Easter

Another end to another term - it's been a long one, as Easter falls so late this year, so staff and students are ready for a break, to rest, rejuvinate and REVISE! Two weeks off, then two more weeks of lessons, then the AS exams begin! So while we teachers are planning some great lessons to help students be fully prepared for the exams with their writing techniques, the students - AS and A2 alike - will be revising everything over the break.

So, once we come back after Easter, there are lessons in May, then that's virtually it for another year!

Unlike some schools which force students to come back to 4 or even 6 weeks of lessons after the exams, we give our students more freedom. Our students will come back for just a week after the exams, when we do an introduction to A2, a trip to Alton Towers, and start UCAS applications.

But for now, it's just Easter, none of that excitement just yet. But it's interesting becuase we are interviewing lots of potential students over the holiday period, which is an enjoyable process. It's good for us to meet a few of the people we'll be teaching in September, and good for our future students to meet us, so that when they arrive for Enrolment, there are a few familiar faces. :D

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A Level and Applied Business students visit Meadowhall

Loughborough College A Level and Applied Business students visited  Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield on Tuesday 5^th April 2011. Here are some of the comments from the students...

“Truly blew my socks off! The talk was informative and enabled me to see some of the theory in practice at such a large organisation. I really enjoyed the trip.”  - Jake McEnery (AS Business)

“I enjoyed the trip, it was fun! The conference was really informative and interesting and covered all the topics we learn in class. Moreover, the shopping was excellent! Plus it’s always nice to have a day off.” Dany Panus (AS Business)

“I think the trip was beneficial, not only from the point of view of learning, but also for bonding with class peers and lecturers. The conference was easy to understand, and interesting; putting our knowledge into a context.” Cornelia Musteata (AS Business)

Science at the Space Centre

In March, a group of ten AS and A2 Physics students spent a day in the Space Centre in Leicester.

We launched paper rockets, which go nearly 100 metres:

 

  

We made model asteroids out of dry ice

We looked at ourselves on Infra-Red cameras.

Not to mention handling a sample of rock from a meteorite from Mars, and watching a flilm in the biggest planetarium in the UK - and we also managed to learn quite a lot of science.

Parents' Evening

It was the A-Level Parents' Evening yesterday; thankfully, there was no snow, like there was last time! It's always nice to speak to the parents of students who you teach, and it can give us teachers another way of understanding where our students are coming from.

Because we tend to prefer a more relaxed atmosphere (compared to schools) the majority of parents come along with the students themselves, and it's great when parents, students and teachers are all 'singing from the same hymn sheet'.

It's only six weeks now until the AS exams start (how did it happen so fast?!), so all the students are trying to make sure they are prepared nice and early so they can get the very best grade they're capable of.