Online Events and Activities for Schools and Colleges

MADE FOR UNI Online Events and Activities for Schools and Colleges

Our Made for Uni online delivery digital brochure is designed to help you assist your students with their transition to university.

If you are a teacher, including Head of Sixth Form and Head of Subject, Post-16 leader, coordinator and adviser, Student Liaison Officer, or Careers Adviser, read on to find out more about how the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) can help you.

UWTSD’s Recruitment and Liaison team works with schools and colleges, locally and nationally, supplying key information on Higher Education, including courses, funding, student life, academic and study skills, and more.

We aim to promote access to Higher Education for all and provide high-quality information and advice to ultimately help guide students on their journey to HE. As we are active members of the Higher Education Liaison Officers Association (HELOA), you can be sure that the information and advice provided by our team is professional, informed and impartial.

While everything on offer in this brochure would usually be delivered in person, either on one of our wonderful campuses or at your school or college, all our activity has been moved online since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Though we cannot wait to get back to meeting you and your students in person and inviting you

on to our campuses again, activities will continue to be delivered in this way for the foreseeable future.

We appreciate it has been a difficult and uncertain time for schools and colleges. We want to help in any way we can and are happy to arrange a tailored activity to suit your students’ needs.

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ONLINE PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS We offer a range of presentations and workshops online to assist your students with the next steps in their education, see our full list of presentations and workshops on the next page.

We appreciate that during these uncertain times students may feel anxious about the future.

Our presentations and workshops are designed to inform and guide students before and during their transition into Higher Education.

All presentations and workshops are free of charge and can be tailored to suit specific requirements. We can offer a combination of topics at a date and time that suits you. All presentations and workshops are impartial and available in English, Welsh or bilingually.

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Invest in your future: Student Finance An Introduction to the UCAS application process

Student life

Choosing a course and university Why Higher Education?

Personal Statement Workshops Why UWTSD?

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TASTER SESSIONS AND SUBJECT PRESENTATIONS

Subject Area:

ANTHROPOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

HEALTH NURSING AND SOCIAL CARE

ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

HISTORY CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all our taster sessions and subject presentations are now delivered virtually.

ART AND DESIGN

PERFORMING ARTS

Subject sessions are a great way to introduce your students to their chosen area of study and the variety of subjects on offer at Higher Education level. Our Taster Sessions and Subject Presentations provide a flavour of what is available at UWTSD.

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT

PHILOSOPHY AND LIBERAL ARTS

CHINESE STUDIES

PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELLING

COMPUTING AND ELECTRONICS

PUBLIC SERVICES POLICING LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY

UWTSD offers small class sizes and a welcoming, supportive learning and social environment. Our friendly and informal virtual taster sessions and course presentations replicate this experience for prospective students. Lecturers will share useful application tips, demonstrate how courses have adapted to online and blended learning and highlight our teaching facilities. Support teams, such as our finance, accommodation and wellbeing officers, will also be present to answer questions and ease any worries that your students will naturally have as they transition into Higher Education.

EARLY YEARS EDUCATION STUDIES AND TEACHING

RELIGION AND THEOLOGY

ENGINEERING

SOCIAL STUDIES

ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING

SPORT HEALTH AND EXERCISE

ENVIRONMENT

TOURISM EVENTS AND HOSPITALITY

FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY AND MUSIC

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A STEPPINGSTONE TO HE

FREE ONLINE LEVEL 4 COURSE FOR KS5 STUDENTS In this unusual and uncertain situation, with so many disruptions and challenges to teaching and learning and the cancellation of exams and assessments, we appreciate that your students may be increasingly worried about the step from school or college to university.

Our academic-thinking course can help them cross some of these bridges by introducing participants to activities and resources that will help them develop a range of academic reading, writing, and critical-thinking skills.

There are three key themes, each includes a wider range of topics and skills: Getting started with academic study • Introduction to critical thinking • Basic skills for academia: reading, notetaking, locating appropriate information Becoming a researcher and presenting your work effectively • Writing for academic work: skills and strategies • Referencing and citing information • Evaluating information: fake news and selecting sources • Structuring a basic argument • Common errors and pitfalls

Supporting effective study skills • Developing personal skills for academic life • Time management • Wellbeing • Goal setting • Managing academic workload Assessment • A three-minute Flipgrid presentation • Referencing tasks • 300-word blog Successful completion of the course equals five to 10 credits at Level 4, will put your students ahead of the game and look great on their university application.

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Find out more about what UWTSD can offer you visit:

uwtsd.ac.uk/schools-and-colleges MADE FOR UNI