Your first week of welcome activities and events is usually the same week as your course induction. You'll be able to join in all sorts of things to help you settle into student life here at SMU. From sports to mental health and wellbeing activities and careers workshops – plus lots more – you'll have plenty of ways to meet new people and get involved in your new community.
Make sure you go to a Student Essentials session, but otherwise see what takes your fancy.
Timetable
- 8-8.30am – Les Mills Fitness Class: Grit Cardio (Dance Studio)
- 12-2pm – Hallstars Dodgeball (Tennis Centre)
- 12.30-12.45pm – Les Mills Fitness Classes - Ab Blast (Dance Studio)
- 1-1.30pm International Orientation (online) session
- 2-3pm – Brew @ 2 (Make someone Smile) (Student Union)
- 5-6pm – SIMMSactive Football (Performance Hall)
- 5.30-6.15pm – Les Mills Fitness Classes - Body Balance (Dance Studio)
- 6-7pm – SIMMSactive Basketball (Performance Hall)
- 8-11pm – Karaoke Night (The 1850)
- 8-8.20am – Les Mills Fitness Class: Yoga (Dance Studio)
- 9am-12pm – Programme inductions
- 12.30-1pm – Les Mills Fitness Class: RPM Cycle (Dance Studio)
- 1-1.30pm – Mindfulness (Student Services)
- 1-2pm – Student Essentials (G7)
- 2-4pm – Faculty Activity (Academic Integrity) (G5 and G7)
- 2-4pm – Pottery Painting: Paint a Mug (the Loft)
- 4-6pm – Faculty Social: Business and Law (The 1850)
- 5-6pm – SIMMSactive Badminton (Performance Hall)
- 7-11pm – Study Abroad Social + Board Games Night (The 1850)
- 8-8.30am – Les Mills Fitness Class: Body Attack (Dance Studio)
- 9am-12pm – Programme inductions
- 12-5pm – Game Day (The 1850 and Sport St Mary's)
- 12.30-12.45pm – Les Mills Fitness Classes - Ab Blast (Dance Studio)
- 2-4pm – Faculty Activity (Academic Integrity) (Waldegrave Drawing Room / D121)
- 4-6pm – Faculty Social - FETTA (The 1850)
- 5-6pm – FETTA Student Advice Panel on Belonging and Community (The 1850)
- 5.30-6.15pm – Les Mills Fitness Classes - Body Pump (Dance Studio)
- 7-10pm – Sports Club Socials (The 1850)
- 8-8.30am – Les Mills Fitness Class: Grit Strength (Dance Studio)
- 9am-12pm – Programme Inductions
- 11am-2pm – Refreshers Fayre (The 1850)
- 12-2.30pm – Commuter Social (Commuter Lounge)
- 12.30-1.15pm – Les Mills Fitness Classes - Body Balance (Dance Studio)
- 1-2pm – Student Essentials (G7)
- 2-4pm – Faculty Activity (Academic Integrity) (G7 / G5 /K217)
- 3-5pm – Let's Grow Together (1850 Pool Room)
- 4-6pm – Faculty Social FSTHS (The 1850)
- 5-6pm – SIMMSactive Mixed Netball (Tennis Centre)
- 5-6pm – SIMMSactive Active4All X Hallstars (Tennis Centre)
- 8-11pm – Pub Quiz (The 1850)
- 8-8.30am – Les Mills Fitness Class: Body Pump (Dance Studio)
- 9-930am – International Orientation (online) session
- 10am-12pm – Bath Bomb Making (L1)
- 12-1pm NSS Launch - Coffee and cakes (Dolce Vita Lounge)
- 12.30-12.45pm – Les Mills Fitness Class: Ab Blast (Dance Studio)
- 2-4pm – Faculty Activity (Academic Integrity) (G7 / G5 / K217)
- 4-6pm – Post Grad Social (The 1850)
- 8pm-1am – Blue and White Club Night (The 1850)
Activity highlight
Pub quiz
Head on down to the 1850 for our first Pub Quiz of the new semester and be in with the chance of being crowned this week's champion and claiming the grand prize.
Bath bomb making
Join us to spend a delightfully relaxed afternoon crating your own personalised bathbombs. We will teach you how to make some colourful lush-grade bathbombs whilst winding back with some music and good company. You don't need to bring anything or have any previous bathbomb or fragrance crafting experience, come on down.
Pottery painting
Mug Painting in the 1850 is back. A lovely way to kick back for an afternoon, get creative and come away with a new ceramic companion for the term ahead. No matter your experience level, our good-friends at Happy Potter will guide you along the whole process as well as provide the paints and the mugs.
Karaoke night
1850 Karaoke is back. Off the back of multiple legendary nights and performances, we're going big with the first karaoke night of the year. Head on down to the 1850 and sign yourself and a friend up to hop on stage and make some unforgettable memories. No experience needed, just a mic in your hand and a song in mind. Don't stress, the lyrics will be on the screen.
Games night
Come on down to the 1850 for a chilled games night, we have a whole library of board games at your disposal. Unwind with some Catan, exploding kittens and UNO or spend the next six and a half hours playing monopoly, whatever you fancy, we have something for everyone.
Lets grow together
We’re thrilled to invite you to our first plant-growing activity in the 1850. Take a load off and relax by nurturing your own pot plant and starting a life-long friendship with a small green friend. We will provide you with the pot, the seed and the knowhow to keep it alive for the term ahead, all you need to do is show up, water it and make some friends along the way. See you there!
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