diploma), Lucy cookson (hockey team), Dan Payne (Music - with his drumsticks) and Dan rees (Music - with electric guitar).

Esther Sodeke receiving the hamper of goodies from bryony biamonti (right)

aerielle Montoya and ayana TorioDavid Maycroft

beer goggles

rosa colaco (left) and chloe creamer (right)

Jack wilkin and Meghan brannigan

Mina Perkins

College celebrates Investors in People reaccreditationThe College is delighted to have been reaccredited by Investors in People.

“This is an excellent result,” says Vice Principal Mike Bryant (right). “It shows that we have worked extremely hard to offer our staff the best possible programme of skills development and recognition, and to provide both teaching and support staff clear guidance on how they can develop a fulfilling and worthwhile career at the College. The areas of particular strength and good practice highlighted by the visit also show that our work to involve staff in all aspects of the life of the College has been extremely successful.”

Mike bryant, Vice Principal (curriculum and Quality)

Here are some of the students who visited stalls and won raffle prizes:

We know we’re good!Come and find out why

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Tom Horn wins Radio Journalist of the Year in EDF Energy Media awardFormer student Tom Horn (English Language, Media Studies, Geography and German A levels) was awarded the East of England Radio Journalist of the Year for his work as News Editor at Heart Cambridgeshire. After Long Road, Tom took the BA (Hons) in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Leeds. He gained work experience at local radio stations during his degree, which led to a post-degree job with Global Radio, the UK’s largest commercial radio group. He then joined Heart and can often be heard reading the news on the Heart Network to Heart stations across the country.

Tom visited the College again in November 2012 to open the new Student Centre.

Careers event brings together biggest ever range of companies and organisationsIt’s never too early to start thinking about your future.

The annual Long Road Sixth Form College careers event on 27th March was one of the largest ever with a huge range of companies and organisations kindly giving up their time to talk to our students. Exhibitors included PA Consulting, Ernst & Young (EY), Grant Thornton, Ensors, TWI and Johnson Massey, along with Napp Pharmaceuticals and LGC. Lloyds and Barclays came to talk about post-A level opportunities, and there were opportunities to find out about the Design Technician advanced apprenticeship from Marshalls Aerospace.

Former Long Road students came back with their firms or organisations to talk to our students. Here are five of our recent graduates:

Will Young, who is studying for the Masters Degree in Chemistry at the University of Reading, came along as a representative of Napp Pharmaceuticals. Will is taking his industrial placement year with them in the stability department, where medicines are tested periodically under different conditions. Will took Chemistry, Electronics and Mathematics (Statistics) at Long Road in 2011.

Former Long Road students at Careers eventPolly Debnam is taking an HNC in Business at Cambridge Regional College after completing her A levels in Art, Business and Geography in 2013. Next year she will take the HND in Business, followed by a third year at Anglia Ruskin University to complete her Business degree. While studying she is able to work at Karen Millen one or two days a week to get invaluable fashion business experience.

Alana Green and Michael Poskitt are taking the Advanced Apprenticeship: Design Technician (Mechanical / Structures). This is a 6-year course which leads to a degree. Years 1-3 are based at Marshalls, starting with a NVQL2 followed by working in the hangars. Alana and Michael have been working on the RAF Hercules, dismantling Lockheed TriStars and working on Cessna Citations (business jets). Years 2 and 3 include taking a level 3 BTEC on day release at Bedford College, then Years 4 to 6 are the degree studies at Loughborough University. Every year about 200 students apply for this apprenticeship and 15 are accepted.

Shannon Thompson took A levels in History, Psychology and Sociology in 2012 then went to India with Project Trust to teach English at an eye hospital. When she came back, Shannon applied to work as an ambassador for Project Trust before starting her degree in History and Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast.

Hej! Welcome to Denmark! Long Road students try out Silkeborg GymnasiumTen Long Road students had a chance to experience life as a sixth-form student in Denmark when they visited Silkeborg Gymnasium (sixth form college). Silkeborg, a thriving lakeside town, and current home to the Tollund Man (a body found in a peat bog), is about 30 minutes from Denmark’s second largest city, Aarhus.

Our students stayed with Danish students and their families and quickly integrated into the Danish way of life, including Silkeborg’s cycle-friendly environment. They took part in the Danish timetable and experienced an alternative approach to learning through collaborative activities with an emphasis on presentation skills, which form the basis of Danish education from an early age.

boy! Long road students at aarhus art Museum

Long road and Danish students on walking tour of Silkeborg

Long road students in the rainbow panorama at aarhus Museum

Long road and Danish students at Silkeborg Gymnasium

The gymnasium has 1,400 sixth form students and, similar to Long Road, has a catchment area of about 30 kms. However, Danish sixth formers study six subjects for three years in a very different system. The most striking contrast is the method of assessment as Danish students do not sit public examinations where the culmination of one or two years’ study is decided by timed written answers, which are then marked by external exam boards. Instead the Danes opt for oral exams, or viva voci, and written assessments are usually completed within 24 hours, then marked and standardised by their teachers.

Beyond the classroom, there were two trips for the Danish and Long Road students. One was a walking tour of Silkeborg. The second trip was to the city of Aarhus. Students visited the Museum of Natural History where they listened to a talk on evolution by a Danish scientist in English - an impressive feat indeed! Teachers and students ate lunch at Mackie’s, a quirky Aarhus pizzeria, decorated with signed football shirts and kitsch objects. The highlight however was the world class ARoS, (Modern Art Museum), which houses Denmark’s largest art collection outside of Copenhagen. Our students were particularly fascinated by Olafur Eliasson’s Your rainbow panorama, a spectacular work of art consisting of a 150-metre-long circular walkway in glass in all the colours of the spectrum.

Our Danish friends gave Long Road students and staff alike a memorable experience and an informed and thought-provoking overview of Danish sixth form education. For more Silkeborg links, see page 7.

Tom opens the new Student centre with baFTa award-winning former student rosie ball (left) and Principal christine Sherwin (right)

Tom Horn interviewing nick clegg, Deputy Prime Minister

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English in New York Silkeborg students make two trips to Long Road

Drama mock exams have audience on the edge of their seats

English MasterclassFour students from Silkeborg made a return trip to Long Road for an English Masterclass. They stayed with the families of Long Road students, whom they shadowed throughout a College day. They enjoyed walking around Cambridge – both the historic parts and the shopping centre – and also visited the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Silkeborg offers Masterclasses in several European languages for their top linguists, and Laura, Amanda, Emilie and Sarah explained that there had to be a ballot for the English Masterclass, so they were very lucky to be selected.

Drama AS students gave stunning performances at their mock exams. They performed adapted versions of three plays by Steven Berkoff: East, Greek Play and Metamorphosis.

English A level students joined Film and Media students on the 2014 trip to New York. They visited Long Island and took the train through the site of the ‘Valley of Ashes’, as described in F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Then they went to Sands Point and Great Neck, the locations of East and West Egg in the novel, and looked around two vast, gothic houses on Sands Point, stunning examples of the type of bizarre but magnificent imitation European architecture which Fitzgerald portrays as characterising Gatsby’s mansion.

English students win Cambridge University Press competitionCambridge University Press held an ‘Apprentice’-style competition on World Book Day this year - and the Long Road English A level and GCSE team won!

The competition, which promoted publishing as a career, was to design a product for the new GCSE Computing course. Teacher Zahra Amlani, who accompanied the students, comments on their winning performance:

“Tom Dawson and Josie Melvin showed excellent leadership skills as the commissioning editors. Shauna Wright and Yasmin Lombardi formulated an astute marketing strategy, Gregg Antipuesto displayed creative flair designing a mobile app with multiplayer capability, and Frances Starling and Rhianna Donnelly crunched the numbers to ensure the economic viability of the product.

“The judging panel chose Long Road as the winners against stiff competition. Our students won a £30 book token and received a certificate. They showed ingenuity, business acumen and a great team spirit.”

Photos by student Gaby roos

They also went to the Guggenheim Museum, and Museum of Modern Art, and talked about the development of Modernism, and how it relates to the twentieth century poetry and drama they are studying. A snow blizzard put a stop to a literary walking tour of Brooklyn to see locations used in the writing of Arthur Miller, so they joined Film students on a visit to the Museum of Moving Images instead.

The winning team – left to right: rhianna Donnelly, Frances Starling, Shauna wright, Yasmin Lombardi, Gregg antipuesto, Tom Dawson and Josie Melvin

Danes join English Language A level classA second group of students from Silkeborg also made a trip to Britain to visit London and Cambridge. After visiting Downing College, they came to Long Road to meet up with our students and to take part in two classes, including one in an English Language class. They worked with our students on the origins of English words and the effect of migration on the language.

From left to right (outside the Fitzwilliam): Fiona Middleton, Yasmine white, Laura nielson, amanda Larsen, Emilie Farø and Sarah aaen. not in the pho-to: the third ‘host family’ student Holly barratt.

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Greek PlayMetamorphosis

OPUS at Corn Exchange for Holocaust MemorialThe Performing Arts Level 3 Diploma company, OPUS, took part in the civic ceremony in January at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. To reflect the theme of this year’s memorial day, our students performed a short piece about Kindertransport. The ceremony also included survivor testimonies, songs, readings and dance, and attention was drawn to the role played by Cambridge city in the rescue and welfare of hundreds of refugee children fleeing from Nazi Germany in 1939.

Spring ShowcaseThe Company, Long Road’s Performing Arts group, put on a sparkling and varied show for their Spring Showcase. There were solos from Chicago (Ellis Northrop and Matthew Banks), Cabaret (Lucy Skingle and Tara Geraghty) and Oklahoma (Alex Rawlin), and monologues from Agamemnon (Alix Lawrence), The Merchant of Venice (Kate Gardner and Ben Thurbon), King Lear (Alex Spooner and Tom Thurbon) and, by way of a contrast, Shakers (Emily Banner).

Max Knudsen played the cello for Ravel’s Piece en Forme de Habanera and Aaron Grimwood played a guitar solo: Times Square by Kit Morgan. Performance Studies Course Team Leader Nadine Slade says: “Our congratulations go to the students who performed for their hard work and willingness to participate.

Ellis northrop Emily banner Lucy Skingle Tara Geraghty

Splendid Productions Commedia Dell’Arte workshopSplendid Productions visited Long Road to hold a workshop on Commedia Dell’Arte for our Drama students. Commedia Dell’Arte originated in Venice in the 17th century. It was a form of street theatre with improvised scenes between masters, servants and lovers. The workshop looked at ensemble work, grummelot (a flow of sounds to represent speech), stretching physicality and vocality, clowning and creating stock characters without using masks.

Lauren RussellCongratulations to Lauren Russell, studying A levels in Drama, Performance Studies and English Language and Literature, at winning a place at the East 15 Drama School.

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Photography students test run Fuji camerasLong Road has one of the largest and longest-established A level Photography departments in the country – so who better for Fuji to approach when they wanted up-and–coming photographers to try out and evaluate their cameras? Aurelia Coster, who studies AS Photography at Long Road, showed her photographs to her neighbour, Neale Salisbury, who is Head of Sales Fuji UK. He was so impressed by the quality of her work that he contacted the College with a proposal; to lend our students a range of Fuji cameras to try out and to write reviews for the youth market.

Students were loaned cameras in the X compact SLR range to use for their coursework. In return, they wrote a short, honest review of each camera. The trial, undertaken by 10 students, was a success and a further trial has been arranged to take place in June.

Aurelia commented: “As a student I want to be able to take impulse shots and carry the camera wherever I go. With the Fuji this is easy, as it is light enough to carry comfortably on its neck strap. Operation of the XE2 is great; the switch from one mode to another is seamless so adapting to different light or conditions is a quick and painless exercise.”

Martin Salmon, Photography teacher, says: “This is a brilliant opportunity for our students to try out these high quality cameras, and demonstrates the high quality of work in the department.”

This is just the start of an excellent summer of Photography. Over the coming weeks the department is hosting a series of events designed to get students thinking about their options after Long Road. Martin has arranged for four professionals to come and talk to students who want to pursue their passion for Photography.

The visitors include representatives from prestigious universities, London College of Communication and Norwich University of the Arts, who will offer insights into what their courses are looking for from applicants, as well as explaining how to prepare for interviews.

Representing the student’s point of view will be ex-Long Road student Liam Magee, who is taking a BA in Fine Art Photography at Camberwell College of Art.

Ed Lovelace, film-maker, back at the CollegeEd Lovelace, who studied Film Studies. Media Studies and History A levels, spoke to a packed audience when he came back to Long Road to talk about his career as a film-maker. Ed’s film The Possibilities are Endless, a documentary about musician Edwyn Collins, was screened at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, and received glowing reviews from The Guardian newspaper, amongst others.

Ed says of his time at Long Road: “It was amazing. It was the time when I watched the most films, and was encouraged to explore different directors and different types of filmmaking.”

Art and Design Level 3 students inspired by Kettle’s YardArt and Design Level 3 Diploma students visited the Kettle’s Yard Museum in Cambridge to inspire their artwork.

Student Adam Prescott says: “It gave me a new perspective on displaying and viewing art. They change their themes every few months so there is a lot of variety of work to view. The atmosphere of the house is inspirational. ”

Rowan Bailey adds: “We had an opportunity to go around the house and the gallery, and I extended my knowledge of different painting techniques.”

Textiles students visit Isabella Blow exhibition

Where better to find inspiration than through the work of Isabella Blow, who during her thirty-year career worked at The Tatler and Vogue as Fashion Director? Design Technology Textiles students visited Somerset House to see Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!. The exhibition included over a hundred pieces from her private collection.

Freddie Wright and Abigail Loosemore on BFI National Film and Television School coursesAbigail Loosemore (Film, Media Studies and English Literature A levels) and Freddie Wright (Media, Art and Photography A levels), were selected to take part in highly competitive courses at the National Film and Television School at Easter.

“I was on the screenwriting course,” explains Abigail. “My story was a thriller about a group of young people at a country house with theme of desire for acceptance and corrupted innocence. We’ll be sending copies to film festivals to see if it is accepted for screening, and to get others’ creative input.”

aurelia coster’s photograph using the Fuji XE2

abigail (centre) receives her certificate from nik Powell, one of the co-founders of the Virgin Group and director of the nFTS, and amanda nevill, cEo of the bFI

Freddie, who took the Editing course at the nFTS, receives his certificate

common houseplants 2013 by Liam Magee

DT textiles students outside Somerset House

GCSE students visit IMAX

Art and Design Level 3 students design hoardings

How better to celebrate the end of a successful year with a trip to London? Our GCSE Humanities pathway students started off at the Science Museum and then went to the BFI IMAX cinema to see The Amazing Spiderman 2.

Art and Design Level 3 Diploma students were commissioned by construction company BAM to design hoardings representing the life of Cambridge and the River Cam. These will be on view at the entrance to the College site.

Freddie wright at the nFTS

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Radiography talk inspires Science studentsLucy Swain and Sam Whyte from the Department of Radiology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital met our Science students to talk about careers in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiography.

Lucy works in Diagnostic Radiography, which involves CT, MRI and ultrasound as well as 2D x-rays. She talked about radiation safety, putting it into context with background radiation.

Chemistry students at workAs part of A level Chemistry, our students have an opportunity to work on their own projects. Here are some of our students at work.

Elliott Springthorpe investigating catalysis of the reaction between hydrogen peroxide and potassium sodium tartrate with cobalt ions

aaya al-Hadd – investigating the reaction of magnesium with different acids

Emmanuel adu synthesising aspirin in three steps from methyl anthranilate and analysing the products of each step by thin layer chromatography

all the students at work

Emma RileyEmma is taking Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and is going to the University of Plymouth –to study Mechanical Engineering with Composites.

Sergio Azizi Sergio has offers to study Mechanical or Aeronautic Engineering at Southampton, Nottingham and Warwick universities. He is studying Maths, Further Maths and Physics at A level.

Hollie Pownall-AndersonHollie is going to study Veterinary Medicine at Nottingham University. She is studying for A levels in Biology, Chemistry and Economics.

George Mortimer George is going to study Computer Science at York, Imperial College, Bath or Bristol. He is studying Maths, Further Maths and Computing.

Sam works in Therapeutic Radiography and described how radiography is used to treat cancerous tumours and how the process is planned and delivered. She explained that radiography has a good success rate and has fewer side effects than chemotherapy. She explained the use of concrete, lead-lined ‘bunkers’ with double-turn corridors to protect staff administering doses of radiation to patients. These doses are up to a million times stronger than that used in CT scans or normal x-rays.

Lucy and Sam then talked about career opportunities in radiography and what qualifications you might need to study Radiography at university. However, they stressed that personality is of key importance, especially when supporting patients and their families.

Whodunnit? Level 2 Applied Science students are on the caseThere’s been a break-in at Long Road! Fortunately, not really: as part of the Level 2 Applied Science unit “Investigating a crime scene”, students are required to demonstrate the most appropriate methods to record, collect and preserve the evidence.

As part of a team of scene of crime officers (SOCOs), students examined the science laboratory where the break-in occurred in minute detail looking for evidence. Their brief was to find hair and fibres and place them in bags; dust and lift fingerprints; look for fluids or powder; and examine what might be additional evidence.

Science teacher Deborah Giveen had cleverly planted evidence for the students to find both near an open window and elsewhere in the laboratory: fingerprints, a white substance, various hair samples and a footprint outside.

Then there was a news flash – a suspect had been arrested. Police took shoes, the suspect’s shirt (which had a fine dusting of white powder and hairs on it), three pens from her trouser pocket, a hair sample, fingerprints and a torn piece of paper for students – now forensic scientists – to analyse and compare with the samples found by the SOCOs… so who’s the guilty person?

analysing shoes

bagging the evidence

Dusting fingerpintsPlaster cast of footprint

Granta Park firm TWI works with A level Physics on bridge construction materialsMatthew Haslett from TWI in Granta Park visited the College to assess bridge construction materials with AS Physics students. The students were also involved in assessing the parameters and working through the calculations that a design engineer would complete when deciding on the materials and sizes required to meet the design brief for a bridge.

Matthew is a mechanical engineer with TWI and carries out engineering assessments of structures including failure analysis of oil and gas pipelines, oil rigs, bridges, cranes and vehicles such as oil tankers.

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A chance to put politicians on the spot

Long Road Basketball Academy ‘Lions’ has best season ever

Local and national politicians frequently visit Long Road, and in the run-up to the 2015 election, students who will be eligible to vote will be able to prepare some tricky questions for the candidates. Cambridge MP Julian Huppert met both Level 2 Media Diploma and Politics A level students when he visited the College this spring, whilst former Labour party cabinet John Denham MP visited the College with Cambridge Labour Party candidate Daniel Zeichner. John Denham is a member of the All Parliamentary Sixth Form College Group, and was also interested to meet Level 2 students and face questions from A level Politics students.

Politics students also visited Westminster recently. They were given a tour of the Houses of Parliament by Julian Huppert and then visited the Supreme Court in Parliament Square.

Pete Charlwood, team coach, reports:“Although we didn’t quite meet all our goals this year we have still had the most successful year that a Long Road Squad has achieved, surpassing last season. We came second in the BCS Performance Tier Division 1 East Conference, reached the National Quarter Finals of the BCS Performance Tier National Cup, got through to the last 16 of the U19 EBBA National Schools Competition and reached the quarter finals of the U18 EBBA National Schools Competition. What’s more: the Development squad was the winner of the Cambridgeshire U19 District Competition for the third year in a row.”

The squad also visited the University of Essex to learn about their new Basketball Performance Programme.

John Denham talks to Level 2 Media student connor cotterill

John Denham and Daniel Zeichner with Politics students

Julian Huppert with Politics students

Politics students at westminster

Josh WadeJosh Wade is going to study Sociology at the University of Essex. Josh is taking A levels in Politics, Philosophy and Sociology.

College hulas for Sport ReliefBoth students and staff demonstrated amazing hula-hooping skills as part of the fundraising drive for Sport Relief this year. The winner was April Oliver, who was still going after one hour and only stopped because she wanted to eat her lunch! A total of £360 was raised.

april oliver, the star hula hooper charlie Gladman, who hula hooped for ten minutes

There was also a Sport relief table tennis tournament

Paintball!Level 2 Sport students along with netball and basketball team members, went to Combat Paintball in Thetford for their end of year celebration.

The Lions at the University of Essex

Elliott AldhouseElliott Aldhouse, who has been studying PE, Business Studies and Psychology A levels, has been offered a place at Texas Wesleyan University on a four-year degree programme in Business Management and a place on their football team, ‘The Texas Rams’.

Mohammed AliyuMohammed Aliyu, PE, Sociology and Business Studies A level student will be studying Sports Business Management at the University of Leeds after Long Road.

Rebecca ShawCongratulations to Rebecca Shaw, who competed in the trampolining section of the British Colleges National Championships in Bath. Rebecca came an excellent 11th out of 46, and the East trampoline team came second overall.

Seb PetticanCongratulations to Seb Pettican, who competed in the swimming section of the British Colleges National Championships in Bath. Seb just missed out on the finals of the 50m sprint butterfly, and his freestyle relay team came second. Seb, who trains at Parkside Pools and is a member of the City of Cambridge Swimming Club, also competes in the 50m backstroke.

Sumo wrestlers take to the floorSport Level 3 students have to organise a fundraising event as part of their course – so what better way to raise money than through a sumo wrestling competition? To keep up the wrestlers’ energy levels, there was also a cake stall – and there was also a futsal competition. The money raised went to Cancer Research UK.

Jake Picton and Jonathan Grieves on the offensive

will they able to get up again?

The fundraising team: chris cochrane, Jack campbell, april oliver, Dylan Doggett and kayleigh Gamble

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Hold the front page! History students at The GuardianHistory students visited The Guardian newspaper in London to research, write and edit an newspaper front page on race relations and the fight for civil rights in the USA during the 1950s and 1960s. They used news reports from the paper’s archives, biographies of major characters, transcripts of key speeches and legislation, information files on important organisations, and photographs of relevant places, people and events.

The students chose three events, organisations, characters or themes to write about such as the Montgomery bus boycott; the crisis at Little Rock; the race riots of 1967; Martin Luther King; Thurgood Marshall; Governor Orville Faubus; the various Civil Rights Acts; desegregation of schools and universities; non-violent resistance; Black Power.

Working to a tight deadline, they also chose their own page layout, placed pictures of their choice on the page, edited their reports, wrote the headlines, designed a masthead, and printed their paper.

History students attend conference on StalinHistory students attended a conference at City Temple, Holburn, on the Stalin era in the USSR. The event consisted of four short lectures by top historians.

“The lectures were informative and interesting,” says student Eleanor Evans. “Dr Robert Hornsby’s lecture was particularly useful in clarifying my knowledge of Stalin’s involvement in WW2.”

“I found the lecture on the Second World War and the Eastern front inspirational,” adds James Popple-Beckett. “It featured a great deal of detail about the German and Russian struggle.”

“The trip was excellent: not only did it increase my knowledge, but it also gave me a taste of what a real university lecture would be like,” concludes Meghan Brannigan.

Cath Carpenter, History teacher, comments: “The lecture day was an ideal opportunity for students to experience university-style teaching and learning. It has inspired the students to develop their own skills of analysis and interpretation.”

Hannah Spraggs, Eleanor Evans, James Popple-beckett and David Few, some of the students who attended the conference

How to befriend a tarantula

Heights? Snakes? Lifts? Spiders? Many people are a little wary of some of these, but some people suffer from full-blown phobias. To find out more about these responses and how to overcome them, Psychology students

visited London Zoo to meet a phobia expert. While there, they underwent a form of hypnosis and then met the star turn, a tarantula!

catherine Mannix makes a new friend

Saffron in SegoviaSaffron Carter visited Segovia for her Spanish A level work experience placement.

“I was lucky enough to work in a branch of Adolfo Dominguez - he is the famous Spanish fashion designer. This was my first visit to mainland Spain, and I spoke Spanish all the time to staff in the shop and to customers. You are really put on the spot and have to respond to questions immediately, so it was an excellent way of improving my fluency. I stayed in a hotel with other British students, and in our spare time we ate churros and tortillas, visited the famous aquaduct, went shopping and went to the cinema – I could more or less follow the plot! I can’t recommend doing work experience in Spain enough: it will really help me with my career goal of working in the travel industry – I am planning to take Travel Management and Spanish, plus Italian, at university.”

Students gain business know-how from Enactus projectBusiness Level 2 and Level 3 Diploma students have taken part in an Enactus project with four students from the University of Cambridge.

Enactus is an international non-profit organization that works with leaders in business and higher education to help university students to make a difference in their communities.

The four university students worked with our students on business start-ups. Level 2 students set up a tuck shop, while the Level 3 students divided themselves in two groups, one selling cakes and cookies and the other chocolate eggs.

The winning team, ‘Tuck Shop’, alex rose, James cahill and basil nawash, receive their trophy from christine Sherwin, Principal

Jess AndersonCongratulations to Jess Anderson, who has gained a place as a trainee accountant at Ensors. Jess is taking Business Studies, Use of Maths and PE A levels.

The winning team, which made the most profit, was the Tuck Shop. There were also individual certificates of achievement: Alex Rose and James Cahill for excellent team management, and Basil Nawash, Sophie Detchon and Fraser Hyde for their very valued contributions.

Business Level 2 Diploma student Queen Macaulay says:” I found the project very interesting - it was engaging and fun at the same time. It was all about teamwork, which is extremely important.”

ICT News – from London to MauritiusICT A level and Level 3 Diploma students visited the BETT (British Educational Training and Technology Show) exhibition at ExCel in London to visit nearly 700 IT exhibits.

Representatives from the Mauritius Ministry of Education visited the College with staff from the OCR examination board to talk to our Level 3 Diploma students, who take the Cambridge Technicals IT course. The Mauritian government is considering introducing this course and wanted to see it being taught.

IcT students Jessica Lombardi, Marie coret and aimee kennedy at bETT

Thomas adams, student, shows the Mauritian visitors his work on the cambridge Technical in IT

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Key Dates for 2014June 30th: Open morning for students who are holding offers August 21st: GCSE exam results published

August 28th & 29th: Enrolment for new students joining the College

September 5th: Lessons start