Lockdown life with us
Our staff and students adapted very quickly and creatively to life largely indoors. We successfully implemented changes to facilitate social distancing and protect the health of our students and our team. Small amendments to our usual daily arrangements, such as swapping out pastries to individual porridge pots at breakfast, daily cleaning in communal areas and enhanced cleaning in high traffic areas, has made sure our students can continue to relax, study and enjoy life at this time.
Staff have continued to be available and present, 24/7, at each of our Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester locations. Like other communities around the country, our entire Unilife community has joined in with the regular ‘Thursday Clap’ to thank keyworkers, carers and NHS staff.
Staying connected
With high speed WiFi in every studio, and throughout the building, our students have been able to remain connected and keep themselves busy online - family FaceTimes, virtual quizzes with friends and challenging contenders on PS4/Xbox have been really popular activities. Feedback from our students is that the TV with free Netflix and free TV licence that’s in their self-contained luxury studio, has been very much appreciated!
Virtual events calendar
Whether our Unilife students are here with us or at home with family, it is easy to still connect with the Unilife Team and community with our virtual event calendar. Here’s how you can get involved:
To kick the week off, on Mondays, we ask you to share your best moments of the weekend with us. Whether you chilled at the beach, took to your pedals, watched back to back box-sets or caught up on your studies, we’d love to see what you’ve been up to. Don’t forget to tag @unilifestudent #unilifestudentliving on social media.
Tuesdays, we join Jennie at 3pm and together, let’s go with the flow, and do her Hatha Yoga Flow class LIVE on our Facebook page. Treat yourself to 60 minutes of YOU time when you can relax your body and mind from the comfort of your own mat. It’s for all abilities, so go on, give it a go!
On Wednesday, we change up a few gears and join Kim for a 30 minute ‘Abs and Legs’ workout. She’s LIVE on our Facebook page and her ‘no-equipment required’ fitness session is guaranteed to burn!
Thursdays is all about what’s hot on our screens, with Vicky and Ben’s weekly Netflix Hits LIVE Facebook broadcast. Our TV and film loving duo welcome anyone to join them to discuss what you’ve been watching during lockdown. They love to receive recommendations too – review and rate your fave movies, series and documentaries over on our Instagram page - @unilifestudent.
As the weekend approaches, we really heat things up with our Friday afternoon LIVE online Kahoot quiz. At 3pm, our Unilife team go head to head with anyone who fancies themselves as Mastermind champions. Hosted by Vicky, this is a fun online trivia quiz and everyone is welcome – you’ve got to be in it to win it, so tune in Fridays at 3pm to get your brain teased!
Is there anything you’d like to see added to our virtual online calendar?
Let us know, and we’ll see what we can do!
