Wakefield Campus - A Levels

How fast are your reflexes? Fancy testing how fast you can react to a range of different experiments?Join us to learn about the world of nerves and how they save our lives on a daily basis.

How fast are your reflexes? Fancy testing how fast you can react to a range of different experiments?Join us to learn about the world of nerves and how they save our lives on a daily basis.

This session will involve you working in pairs/small groups to create and design a brand new chocolate bar. You will need to come up with marketing strategies and explain your 4P’s marketing mix – Price, Product features, promotion and place to be sold.

Ethanal is widely used in industry as a reactant to make products such as dyes, perfumes and flavouring agents. In this session, you will look at oxidising ethanol to ethanal and then separating them using fractional distillation. The presence of ethanal can then be tested using a silver mirror test.

Cryptography is a fundamental part of securing electronic communications, but methods of encryption have been used since before computers were invented. In this session, you will explore methods of basic encryption and develop a computer program to implement encryption.

In this session, you will look at what is crime, what is disorder, what is deviance and the differences between crime, disorder and deviance. This will be a good introduction to what the Criminology course will be like to study at Wakefield College.

In this session, you will analyse a pie chart of spending for the last UK Budget and answer some question on this. Then in pairs/groups, you will get the chance to decide on what your own budget would be and provide the reasons for your choices.

Words, Words WORDS! They’re peng, innit? Have you ever noticed that some words you’d use two or three years just wouldn’t cut it today? Why do we constantly renew them? What’s the ‘word of the year’ according to experts? What’s English Language like at A Level??Come along to the English Language Taster Session and let me ‘spill the tea!’You’ll learn new terms (even the word ‘word’ isn’t called this at A Level …)You’ll be able to recognise the different fields (no, not the grassy one) where new language comes from AND you’ll be able to recognise the country’s origin of some words (did you know the word ‘cookie’ is Dutch???) Lit!Don’t have a FOMO! By the time you leave, you’ll be like “English Language is the GOAT!”LMIRL

From the Page to the Stage – Studying drama is a key part of Literature, but reading the script is only a part of it! In this session we will look at ways of unlocking dramatic texts and how directors bring them alive on the stage or the big screen (don’t worry about stage fright – you won’t be asked to perform). If you find the bard hard or Miller a killer, then this is the session for you!

In this session, you will discover the ways in which film communicates to its audience through an exploration of camerawork, editing and sound with reference to a selection of popular films.

‘There is nothing more important in the world to discuss today than our response to the detrimental effects global climate change is having on our planet and our way of life’. In this session we will explore our responses to global climate change; how effective they are in meeting the challenges; arguing the case for its importance in the face of other global challenges such as war, poverty, pandemics, and species extinction; and maybe some of the big questions surrounding the issue such as how could we rethink our idea of development and what does it really mean to progress sustainably? Hope that you can join us!

Cuban missile crisis decision making – In this session, following a script, you will make a series of decisions on the events of the Cuban missile crisis being awarded points to add up to a final score.

In this session, you will be learning an introduction to Criminal Law and Non-fatal offences against a person. You will also look at some high-profile crimes and criminals during the session.

Escape from a variety of Maths Rooms using a selection of your Maths skills. The 7 Rooms include: Secret Bunker, Space Station, Garden Tunnel, The Office, Dungeon, The Island and Skate Park. You will compete this in teams to solve maths problems in order to escape the various scenarios.

This practical session will offer you an insight into the coursework component of A Level Media Studies. Turn your favourite film poster into a grisly horror using a set of technical skills that you will acquire during this session.

In this session, you will be learning the basics of composition and lighting in the class first to then be independent as a small group to create an image that tells a story. The imagery will need to show good use of camera angle, lighting, location, props and people. It will also need to have a narrative that will have people guessing what story you are trying to tell.

How do motors work? Can you build a motor with an AA battery, a length of wire, a screw and a magnet? You will learn the fundamental concepts of how a motor works and be able to predict motion based on the skills introduced in this session, that you will use time and again in GCSE, A level and beyond in STEM careers.

In this session, you will look at the process by which parliament creates laws then role play the passing of a bill of their making e.g. abolition of homework.

The session will consist of multiple mini activities to highlight certain topics within Psychology such as a memory experiment, organising plastic cups considering the success of Maslow Hierarchy of Needs, etc. This will give you a great insight into the range of topics studied on the A Level Psychology course.

In this session, you will look at the inequalities between social groups and the concept of meritocracy. You will look at the impact of inequalities and how this affects many aspects of society e.g. crime and deviance, the family structure and how the education system may overcome this.