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Where to go and What to do

Winter Whiles. Where to go and What to do. Overview. Introductions: The Student Wellbeing Team What’s on over the winter break? Looking after yourself and each other Sources of support Questions Social Time. Feeling Festive?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jyCfRHumHU

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Where to go and What to do

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  1. Winter Whiles Where to go and What to do

  2. Overview • Introductions: The Student Wellbeing Team • What’s on over the winter break? • Looking after yourself and each other • Sources of support • Questions • Social Time

  3. Feeling Festive? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jyCfRHumHU • What feelings do you associate with Christmas? • Some people consider Christmas the best time of the year but for others this is not the case • University can seem like a very different place over the winter break with many students having gone home • Sometimes feelings of sadness and loneliness can become overwhelming. It’s at times like this that we would recommend a student accesses support

  4. Support from your University Both Universities have counselling and therapy services during normal University opening times: Newcastle: 0191 208 3333 https://my.ncl.ac.uk/students/enquiries Northumbria: 0191 227 4576 as.counsellingandmentalhealth@northumbria.ac.uk

  5. Out of Hours Support • Samaritans: 08457 90 90 90 • NHS Direct: 08 45 46 47 • Emergency Services: 999 • Newcastle University Chaplaincy: 0191 222 6341 • Northumbria University Chaplaincy: 07968 484 072

  6. What’s on?

  7. What’s On?

  8. Looking After Yourself and Each Other • Host an Online Christmas Do you have online friends? Do you have long-distance relatives? Host an online Christmas by setting up a Skype chatroom or Facebook group. • Look Forward Make a plan for something to look forward to. • It’s not too late! Sometimes last minute plans can be the best ones. Join up with other people who are on their own over the holiday and arrange to get together. You might enjoy time to yourself and time to focus on work but you also may want to think about some of the opportunities available to you…

  9. And Finally… • Any questions? • Please stay, help yourself to food and drink and have a go at the quiz!

  10. Quiz 1. Turkey is the traditional English Christmas meal. Which part of the world did turkeys originate from? 2. What is the popular name for little baked sausages wrapped in rashers of streaky bacon? 3. Who are the four ghosts in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol? 4. In Victorian England what people were popularly called robins because of their red uniforms? 5. In what country, the world's seventh largest by geographical area, is Christmas known as Bada Din (the big day)?

  11. Quiz 6. What is the chemical formula of snow? 7. What is New Year's Eve called in Scotland? 8. When did England last have a white Christmas? 9. Which country is the largest exporter of Christmas trees? 10. What present did Harry Potter receive from Albus Dumbledore on his first Christmas at Hogwarts?

  12. Answers 1. North America 2. Pigs in blankets 3. Jacob Marley, Christmas Past, Present & Future 4. Postmen 5. India 6. H2O 7. Hogmanay 8. 2010 9. Canada 10. An invisibility cloak

  13. Enjoy the winter break!

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