Carlton Academy

Social Sciences
This half term has been a very busy one
for Social Science. Students have made
fantastic starts to their courses this year.
A key event for us was the Sixth Form
Open Evening where many of our current
Sixth Form students helped to promote
the Psychology, Sociology and Health and
Social Care courses that we offer at A
Level. Students handed out ‘brain canapes’,
talked to prospective students as well as
ran interactive sessions in Health and Social
Care. Students were able to experience what is would be like to be partially sighted by
trying on specific glasses and also how a stethoscope is used to measure heart rate and
check for abnormalities.
A Level Psychology students were also given the opportunity to attend a Psychology
and Science conference trip at the Nottingham Playhouse in November. This day focused
on the scientific nature of the subject and how Science is being used in this field to
determine and predict human behaviour. The day included sessions on Pseudoscience,
the Psychology of dance and magic and ended with a live hypnosis session run by
the famous Andrew Newton (the man who trained the well-known hypnotist, Paul
McKenna). Some of the pictures show Dr Peter Lovatt (also known as Dr Dance)
getting the whole audience involved in dancing and discussing the biological basis of
dancing behaviour and how our genes and evolutionary processes have influenced the
ways in which men and women dance. As well as this, students listened to talks about
Psychology and Pseudoscience and whether or not we should believe articles published
in the public domain!
Miss Rana