Daily routines

Hello all, well, I promised I'd give you a rundown of how I manage my workload and my free time, so I'll write down how I organised my day today.

6:25 - 6:45 - get up, make lunch, eat breakfast
6:45-7:30 - chill, begin blog, surf the web
7:30-8 - get dressed, pack school bag, watch news
8-8:20 - dad drives me to school on his way to work
8:20-8:45 - do further reading or find news relating to my courses.
8:45-9 - form time
9-10 - Biology lesson
10-11 - Biology lesson
11-11:20 - BREAK - eat cereal bar, bought a bacon roll in the canteen
11.20-12.20 - Free - Did biology homework in the library
12:20-1:20 - Free - Watched sea of souls on my iPod
1:20-2 - LUNCH - ate lunch, discussed halloween costumes
2-2:25 - Form time - worked on my personal statement
2:25-3:25 - Free - finished off biology homework and finished off sea of souls
3:25-3:45 - Walked to bus stop
4-4:30 - Bus journey home
4:30-4:40 - nipped into Tesco to buy some stuff for my Dad's birthday
4:40-4:50 - walked home
4:50-4:55 - Unpacked school bag
4:55-5:05 - wrapped Dad's presents
5:05 - 5:15 - Did psychology homework (Plan for a question)
5:15-5:30 - read chapter of biology textbook
5:30 - 6 - read chapter of history textbook
6-6:30 - entered competitions and used swagbucks
6:30 - 6:53 - Finished a bracelet comission
6:53 - 7:10 - Dinner
7:10-7:20 - washing up
7:20-7:30 - shower
7:30-8 - read today's biology notes
8-8:30 - my parents are aliens
8:30-9 - read today's biology notes
9-10 - Doc Martin
10-11-Frasier
11 - BED!!

That was today, I'll do a separate post for weekends as there are some variations, but for now, goodnight!

Year 13 update

Hello all,

You may remember that towards the end of August I was preparing for heading back to school after the summer holidays, to begin by final year of school, I thought i'd update you on how the last week has gone.

School began on wednesday 4th September for years 7,12 and 13, with the rest of the school coming back on the Thursday.
This was  to give the newbies a chance to settle into high school and sixth form, Year 13 had to go in as we were running the induction day with the year 12s and we are encouraged to make friends cross both year groups, rather than only in our own.

The induction day consisted of making balloon chairs, spiders web and other team building activities.

My teams balloon chair

After the activities we had an assembly and got to go home at 3pm.

In the 5 days since however, I have had lessons each day, although I do have many more frees now as I have dropped geography this year, so I will only be doing Biology, Psychology and History this year.

On top of the extra study time, my dad is currently planning my own little study so that I can utilise my study time at home more effectivley as my room at the moment is too small for me to be organised.

When it is finally completed, I will upload some before and after pictures.

For now however, it is getting late and I have some bracelet commisions to complete before the day is out so I should get a shower and do them before I settle down in front of the TV. 

I will be posting an in-depth daily routine one of these days to show you how I organise my school work, as well as having that all important "me time", and maybe it will help one of you guys!

Alons-y!

Psychology - Turning to crime - Upbringing

TURNING TO CRIME

UPBRINGING

LO: How might someone's upbringing cause them to turn to crime?

Disrupted families

-Farrington et al.

    -> Cambridge study in delinquent development.

Aims:

-Document the start, duration and end of offending behaviour, from childhood to adulthood in families.

-To investigate influence of life events.

      -> Risk & protective factors

      -> Intergenerational transmission of offending and antisocial behaviour.

      -> Influence of family background.

--> Longitudinal study with many male participants.

      - Latest data gathered from interviews and criminal records at age 48.

--> Range of risk factors found including family and poverty.

Learning from others

-Sutherland

  - Theory of differential association (the way people react with different people).

  - Intended as a comprehensive explanation of criminal and some non-criminal behaviour.

  - 9 principles that may make someeone more likely to turn to crime.

Poverty and disadvantaged neighbourhoods

-Wikstrom

    - The Peterborough youth study

--> According to government figures:

       -The most disadvantaged 5% are 100x more likely to have multiple problems than          the most advantaged 50%

        *Conduct disorders

        *Police contact

        *Cannabis use

        *Mood disorders

        *Alcohol abuse

  -Cross-sectional

  -Very large sample

  - Interviews identified a number of risk factors of living in poverty that may cause             someone to turn to crime, including:

     *Family social position (class)

     * Social situation (e.g. truancy)

     *Lifestyle

       

ATP

LO: What is ATP?

Adenosine Triphosphate

• It is the ENERGY CURRENCY of the cell. 
• ATP is hydrolysed when a cell needs energy. ATP -> ADP + Pi + ENERGY

         -reversible reaction

        ADP + Pi + ENERGY -> ATP

• ATP is a small molecule - it produces energy in "small packets"

          -> A single molecule may be enough to supply the energy needs of a single chemical reacion.

• Constantly being used and recycled by every living cell.
• Soluble within the cell and so can easily be transported from site of energy release to where it is needed.