Two days of College Life...

On 18 and 19 June the Newcastle-under-Lyme College School Liaison Team welcomed 45 Year 10 pupils from The Co-Operative Academy of Stoke-on-Trent for two days experiencing college life.

On day one the pupils got to experience various A Level tasters in; Law, Psychology, Sociology, I.T., Science, Textiles, Dance, Art History and Media Studies.

The pupils enjoyed an introduction to the key concepts in Psychology and Sociology, including social norms, values and the process of socialisation. Susannah Gayle commented; “This session was great! Really active and engaging as well as interactive. It made me want to study it at college.” A number of pupils have mentioned that they didn’t understand what Psychology or Sociology were before this session and now they are thinking of taking it at college!

They were also introduced to the basics of Computer programming with the students eventually able to use the knowledge learned to construct images of trees and rockets using various colours, on each line of the screen. Lewis Brown described this session as “The best lesson today, it was fun, enjoyable and interactive”.

Other comments included Jade Johnson talking about her Theatre Studies session; “This was very entertaining and informative and this is something that I will consider taking at college.”

Simran Iqbal summed the day up; “I really enjoyed my visit to NULC. I think it is an amazing college with great facilities.”

 

On day two the pupils looked forward to experiencing various tasters in vocational subjects that they had chosen. The students were split into their groups and began the first sessions in Photography, Hair & Beauty and Bricklaying. In Photography the students were introduced to the college photography studio and dark room and made a number of black and white photograms each. Amy Pearce said; “Photography was amazing! I learnt so much about developing photographs.”

In the second session the pupils were able to choose between Sport, Fashion and Painting & Decorating. In Fashion the pupils learnt different skills to enable them to produce a shirt that they had designed. In Painting & Decorating the students not only learnt practical skills to produce various designs using different techniques but also went home with the knowledge needed to do their own DIY. Sport included both theory and practical sessions and concluded with a very competitive game of Frisbee!