Off-campus sessions
Whilst we’d love to welcome you onto campus, we realise this isn’t always possible. We can also bring our engaging sessions to your premises.
The following sessions are one-hour, subject-specific and designed to fit into your timetable. All our sessions link to the Gatsby Benchmarks. Suitable for students in Year 12-13, studying a Level 3 qualification. Our visit to you will give students a taste of what studying these subjects at university or what the university experience might be like.
To make an enquiry or make a reservation, please contact us.
Animation is all around us. Students will create their own ‘Tik-Tok’ style video using real animation techniques and learn about the exciting opportunities in the industry.
By analysing 30,000-year-old cave paintings to come up with hypotheses based upon their findings, students will compare their results to real-life archaeological research papers.
This practical building design session is perfect for students with an interest in Creative Arts, Physics or Engineering. Participants will create their own building whilst learning and incorporating specific design specifications into their creations.
We can offer a number of workshops across Business and Management to suit your students’ learning requirements. The workshops are informed by and designed to support the student’s development on their current Level 3 programme, as well as provide an insight into studying business in higher education. Each workshop is up to an hour long but can be adapted to meet your individual institution’s requirements. We hope to engage and inspire your students, equipping them with the skills and knowledge that will enable them to make well-informed decisions, whilst successfully navigating their way through their post-18 options. For all session information download our activity menu.
Option 1: Stocks and Share
Students enhance their decision-making skills whilst playing The Stock Market game. Students will try to keep up with the most up-to-date business information and news to invest in shares of fictitious companies and commodities in a mini-stock market. This competitive session sees groups competing to try and make as much money as possible
Option 2: Bags of Fun
Soft skills are skills that help you to interact effectively with other people. They are especially important in the workplace and will help you be more resilient, to negotiate both short-term and long-term goals, and to deal with change. Come along to this workshop to explore what soft skills are, how they can be developed and how you can use them to your advantage.
Option 3: Alternative Histories – Storytelling and Tourism
This session looks at heritage through the lens of tourism/tourism design. It aims to develop the creative and storytelling skills, and confidence, of students as they interpret and discuss heritage tourism experiences or sites. What sites will be of interest and how will this be communicated? The difference is that the heritage in question is based on the history from an alternative reality – a place where major world events have taken a different course – the students must adapt to and work within this new reality. They will present their findings to others and are encouraged to use visual aids to do so.
Option 4: Secrets of Successful Communication
Understanding what gets in the way of great communication, learning techniques to help leave positive impressions of ourselves every time we communicate. This can help with university applications, job interviews and improving relationships.
Option 5: Managing Emotions, Letting Go and Mindfulness
We all get upset, angry and emotional from time to time. When we do, we often begin behaving in ways that can negatively impact our relationships and communication. Ultimately this can mean that our emotions may begin controlling us resulting in us not being able to achieve what we want to. In this session we learn tips to manage our emotions, ending the session with a short mindfulness activity.
Option 6: The Future of Digital Business
According to the Digital Market Outlook, by 2025, the e-commerce penetration in the United Kingdom is expected to grow to 89.6% of the population, and Statista (2023) estimates that there would be 678,100 jobs in the UK's Digital Sector. As Digital Commerce continues to thrive, this workshop gives you an overview of how businesses such as Netflix and Facebook have been so successful in continuously reshaping consumer behaviour online. With the boundary between the physical and digital world blurring more every day, we will explore how new technologies are shaping ‘The Future of Digital Business’.
Option 7: Consumer Psychology
With consumer psychology being used more by companies, this workshop looks specifically at the different processes that are being used in order to influence the customer experiences in order for them to select, purchase or use a particular product.
Option 8: Making Human Resource Decisions – Improving Motivation and Engagement
This workshop looks at ways in which companies motivate and engage employees and the benefits that arise from this. With theories of motivation being looked at, the workshop looks at specific well-known businesses and how they use financial and non-financial methods to enhance the employees’ approach to their work.
Option 9: Forensic Accounting and Fraud
This competitive, strategic workshop will test the integrity of future business leaders. Whether it is working together, or sabotaging your competitors, this workshop will test how ruthless participants are prepared to be to stash the cash! Will they get away with it, or will they get caught? Your students discover real cases along the way to highlight the risks, ethical conflicts and opportunities in the business world
Option 10: Business and Marketing Pitch
Business and Marketing: Marketing and Branding. Your students will collaborate to pitch their own business ideas (which relates to our Chartered Institute of Marketing accreditation). Your cohort of students will be set a real-life marketing challenge. In groups of two or three they will apply the learning from their college courses to the problem set, with the top three groups presenting their ideas to the Business and Marketing staff.
Option 11: Enterprise and Business Planning
Using authentic examples, this workshop looks to explain what the characteristics of an entrepreneur are, how they identify business opportunities and how they develop a successful business plan. The workshop uses a variety of case studies to highlight the successes of various entrepreneurs.
Option 12: Making Marketing Decisions – Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning
A workshop that brings to life the approaches of various international businesses and how they use segmentation (Geographics, Demographics, Psychographics and Behavioural) to target their potential markets and how they position themselves in comparison with their competitors. As well as traditional marketing (the marketing mix), we look at digital marketing, technological developments and brand awareness.
In this session, students will practically explore the relationships between generations by comparing expectations and stereotypes of younger people (Generation Z) by older generations (millennials, generation X, Baby Boomers) in popular print media.
Option 1: New Build - Construction and Civil Engineering
By designing their own ‘new build’ town using real-life engineering information, students will observe planning rules and regulations as well as keeping within their budget to build a perfect village.
Option 2: Build the Da Vinci Bridge
Group size 6-12
Do you fancy building a large scale self-supporting bridge? Leonardo Da Vinci showed that it was possible to build a bridge just from timber logs with simple notches in them. This exercise allows a team of 10 or so students to build a large scale – 3m long bridge – simply using poles and no ties. Build it and then test it to see how much weight it will carry – you’ll be surprised.
Duration: 60 minutes.
This session is suitable for students with an interest in Civil Engineering and Construction.
Option 3: Tower of Power
Group size: 6-12.
This teamwork activity requires participants to work together to build a tower from a set of building blocks, by using ropes alone. The team players have to coordinate their actions to be able to move the wooden blocks with the crane they have to form a tower. This can only be solved by precise planning, good communication and well-organised teamwork. Not as easy as it sounds, especially if you don’t have a full team.
Duration: 60 minutes.
This session is suitable for students with an interest in Civil Engineering Construction Management and Construction Project Management.
Students will do a full environmental survey of their own classrooms in accordance with Health and Safety guidelines and calculate the amount of energy being lost through the walls.
Students with an interest in Art, Design or Fashion will take part in an outfit design workshop. Taking inspiration from real life models to create their own fashion designs modelled on a piece of fruit.
Please note this activity is not suitable for students with an allergy to bananas.
This practical design activity will use ‘games design theory’ to design and construct a ‘quest’ for a game, where students will then populate it with their own characters, objects and story line to bring to life.
Our team can work with you in college to deliver quality and high impact activities. We aim to raise the engagement and aspirations of students and allow them to make informed decisions about their future.
Option 1. UCAS Personal Statement Presentation or Workshop
Max group size 20 for the workshop, unlimited group size for presentation.
This informative session will introduce students to the UCAS application form, explain the application timeline and focus on how to write an effective personal statement. This session can be delivered as a presentation or as a workshop.
This session is available all year.
Option 2. UCAS Personal Statement 1-2-1’s
We are available to offer a bespoke personal statement checking service either via an appointment system or as a drop-in. Please contact the team for more information.
This session is available from September to January.
Participants will put their analysis skills to the test using primary sources to solve a fictious murder mystery committed right here on UCLan Preston Campus.
Perfect for students with an interest in Art, Interior Design or Architecture. In this practical furniture and product design activity, students will take inspiration from a ‘client’ brief to create a bespoke piece of miniature furniture.
Students will get hands-on with Rosetta Stone language software which will teach them the basics of a range of different languages.
Please note that this session requires a computer suite.
Participants will learn about Human Rights by unlocking a mystery related to an imprisoned individual. Throughout the session, students will piece together evidence to document specific human rights abuses in a fictional conspiracy story.
Taking inspiration from professional photographers, students will consider how elements of their own personality and interests can be reflected in their own self-portrait.
By conducting their own investigation into how different types of distractions can affect the ability to remember and using cutting edge real-life UCLan psychological research as a guide, students will display results into a research paper format. Students will be invited to submit their results to our Psychology academic tutors for feedback.
Using up to date ‘Youth and Community Work’ theory, participants will explore the different communities around the UK and consider how they may relate to larger British contemporary society.