We organise events and real-world research opportunities with reputable universities to nurture our students' love of Psychology. Psychology is usually the most popular A-Level subject at Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School and more students choose to study for a Psychology or Social Sciences degree than any other subject. Our students clearly have a passion for the subject, which was the impetus for setting up TheMindLab@SLGGS in September 2019. We believe this to be the first school-based centre of its kind in the country. TheMindLab@SLGGS has three main aims:
(1) To improve students' understanding of Psychology: A-Level students will have opportunities to take their learning beyond the confines of the specification and lower school students will be able to learn more about what the subject involves
(2) To allow students to gain experience participating in, designing and conducting psychological research; we will work collaboratively with academics from The University of Kent and other leading universities around the country to achieve this aim
(3) To improve students' awareness of the wide variety of careers linked to the subject
How are these aims achieved? Students from all year groups will engage in academic psychological research and demonstrations into areas such as how students experience positive emotions and what affects peer relations. A full programme of lectures, delivered by psychologists from various fields, will be open to everyone and our students will contribute articles to our in-house journal, attend Psychology Society meetings and will generally find out much more about the study of Psychology. TheMindLab@SLGGS is led by Mrs Homerston (Head of Psychology and Director of the Mind Lab), so please feel free to contact her at any time via email: [email protected].
