Head of Department: Mr David Bott

“The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.” - Hermann Ebbinghaus

Psychology is offered at A Level and the aim of the department is to introduce students to a new discipline which has synopticity with other subjects they may have chosen to study. It is, of course, a subject which has been around for hundreds of years but it has traditionally been the preserve of the universities. It is therefore the case that the subject has come down from university level rather than being invented at school level and moving up. It is a well-respected academic A Level and would support anybody in their application to study psychology further or in an application for medicine, law and sociology. It does, in fact, develop skills transferable to any academic degree course.

“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” – Sigmund Freud