What a year it’s been for Psychology!

In September, Miss Lara Beere, and our incredible students warmly welcomed Miss Shelley Carr and me (Ms Lissa Rogers), as two new members of our team of just three. A huge ‘thank you’ to all students for your warmth, kindness, enthusiasm, and hard work. Teamwork is dreamwork!

The year has flown by. Whilst Upper Sixth A Level students studied new topics including forensic psychology, biopsychology, schizophrenia and gender, the Applied Psychology students wrote detailed coursework assignments on topics, ranging from creating an offender profile, to critiquing theories of offending behaviour (focusing on biological and psychological explanations).

Lower Sixth A Level students began their Psychology career learning about how the different key approaches cannot agree on where our behaviour comes from! Is behaviour inherited? (Biological approach). Does this mean we have no freewill? Is all behaviour learned? (Behaviourism) Can we learn phobias? And that’s before we get into Freud’s idea of the Oedipus Complex! The Applied Psychology students had a busy time of designing and implementing their own pilot studies and discovering how challenging it can be to work with participants!

We bid a fond farewell to our Upper Sixth psychologists, many of whom will study Psychology related degrees. We wish all students every success for the future and look forward to welcoming you back to give a Psychology Society talk in the future.

Ms Lissa Rogers