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Contents2 Lucy Skaer /

Morley MemorialSchool websiteproject

3 Meet some of ourhigh-achievingstudents

4 Creative & MediaFestival

5 Channel 4Inspiration Week /New York trip

6 Cambridge ScienceFestival Talks

7 Bottle your genes

8 Work experience,here and abroad

9 Careers event

10 Three Olympicssites / Dragon’sDen

11 Rugby team inMalta /Geographers tryout town planning

12 EqualityChampions /Blood donors

13 Lessons fromAuschwitz

14 Comic relief /Basketball stars /Pantomime stars

15 News from formerstudents

Long Road Sixth FormCollege

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When Michael Catchpool, Headteacherof Morley Memorial Primary Schooldecided it was time to update the schoolwebsite, he approached Long Road forhelp with photography.Martin Salmon, Photography teacher,

offered the assignment to A2 studentsYasmine Najib and William Speak, andhere are the results.Michael Catchpool comments: “ As a

school, we really appreciate the chanceto work with others in the localcommunity, so a project involvingstudents from Long Road Sixth FormCollege seemed an exciting proposition.“Will and Yasmin’s brief was to ‘capture

life at Morley’. They took all manner ofpictures – not only of the children but also

the architecture of the school itself.“The professional and conscientious

way that Will and Yasmin worked meantthat their presence and the work theywere doing was much appreciated. Thewonderful collection of photographs theyproduced was much more than we hadever imagined and many of the picturestake a prominent place in the pages ofour new website.“Given the very positive partnership

that was established through this websiteproject, we look forward to the possibilityof working with Long Road in the futureon further exciting ventures.”

Yasmine (top right) took the colourphotographs featured; William (bottom right)the black and white ones

Yasmine Najib and William Speak work on websitephotography project with Morley Memorial School

A group of our high-achieving studentshave just received their certificates forpassing an Open University course inaddition to their A level or Diplomastudies. Senior Tutor Richard Skelding,says: "Taking these coursesdemonstrates students' ability to workat a higher education level as well asthe self-discipline and self-motivationrequired to work independently.Courses taken included Maths for

Science, Shakespeare, Start WritingFiction and How the Universe Works.Our students' future plans includestudying Creative Writing at WarwickUniversity, Engineering Mathematics atBristol University and Mathematics atUCL.From left: Vicky Kam, Senior Tutor RichardSkelding, Shawn Cohen, Kirsty Judge,David Haines and Joanna Howe. Not in thephotograph: Hannah Downing, KimberleyGreed, Thomas Simper and CharlotteSawford

High-achieving students pass Open University courses

Year 13 student James Kenzie produced an extremelydetailed and comprehensive assignment for the"Nutrition for Sport and Exercise" Unit in the SportNational Diploma. This Distinction-level work wasrecognised by Sports Teacher, Nigel Ballard, and abound colour-printed copy of the assignment waspresented to James by Principal Sandra Hamilton-Fox.

Sandra commented: "The work was extremely well-researched,appropriately referenced and very professionally presented."

Congratulations toYear 12 studentJacob Hammond(right) on winning thecompetition to designthe poster for thisyear’s StrawberryFair, which took placein May.

Matthew decided to create arobot for his project.“I love robots!” he explains. “I’ve designed robots beforeand have been interested inrobotic engineering for a longtime.”

Matthew’s robot crawls around the floor. Whenit encounters an obstacle, it can work out wherethe obstacle is and what action it needs to take tocarry on.“Matthew is a very talented programmer,”

comments his teacher, Computing Course TeamLeader Sue Sentence. “Apart from designing therobot itself, he has also produced a program toprovide visual feedback of where the robot is.”

Computing students push the boundaries on their project workComputing students have to complete a project as part of their coursework, with database design proving a popularoption. Two very talented programers who decided to try a different approach are Mihail Krastev and Matthew James.

Mihail has written a program to helpapply further mathematics to

computing coursework. Maths andFurther Maths Course Team leader

Stephen Warr explains: “Theprogram that Mike has written usesthe mathematics we have studied todraw different lines and planes and

also to rotate the shapes on thescreen. Mike learned how to applyhis work on matrices and advanced

vector methods to describe therotation of objects.”

Above: Stephen(left) and Mihail(right).Background:Mihail’s programon screen

Congratulations to Lucy SkaerWe are delighted to report that former Art A level student LucySkaer has been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize and herwork will be exhibited at the Tate Modern this autumn.

Top: Lucy Skaer. Above: an example of Lucy’s work at Long Road.Background: “Siege”, displayed at Doggerfisher gallery in Edinburgh

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Creative and MediaFestival celebratesoutstanding first yearCambridge Creative and Media students staged afestival to showcase their work during the first year ofthe Diploma course.A series of screenings and displays took place at

the Arts Picturehouse, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU)and Homerton College.The festival started with a screening to a specially-

invited audience and reception at ARU.The following day, children from Arbury and Foxton

Primary Schools, who had worked on animations withfour of our Level 2 students, came to see their workon the silver screen.Secondary school students then had a chance to

see their work feature. The festival wound up with aconference at Homerton for teachers from otherDiploma consortia around the country.“This was an excellent opportunity for our students

to see how far they have progressed over the year,”comments Director of Learning and Creative andMedia Course Team Leader Pete Fraser.“The students had to plan, promote and deliver the

conference themselves, dealing with a wide range ofpeople, including, of course, the Media!”

The Creative and Media Diploma is a new course,available at different levels at Long Road, CambridgeRegional College, Parkside Federation andChesterton Community College. It offers opportunitiesto make actual media products and develop highlevels of skill in the field of media production.

Pictured above: Long Road Level 2 Creative and Mediastudents Lois Edwards, Alison Murphy, Angelica Thomsonand Zoe Rushforth with Serena Ramjee from ArburyPrimary School and Adam Baxter from Foxton PrimarySchoolLeft: A selection of pages from the festival brochure,designed and produced by students.

Creative and Media studentTara Cox (above, inset) wasdelighted to be selected forthe Channel 4 InspirationWeek this spring.

“Channel 4 recently offered afantastic opportunity toCreative and Media students.We had to provide a writtenapplication stating why wewould like to work in themedia industry and what wewould bring to Channel 4. Fiveof us applied and were invitedto an open day. It proved to bea fantastic opportunity to learnabout the media industry, andwe had a chance to meet andlearn from various industryprofessionals such asjournalists, presenters,scriptwriters, and experts innew media.“At the end of the day, we

had to apply for InspirationWeek itself, and a few of uswere lucky enough to be

accepted. I particularly enjoyed the second day, which was basedon your chosen workshop, such as journalism and presenting. Ichose journalism (which was based at The Guardian) and we setto work on our front page newspaper, selecting the stories towrite, the layout and the headings. At the end of the day, we weregive our front pages to take home. I thought this was a fantasticpiece of work to take to future employers, as it shows I havevaluable experience in journalism.

Channel 4Inspiration Week

Top: outside Channel 4Middle: the Channel 4 cafeteriaBottom: Tara’s front page

Film and Photographystudents in New York

Forty-one Film and Photography students visiteda rather wet New York this Easter for an action-packed study tour. Film Course Team LeaderBarney Oram reports:“On the itinerary were the Empire State Building, theMuseum of the Moving Image, Ice skating at theRockefeller Center, walking over the BrooklynBridge, Times Square (see cover photo), The NaturalHistory Museum, ICP (International Center ofPhotography) and MoMa (Museum of Modern Art).Once back in this country, the Photography

students were able to put their work to good use asthey went straight into their examinations.Examples of their work can be seen on:

www.flickr.com/photos/longroadphotography

“I loved all the films we went to see, ones we’d neverget a chance to see on a big screen back home.”

Alice Monteath Year 12 Film Studies

“It’s been a great way to end a really good two yearswith Long Road Photography” Martha Glass Year 13

Photography

“I really loved the film choices. Thank you to everyonewho made the trip possible, it was amazing!”

Lisette Cooke Year 12 Film Studies

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Talks tie in with Cambridge Science FestivalTo celebrate the Cambridge Science Festival, LongRoad Science and Technology department invitedfour constrasting speakers to talk to our students.

Andrew Pontzen (left), Institute of Astronomy, soon hadhis audience pondering the fuzzy world of quantummechanics. Are we made of random quantumfluctuations? Are there many different versions of ourbrain in existence at the same time? Why do thingschange when we try to measure them? Do quantumobjects communicate instantly over any distance?

Any overheated brains then had a chance to cool downwith Chester Sands, Molecular Phylogeneticist at theBritish Antarctic Survey (below left). Chester talked aboutthe weird and wonderful life forms found in the highest,driest and windiest continent. These include sea spiders,giant sponges, nematodes and tardigrades as well asfish whose built-in antifreeze helps them cope with waterat -1.8 degrees Celcius. Students then had a chance toinspect the supplies needed for polar exploration (lots ofchocolate!) and try on some gear (below left and far left).

A different kind of freezing was in store for students atAndrew Styling and Alex Jackson’s talk. Andrew andAlex work at the Radiography department atAddenbrooke’s Hospital. Andrew demonstrated on abrave student how Plaster of Paris is used to make amould for a plastic immobiliation cast (below left and farleft). These casts, of the relevant body part, ensure thatthe patient ‘freezes’ while carefully-targeted radiotherapytakes place. Alex then went on to explain the diagnosticside of the department, Even though they work withcancer patients, both men stressed that their daily workis cheerful and positive: so many people can besuccessfully treated for cancer nowadays. Even workingwith children can be enjoyable: Alex said that he had x-rayed countless teddy bears in order to reassure smallchildren that the process would be easy and painless.

Our final speaker was Drew Purves of the ComputationalEcology and Environmental Science Group at MicrosoftResearch (bottom left). Drew explained howcomputational power can be used to address three majorissues: curing cancer, halting global disease outbreaksand preventing dangerous climate change. He explainedhow computers can be used to research underlyingcauses and suggest possible solutions to theseproblems. Looking at the the formation of cancer cells,he demonstrated a computer model of how pancreaticcells are formed from the duodenum.However, and more worryingly, one of the main

themes of his talk was the shortage of computerscientists in the world today, just as we become everymore dependent on computer power.

Bottle your genes! Biologystudents run hands-on exhibit atScience Festival

Visitors to the Cambridge ScienceFestival were able to take home theirgenes in a bottle, thanks to our ASBiology students. Working alongsidePGCE students from the Faculty ofEducation at Homerton College, ourstudents took members of the publicthrough the process, then presentedthem with their very own geneticsouvenir.

Above from left: Chris Graham (LongRoad Biology teacher), DanielleRedhead (PGCE student), Alice Tome-Fernandez and Freya HermanLeft: Freya with two small scientistsBelow left: James Ord with two moreyoung scientists

How to bottle your genes(Student Ho-Wai Lam explains,photographed right)

1. Get cells from your cheek with acotton bud.2. Add cells to lysis buffer andprotease.3. Incubate for 10 minutes at 50oC.4. Cool down and add ice coldethanol.5. Watch your DNA appear as awhite layer in the test tube. Becareful not to shake the tube.

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8 course news course news 9Wide range of companies and organisations exhibit at Careers Event

“This year’s Careers Event was the bestever,” says Head of Careers at Long Road,Andy Goodwin. “We are very grateful to thecompanies and organisations who came totell our students about the the range of postA-level / Diploma, gap year and post-graduateopportunities they offer.” Andy Goodwin

Exhibitors

National and multinationalcompanies

British Telecommunications (a):Crowne Plaza (r):Deloitte & Touche (j):John Lewis (b):Kids Unlimited(f):Premier Training (s):

Gap Year specialists

Frontier (v)Project Trust (l)Year in Industry (h)Worldwide Volunteering (i)

Addenbrooke’s

General opportunities in theNHS (q)Medical Physics & ClinicalEngineering (e)Radiography(p)

Armed Forces and Police

British Army (u)Royal Air Force (c)Royal Navy (n)Police Community Support (o)

Cambridgeshire CountyCouncil

Social Services (g)Children and Young PeopleService (t)Connexions (k)

Other educational institutions

Cambridge Regional College (d)West Suffolk College (m)

Work experienceOur students undertake a wide variety of workexperience placements. Here are two examples

Alice Garbutt, Granta School, LintonAlice Garbutt, Health and Social CareNational Diploma, enjoyed a highlysuccessful work placement at the GrantaSchool in Linton.“I have always wanted to work with

children, “she explains. “I hadn’tconsidered working with children withspecial needs before though.”

During her time at the Granta School, which caters forchildren with specific learning difficulties, Alice workedone-to-one and two-to-one with autistic children.“I helped them with PE, cooking and Maths. The

experience make me realise that this is what I would liketo do in the future.”The Granta School was so impressed with Alice that

her placement co-ordinator wrote her a special letter ofcommendation. Alice is hoping to study Early Yearseducation and / or teaching children with disabilities atuniversity.

David Lodge, La Tête de l’Art, Lille“Five French AS students took part ina work experience trip to Lille thisEaster. We all had very differentplacements in shops, factories anddog grooming parlours, amongstothers – I worked in a restaurant, LaTête de l’Art. It was very daunting atfirst, but after the first day we all really

enjoyed it. I found the trip improved my confidence, andI learned lots of new everydayvocabulary. Serving customers wasquite a challenge, but the staff werereally helpful (even with my countlessmistakes!). It’s especially useful if, likeme, you want to study French atuniversity.“The accommodation was basic,

but Lille is a beautiful city, so most ofour free time was spent exploring:here are some of my photographs.One evening, our group supervisors

took us to a “Marcel etson Orchestre” concert,which was surprisinglygood! Everybody got onreally well, and despite afew minor hiccups, thetrip was great fun.”

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Geography students visit2010 Olympics siteA group of AS Geography studentsvisited the London 2012 Olympicsite as part of their rebrandingfieldwork. They examined howinvestment can regenerate an area,improve its image and help attractnew business.

Long Road students past and present visit three Olympics sites

Tom Griffithsphotographs BeijingParalympicsFormer Photography studentTom Griffiths had a chance toattend the Beijing 2008Paralympic Games with topphotographer, and formerParalympic participant GrahamBool. The resultingphotographs were on display atSaffron Walden library thisspring.The assignment was a

challenge for Tom and fellowyoung photographer RogerBool and London-basedGeorge S Blonsky. They hadto pit their wits against theworld’s leading news andpicture agencies as well asgrappling with an unfamiliarlanguage and culture andassorted technical hitches.“We were very pleased to

hear about Tom’s assignment,”says Photography CourseTeam Leader AndreaNorrington. “Not only did it helpto promote a great sportingevent, but also it demonstratesthe wide range of photographicopportunities available today.”

Leisure Studiesstudents visitBarcelona

Leisure Studies students recentlywent on a study tour to Barcelona.Their brief was to make a DVD of

the leisure industry in the city whichcould be distributed to other Leisure

Studies departments around thecountry. While there they visited

Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia and ParcoGuell as well as the marina, the

Olympic Village (pictured) and theAquarium.

At the Sagrada Familia (left)

Business Studies enters the Dragon’s DenBusiness Studies students had a chance to experience theDragon’s Den first hand when they attended a School Enterpriseconference at the Perse School. They came up with twobusiness ideas: a bespoke wedding cake design company andan on-line teenage clothing designer, and although they didn’tmake it through to the final, they enjoyed a fascinating day at theconference meeting entrepreneurs.Business Studies Course Team Leader Alan Dixon

comments: “One of the highlights of the day was listening topeople who have built up their own successful businesses. Welearned a tremendous amount listening to John Hudgell of theAlimentum restaurant on Hills Road and Tristram Mayhew ofGo-Ape.”

Our AS Geography students had a chance to assess a prospective (but fictional) housing development at aplanning day organised by ConstructionSkills and funded by Aim Higher. Students took the role of different interestgroups, including a council Planning Department, constructors and potential residents, to consider issues rangingfrom infrastructure (transport and utilities) to amenities (schools and community areas) to the existing community(whether to build on the village green!) to the welfare of a butterfly colony.The day started with a presentation by Terry Gilbert of the Royal Town Planning Institute on current and forthcomingdevelopments in Cambridge. This was followed by mini-presentations by ‘Construction Ambassadors’, whose role isto promote the interesting career opportunities in their industry. These included planners, civil engineers andarchitectural technologists as well as design co-ordinators, quantity surveyors and site managers from constructioncompany Willmott Dixon and its social and affordable housing subsidiary Inspace. The Construction Ambassadorsthen acted as consultants to our groups of students, who prepared and then presented their cases.“This was an excellent way of bringing the planning process to life,” comments Geography Course Team LeaderSarah Graham, who arranged the day. “Our students also thoroughly enjoyed meeting the ConstructionAmbassadors and welcomed the chance to find out more about all the opportunities in planning and construction.”

Geography students examine the planning process

Long Road Rugby Team takes Malta by storm

The Long Road Rugby Team’s first overseas trip was aresounding success with three conclusive wins.“This was a great experience for our students,” comments

Sport Hall Manager and tour leader Kramer Ronaki. Sportteacher Peter Charlwood was also on hand, as wasGeography and History teacher David Olocco.

Long Road 50 - 0 AlligatorsLong Road 80 - 5 FalconsLong Road 82 - 0 Malta U19s

Player of the Tour: Charlie LittlefairMost Improved Player: Ben ScullionTop Try Scorer: Adam Hodgkisson

Terry Gilbert briefs one of the groups Geography teacher DougLevine with students

Long Road wore an orange strip for the tour: Malta is in the dark strip

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History students Laura Swinglerand Natasha Lamb were selectedto represent Long Road SixthForm College on the Lessonsfrom Auschwitz project. Theproject, which is separated intofour sections, or journeys, isdesigned to demonstrate tostudents the horrors of theHolocaust and teach them aboutthe extreme consequences whicharise from discrimination. For thefourth and final part of the project,students are then expected todisseminate what they havelearnt to the wider community.This moving, and at timesdistressing, article, fulfils part ofLaura and Natasha’s brief.

On our first journey we went to anorientation seminar in Nottingham.The seminar introduced us to the lifeof Jews before the Holocaust. Welearned about an average Jewishperson’s life through the use ofphotographs similar to those in ourown photo albums. We then came torealise that the lives of millions ofpeople, who were murderedbecause of one man’s inhumanity,were not so different from our own.During the seminar, two Holocaustsurvivors told their almostunbelievable story. Ibi and Val wereleading two normal Jewish. One daythey were both tricked into whatcould have been their death. Ibi’sstory was emotionally told, and welistened intently to her near-deathexperiences at Auschwitz. We thendeparted and prepared ourselves forthe life-changing journey to thedeath camp.On 24th March we landed in

Krakow, Poland. We first went to thetown of Oswienciem (the Polishname for Auschwitz) with datedscenery that conjured up a war-likeatmosphere, and visited the pre-warJewish cemetery. This had beendestroyed by Nazi soldiers andrecently vandalised again by anti-Semites. It was almost unbelievable

to think that nearly 70% of thepopulation of Oswiencien hadpreviously been Jewish. After thewar only one determined survivorreturned to his home.We then went to Auschwitz I, the

original concentration camp forprisoners of war. We were stunnedby some of the horrors wesaw. Separate buildingswhere the prisoners werekept, later joined bygypsies, Jews, disabledpeople and many otherminority groups, containedeveryday items confiscatedon the day of arrival suchas artificial limbs, children’sclothes, 40,000 shoes and vastamounts of human hair. We thenwent to the prison cells whereMendler brutally experimented onthe striped-uniformed prisoners, whowere treated like caged animals.Unexpectedly, we were taken into anoriginal gas chamber wherethousands were gassed. Theshocking emotions we experiencedwere indescribable.Five minutes away was Auschwitz

II, the larger extermination andconcentration camp that was builtbecause of the smell ofrotting bodies and the lackof space at Auschwitz I. Wewalked under the notoriousarchway under whichprisoners were taken by railat the time when Auschwitzwas in operation. Thisarchway represented theseparation between life anddeath. To the right, therewere many woodenbuildings which would have hadhundreds of cramped men sleepingin freezing conditions. One of thebuildings we entered was thewashroom made of holes in theground and a dripping tap whichthey could use once a day. The otherside of the railway was where thewomen slept in very squalidconditions. As we walked towardsthe far side, Kanada, region ofAuschwitz II, we passed the ruins ofburnt down gas chambers andashes of thousands of people whowere perished. The final building

was powerfully emotional as it stillhad the original flooring where 65years ago prisoners stoodunknowingly awaiting their death.The building was separated intothree rooms where they werestripped naked, their hair wasshaved off and they were washed

like animals. This reflectedIbi’s story. There was not abird in the sky or insect onthe ground. Auschwitz IIwas simply a land of deathand murder. Finally we hada moving memorial wherea rabbi sang a serviceexpressing theincomprehensible

sufferings that happened during theHolocaust, and we each lit and laid acandle on the railway.After recovering from the

emotional and unforgettable day werealised how difficult it would be toexplain to our family and friends theimpact our visit to Auschwitz had onus. Our third journey began as wereflected on our personalexperiences at the death camp at afollow-up seminar. Many students,including ourselves, were still inshock and could not put into words

what we felt during our dayat Auschwitz. Hundreds offacts, figures andmemories were engravedonto our minds, and thelesson of Auschwitz wasone not to be forgotten.However, the project

most importantlydemonstrated more thanhistory and death. Itshowed the happiness of

life before the Holocaust and howlife has confidently been rebuilt sincethose merciless acts.took place . Butof most of all, it proved thatdiscrimination against any race,religion, ethnicity or human being isintolerable. From the horrors of theHolocaust a lesson must be learnt,applied to modern society and tofuture generations. Prejudice isunacceptable, no matter how smallor meaningless. Prejudice isunacceptable.

Laura SwinglerNatasha Lamb

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Meet our Equality Champions

From left: Heidi Gjertberg, Delvin Varghese, Tim Sykes, William Brett, xxxxxxxxxxxx, Casey Mitchell-Casey, Katherine Rossiter-Johnson, Joshua Stevens, Ho-Wai Lam, Derek Van de Ven and Bharti Tailor

A group of students has recently been trained as our Equality Champions.The aim of the Equality Champions is to promote equality of opportunitythroughout the college and to find ways of counteracting prejudice,whatever form it may take.Bharti Tailor, Diversity Consultant and Chair of Chaplaincy of the Hindu

Form for Britain attended our students’ training session, during which theylooked at different types of discrimination and ways of preventing thisbehaviour.“The students will now take part in a wide range of college events,”

explains college Equality Co-ordinator and Philosophy and ReligiousStudies Course Team Leader Heidi Gjersten. “They will have a high profilerole, speaking in tutorials, attending staff meetings and featuring in eventssuch as open evenings.”The college has an equal opportunties policy, which is published in our

prospectus.

Give a pint for Dan

77 donations for DanielLong Road student Daniel Ansell sadly lost his battle with leukaemia in2004. Since then our students have made regular blood donations in hismemory, and to help publicise the fact that cancer patients may also needblood tranfusions. Just after Easter, Natalie......., ... set up stall in ourcaneteen to make appointments for blood donor week..“We were delighted with the response,” says Natalie. “We know how

busy students are at exam time, but seventy-seven students then cameover to the Blood Donor Centre at Addenbrooke’s. Daniel would be proudof you all.”

15news from former students14 the wider community

The work of two Granta prize-winning former Alevel students, Mairi Mayfield (Art, Art History andEnglish Literature) and Sarah Clarkson (Art,Photography and Media) has been on display inthe furniture department of John LewisCambridge. Granta, which is a member of theNational Society of Decorative and Fine Arts,organised a Young Arts competition for sixthformers in local schools, with John LewisCambridge providing prizes for the winners.“We are delighted with Sarah and Mairi’s

success in this prestigious competition,”comments Mike Junkovic, Head of Visual Arts atLong Road Sixth Form College. “Our studentsalways work to a very high standard, and this yearis no exception.”The students’ work will form part of a large

exhibition at the new Cambridge Central Librarylater this year.

Rebecca Brewer:Forensic Psychologist

Rebecca Brewer studied A levelEnglish Literature, Psychology,French and Product Design andleft Long Road in 2004. However,she has kept in touch with us andbrings us up to date with hercareer.

“After leaving Long Road I went on to study Psychology BSc atthe University of Warwick, before undertaking a MSc in ForensicPsychology at the University of Leicester. I now work at theInstitute of Psychiatry in London as a research worker on a newpiece of research in the Department of Forensic Mental Health.“ I can remember all of the teachers I had at Long Road. I am

most grateful to Ann Jennison (Senior Tutor) for her support andcomplete faith in my abilities, both I was studying English andwhen I was uncertain about what path to follow after Long Road.I also remember Philippe Harari and his great enthusiasm as apsychology teacher.“The teachers at Long Road helped me to achieve this path

through their support and encouragement during my studies.There was always help available when you needed it. Theyhelped to show me what I could achieve and enabled me to getthere. The need to study independently and the small campussetting of Long Road was good experience of what attendinglectures and studying for a degree would be like.“Also, the fact that Long Road pupils come from such a wide

range of areas means that you can’t help but make new friendsand meet new people from different towns. Although it is a bigsixth form college, there is a definite sense of community andeveryone still ended up knowing everybody else. “

Students’ work on display at John Lewis

Above: In the Bath, by Mairi Mayfield.Top right: Portrait of a Man, by Sarah Clarkson. Right:Portrait of a Woman, by Mairi Mayfield.

Rebecca with Philippe Harari

We ‘Wear it Red’ for Comic Relief

Members of the StudentCommunity and their

cake stall

Above: receptionistsSheila Guinan andAnne Nunn in theirnoses. Below:Natasha xxxx fromcaterers Scolarest.

The Boxercise class, led bySport teacher Ben Hudson(insert top left)

College writes tune for Pied Piper

Great Abington Primary School stages a pantomineevery February. This year, one of the parents wrote thepantomime: “The Pied Piper of Great Abington PrimarySchool,” but needed help with the music. Jon Turnerfrom our Music Technology department steeped in thehelp write songs such as ‘Cowpat Sandwiches’!

Basketball stars of the future

Long Road has applied to become a The LongRoad Basketball Academy and will be running apilot year from September 2009. To celebrate this,we hosted the the three-day Cambridge DistrictBasketball Finals for U14 and U16 boys and girls.The Academy has been set up to provide a focal

point for the development of basketball skills in thearea, working closely with local clubs CambridgeCats and Cambridge Cougars, local schools andAnglia Ruskin University.

Pictured: Sawston, St Bede’s, Cottenham andBottisham U14s

Jessica Curtis:Costume Designer

Jessica Curtis knew exactlywhat she wanted to do froman early age: to designcostumes for films andtheatre productions. Shestudied the textile option inDesign & Technology and Art & Design A leveland is now completing her ‘Year 0’ (a morespecialised type of Foundation Year) at the ArtsInstitute in Bournmouth.“My courses at Long Road were an excellent

preparation, “ she explains. “I already have thebasic skills, whereas many others have had towork extra hard this year.”As part of her course, Jessica has had to

carry out projects such as taking apart amasculine jacket and reassembling it as afeminine top, and producing a costume for thepart of Bella in the Twilight series, BreakingDawn.“We’ve also been backstage at Les

Miserables. We met and talked to the headcostume maker and had a chance to go onstage. We’ve also been to see Lion King, BloodBrothers, The 39 Steps and Wicked.“The next big thing will be our work

exchange – we’ll have a chance to go to theUnited States. My dream would be to get workexperience on something like Harry Potter,James Bond or Dr Who.”

Long Road studentsand staff are neverslow to dress up instrange attire for agood cause. Thisyear’s Comic Reliefwas no exception -and we raisednearly £400!