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 eliaison@uclan.ac.uk.
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.
Watch your students enhance their decision-making skills 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.
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.