Looking forward to the first taster course student of this academic year

On Monday 19 November we will be welcoming Anastasia Badashova into college for an A-level Taster Course. She has chosen to follow a bespoke programme and will be sampling 6 different subjects during her two weeks at JLC - Biology, Maths, Psychology, Sociology, English Language and Art & Design.

Watch this space for daily blogs from Anastasia who will be sharing her experiences and photographs.

Lera makes the news in Scunthorpe

Day 10 at JLC by Lera Yakubova

Here it is… my last day at John Leggot College. It was good despite the weather. English literature was alright when we watched a Macbeth movie this time produced by a BBC channel. I also got a copy of reading suggestions, might read something from that list. After break at double IELTS I had a surprise from the International centre and a couple of my teachers. They all gathered to give a Certificate of Achievement stating that I completed my two-week taster course at JLC. They also got me a gift. Thank you all very much!!! The lesson of IELTS did happen afterwards and it was interesting all the information was very useful.

The rest of the day wasn’t long as my last period didn’t happen. At French we had a goodbye party for two language teachers of French and Spanish. So the atmosphere was a little bit sad in the end.

I had a really good time here at college and gained a lot of experience. Thanks to all the teachers who were teaching me these past two weeks. I hope I will have a chance to study at JLC after I finish school.

Lera is presented with a certificate in her final English lesson.

Day 9 at JLC by Lera Yakubova

Today my post won’t be big because a couple of my lessons were cancelled. But the day started great. I finally won the thing at Math I wrote about earlier. It really gave some sunshine to the day because good weather which was lasting for three days now suddenly disappeared. I guess that was the best of sun and warmth I could get. At ICT I finished my last project which was a jigsaw puzzle. I had fun doing it. Unfortunately, that was my last ICT lesson.

Day 8 at JLC by Lera Yakubova

Today I hadn’t had any lessons because I visited Bradford University. I had to get up quite early because it was almost a 2 hour drive, plus we got lost in Bradford itself. As it was an ICT trip everything was connected with computering and programing. First we had a small introduction. First lecture was about creating animation and making character movements. It’s really hard to create an animated movie clip. A three-minute one takes about six months. Can you believe that? After that we worked with java and made computer do simple command like writing “Hello World” on the screen. I’ve never worked with java before but it was really interesting to know about. After a quick lunch we had a last event for the day which included a character workshop with a lady. We had to create a character for a video game which was also supposed to have something in common with a movie. It had a title “Red Riding Hood” directed by Quentin Tarantino. In the end our Red Riding Hood wasn’t exactly a girl with a basket carrying cookies to her grandma but she really corresponded to women in Quentin Tarantino films.

Day 7 at JLC by Lera Yakubova

I think this was my most active and hectic of all since I’ve been here. First of all there was Biology. I wish it never happened. Although I got to know some useful information about kite diagrams and discovered how many kinds of grasses there could be on a field that looks green and you assume it’s just an ordinary grass. So by the end of this double my legs were wet covered in dirt but at least the weather was great. I don’t know what could’ve happened if it was raining again. At my break I met the Principle of the college. After that there was a double Maths. We were revising the previous lesson topic and had to make a poster on this topic. There was also some sort of math solving competition using distance remote control system. They weren’t hard but unfortunately I didn’t win. At ICT I was still working on Flash program and our teacher gave us some “chocolate” dip (it really tasted like coffee). At my free 9^th period local press came to interview me. I enjoyed answering their questions very much. They also took some photos outside of college. So I’m hoping to see my face in the paper soon.

Interview with the local press

Lera is interviewed by a reporter at the Scunthorpe Telegraph

Meeting the principal

Official welcome to John Leggott College from Principal David Vasse

Day 6 at JLC by Lera Yakubova

Here goes another week. Same classes but much more to expect. ICT and IELTS went fine. At IELTS I got my writing assignment which stated that I did alright for my first time doing this kind of work. On double French we finished watching “La Haine” which had a kind of sad ending with a hanging line in the end. Math was fun as always. We got to know how architecture can be displayed in Math on a particular example of 7 bridges of Konigsberg. Dijkstra’s algorithm was interesting to know about too. It tells us about the shortest route from one point to another throughout other different posts. Literature was quite good. We started reading Macbeth and exploring his character and personality.

Weekend by Lera Yakubova

Saturday...a visit to London.....

Westminster Abbey

Big Ben