Supporting students

This exam season wellbeing planner helps students to look after their wellbeing while studying for exams. This works particularly well in conjunction with the monthly wellbeing calendar.

This gratitude journal helps to encourage positive thinking by recording three good things about each day.

This kindness journal helps to improve wellbeing by encouraging acts of kindness and providing some useful ideas.

Here you'll find posters for each of the individual ways to wellbeing. For more resources (or if you're creating your own material), visit the University brand visual identity page.

Connect

Feeling close to others is key to our happiness. Promote Connect using this poster.

‌Give

Helping someone else can make us feel good. Promote Give using this poster.

Take Notice

Living in the present can increase our wellbeing. Promote Take Notice using this poster.

Be Active

Physical activity is proven to help us feel and think positively. Promote Be Active using this poster.

Be Healthy

A healthy body supports a healthy mind. Promote Be Healthy using this poster.

Learn and Discover

Learning something new can improve our wellbeing. Promote Learn and Discover using this poster. 

The Six Ways to Wellbeing guide to using the Six Ways at home can help to spark inspiration for including wellbeing activities into a daily routine.

You can share this planner to encourage students to have a healthy sleep routine and this clickable infographic full of useful information on how to maximise sleep quality. 

Change and uncertainty can make us feel anxious, fearful, frustrated and even angry - these are normal and natural responses to have. Evidence suggests that accepting change and uncertainty, and our emotional responses to these, is one of the most effective ways of supporting our wellbeing.

Change and uncertainty can also directly impact various aspects of life, including routine, mindset, home environment, eating habits and sleep pattern. We’ve collated our previous resources, and created a few new things, to help support these areas on our student support website.

Character strengths are the positive parts of our personality that impact how we think, feel and behave. A knowledge of character strengths promotes self-awareness and acceptance of oneself.

The benefit for students knowing what their signature strengths are is that they can exercise these in their personal and academic lives, allowing them to feel an increased sense of wellbeing. By knowing their lesser strengths, they can understand their past experiences better and learn how to further develop these strengths for the future.

We have created this new page on our Student Support microsite that is all about character strengths that you can direct students to. The page contains links to a number of tests that students can take to find out their character strengths, as well as tips on how they can build on their character strengths.

It can be challenging to maintain our financial wellbeing when unexpected costs or reductions to our income occur. The last few years have brought financial concerns for many people, and worries around money can be very straining and unsettling.

Conversations around money can sometimes be awkward and uncomfortable, but if financial concerns become overwhelming, it is always a good idea to speak to someone else and seek support.

We are aware of some of the financial difficulties that students have been facing, so we have created this Unexpected financial needs page that provides information and resources for some of these specific challenges.

We have also created a budget planner to help students manage their finances.

We would also like to encourage students who are facing financial hardship, particularly those from more vulnerable groups, to apply for the Unexpected Financial Needs Fund.

We've identified two of the ways concentration might be most affected and have provided some resources to help. 

We might be finding it hard to concentrate because we’re experiencing challenging thoughts or emotions (e.g. anxiousness). Another reason for losing focus might be distractions in our workspace environment. It’s normal for us to get wrapped up in what’s happening around us.

You can find resources in one web page Motivation and focus.

Here you'll find useful information to help students who are feeling homesick.