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We have a Youtube channel now!
Please visit and subscribe to ensure you get the latest videos to help you progress!
https://www.youtube.com/@PsychologyandSociology
Plan for additional sessions for Psychology.
I have used the information that you gave me via the Google form to create a plan for support sessions to go over any sessions covered in lock down. Please have a look and choose the sessions that you need to attend.
Study less, learn more...
This is a great talk! Lots of really valid points made that if you pick up early on in your studies you will do better than your peers!
Welcome to Psychology at Budehaven school online support site.
The main purpose of this site is as a resource for students.
The idea is that you use to aid your learning and revision for the AQA Psychology course that are currently studying at Budehaven School. But also to show you a wider range of psychology that is out there.
Remember you A level course is just a taster of what psychology has to offer!
The site will grow over time and will have an increasing range of areas for you to explore.
If you got any good ideas for thing to add or ways we could make this site more effective then please email at
31/3/2020 - HUGE update of the Inspiration section.
I have spent few days compiling and then creating a better Inspiration section, which now has 3 distinct areas for you!
This is designed to take you further in your studies of psychology than just the course and has been done in direct response to the survey I carried out.
You asked and I do!
So enjoy an chance to have a bit more of guided tour of wider areas involved in psychology!
20/3/2020 - First video sessions for attachment are now available!
Please click on the "lesson videos" page on the side bar, select the one you want to watch on the video lesson page and go from there!
23/3/20 -
"You don't have time to panic"
Interesting article on working in a mental health ward.check it out if you think you might like to go into this area. - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/88a00627-7a07-4d2f-9866-03e22bad1026?xtor=CS8-1000-%5BPromo_Box%5D-%5BNews_Promo%5D-%5BNews_Promo%5D-%5BPS_BBC_THREE~N~~A_StaceyDooleyPsychWard%5D
23/5/19
Plymouth Uni Psychology open day!
We have been invited to attend an open day at Plymouth University. it will include a series of 20 minute lectures on all sort of topic & a chance to do some really cool work shops including checking out their high end Babylabs and EEG machines!
A Bude student who went last time said "The open day was great when we went, I'm so glad I did go because seeing the facilities, the area, and the staff was so useful!!" .
Cost is £9 to cover the cost of travel. Any difficulty in
paying have a word and we will see if we can access some funds in school to help out.
Apply through the school gateway.
18/3/19
Online relationships - What about grief?
A really interesting article about online relationships and the experience of grief and loss when an online friend passes away.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-47556306
Added 27/2/19
Need help planning out your revision?
Want some activities that you can do to help yourself? Check out the revision aids page for help!
N.B. The secret to great revision? Start early, cover thing repeatedly & using active strategies to make you think about what you are covering.
Added 3/10/18
Behind Bars Conference!
Year 12 & 13 are to get the chance to attend a conference on crime and understanding how people get into crime, how the criminal justice system works & what people really experience as part of the prison system. It takes place on the 15th of November, tickets are £28 and lunch will be provided.
See Mr Kavanagh for more details or for Further details of the conference, including testimonials from other schools who have hosted or attended the day, can be found by clicking on the link below:
http://www.truelifeconferences.co.uk/Behind_Bars.html
Added 10/07/18
Knowledge Organisers!
Need some help to master the key terms? Work out what studies you mu know in depth? Need a way to get your file that bit more organised?
Added 5/7/18
The Psychology Book report!
The book report is designed to get you to think about psychology outside of the class room, in a real world context so to speak.
I’m looking for 1 page of A4, preferably submitted on a power point slide, in which you will
Give the key details of about the book, the title, Author etc.
Summaries the key plot elements
Discuss the psychological element, how it linked into yours studies / interests & how it made you think of psychology outside of the lesson.
No books from other subjects allowed ie no 1984!
Due in first day back!
Added 8/3/18
Women matter in psychology, here is just a few who have had a major impact!
This link is to an article highlighting some of the fantastic contribution female theorists have made within the world of psychology. Please check it out for a little bit of inspiration!
https://www.verywellmind.com/women-who-changed-psychology-2795260
Added 15/1/18
Congratulation to Helena Ruskin & Zoe Pett, despite a very able and suitable group of candidates, for being chosen to take part in the "Lesson from Project" this year.
In the event of one of them having to pull out the reserves are as follows.
1st Reserve – Hattie Oliver
2nd Reserve – Molly Langford
3rd Reserve – Beth Lewis
Thank you everyone who took the time to enter!
Added 13/12/17
The "Lesson from Auschwitz" project is back!
This is the opportunity to take part in a series of seminars and lectures and to have the opportunity to visit the site in Poland. Only 2 students get eh chance to speak to me soon if you are interested!
Also check out a previous students experiences of the project by clicking here!
Added 16/11/17
Sample question for psychology interviews at Uni from Oxford have been added as a helpful prep point for you if your thinking of going to uni to study psychology. ( I have also left a link where you can find it them for lots of other subject too!)
Added 3/10/17
Money Advice Project powerpoints added!
Missed the session but want the advice? click on the image to be taken to the page where all the information is stored!
Added 7/6/17
Quizlet and Kahoot!
I have spent quite a bit of time creating Quizlet quizzes and Kahoots for you to use as part of your learn and revision process. so please log on to each and use each to help you! for Quizlet you need to have an account and for Kahoot it can be useful for you to do so as you can then mark all my quizzes as favorite and then can use them to help test your self as we go through the course and are prepping for mocks or exams.
21/05/17
Get more sleep! it will help your grades!
Check out this Ted talk about the issue for sleep cycles and how our school system negativity effects your ability to learn ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_troxel_why_school_should_start_later_for_teens
Added 3/02/17
A series of film being screened after school in B3. All great films with a psychology element. so grab your pop corn and come and expand your understanding of psychology and the world.
first film
"The Stanford Prison
Experiment"
Added 1/06/16
Answer to a students question on Pavlov's dog.
Ok so it may be half term but before we broke up a student asked me a question on something the I had never thought about before, namely "What dogs did they use in Pavlov's famous 1904 study?"
I did not have an answer at the time but I do now!
This question has clearly been asked by a student before in the states as I have found this great article which answers the question well and was publish at the USA's legendary museum the Smithsonian!
Click here to be taken to the article!
Added 22/4/26
The 2016 confidence survey,
Please complete the survey attached to the following link
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CLCPF3S
Want to know what that was about? check out this link!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07865h3
Mock exams for year 12
The mock exams will be held in your lesson on the 14th of June. It will questions upon memory, social influence, attachment, abnormality and research methods. You need to spend time preparing for it looking at both the content and practicing exam style questions.
Any questions or queries then please come and see me.
Added 28/1/16
New Revision resources added for the old spec!
Check out the revision resources too!
added 21/1/16
Psychology open day at Plymouth uni.
Plymouth university has kindly agreed to pay travel costs for the trip on the 14th of April, meaning that we are now able to attend with no cost to your selves ! Places are still limited so please get your slips in asap!
added 5/01/16
Thank you to all those whom entered them selves for consideration, it was not an easy choice to make however make it I have!
The students selected for the trip to Auschwitz are...
1. - Charlie B
2. - Alfie O
Reserve - Lilly H.
Well done to all!
Please come and see me to arrange the next step!
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The chance to take part in the "lessons for Auschwitz" project
added 16/12/2015
2 students have a the opportunity to go to Auschwitz, the infamous concentration camp, as part of a international scheme to support people in accessing the important lessons that we can learn from the Holocaust.
Click here to be taken to link about Plymouth students who have taken part in this previously
Hi all, I have just been given an opportunity for 2 students from psychology to take part in a project which looks at the holocaust, something we look at in the social influence topic. It runs during March, so you would need to be available on Sunday the 13th, Wednesday 16th and Tuesday 22nd.
It involves you attended a half day preparation course in Exeter, then flying out from Exeter for a one day to auschwitz, then returning to Exeter to do a half day prep day before carrying out some form of feedback to people within the school about your experience.
It costs just £59 which is heavily subsidised cost and would be available for just 2 students. So if you are interested in coming please let me know ASAP. I expect quite a few of you would like to go so I will require you to email me 500 words on what you think you will gain from going in order to help me pick who is most suitable. Closing date will be the 3rd of January so that I can sort through them on the 4th and tell the lucky candidates then so that we can get our application sent off by the end of the school week.
It is a limited place project and requires commitment from you, meaning that once signed up you will need to do everything you can to ensure that you attend. Also you will need to pay the £59 at the point we apply for the places so will need to have the funds in place to do this.
Any questions then please ask,
Yours
Mr Kavanagh