Five Year 12 Furze Platt students visited Royal Holloway, Egham, where they took part in a university competition.  Against students from 22 other schools from across England, they were tasked with producing a video and poster on the topic of applying psychology in the 'real world'.

Furze Platt fielded 2 teams, one of which won second prize in the competition. The prize consists of £75 of book vouchers, which will be used to enlarge the psychology department library. Whilst at the University, students were treated to a lecture by researchers involved in developing alarm systems for helicopters and were shown how the development of these systems relies (to a large extent) on applied psychological research.

Our congratulations go to all the students who took part, namely: C Osborne, S Coombs, S Hampton, Z Penman and E Charles (pictured). They made us proud.

Special thanks to Mr C Marris.