a week of planning

It's time for my weekly blog to let everyone know what I have been upto in the last week and on reflection it has been a whole lot of planning.

I have been working with Katie (VPS) to get plans into action for the Wellbeing event for Welcome Week, together we are going to be working on creating the one stop shop for improving your student lifestyle. With activities information ranging from excercise to nutrition, from stress to sexual health there should be something for everyone. Keep an eye out for more details on what to expect.

I have also been planning what the Guild is going to do to try and help student parents this year. Working with the recent NUS research and student parents from our campus we are going to try and get right to the heart of how we can make things easier for student parents. The first item on the agenda is to get a networking event set up during the first couple of weeks of term. Isolation has been highlighted as a big issue for student parents who cannot go out and socialise in the same ways as other students and also adds to the high drop our rates amongst student parents. We aim to host a coffee morning where students can come with their children and meet new people and socialise in a child friendly environment. If you are a student parent and would like to help organising these events then let me know.

I have also been helping the welcome week committee in their plans to make freshers fest just as safe and supportive as it is fun. So whether that be condoms or working out how many units you've had to drink, your welcome week crew will have it covered. So don't forget to 'Chill Out' this freshers week!

I have also been keeping myself busy with some of the more day to day stuff that us Sabbs have to do. We had Health and Safety training on monday, we must remember to bend from our knees! I was involved in the Job evaluation presentations with Ed. We are going to brining in the experts to ensure that all our staffing structures are working, that the staff know what is expected of them and how they can progress within the Guild, something that we are not doing as well as we could be at the moment. Finally I have been meeting with various schools and staff across the University that I will be working with this year and making sure that we are all up to speed ready for the fun to begin in a couple of weeks time.

For now I'm off to enjoy the bank holiday weekend, hopefully in the sunshine!