MyEHU… always something going on…
If you’re on campus (or not!) at the moment – look out for our exciting range of in- person and virtual activities, events and offers taking place over the next few weeks.
Whether sport’s your thing, you want to learn a new skill, pick up a burger from our barbecue, have competitive fun with your friends or just treat yourself to a free ice cream – there’s plenty of ways to get involved!
We’ve brought together a full programme with something going on most days of the week – some you need to book in advance and some you just turn up to.
Here’s all the details you need to know for this week:
Monday 17 May
Abs, Core and More, 7.15 – 8.00am, Dance Studio
These classes are an intensive session of core-blasting direct ab work to help flatten, tone and develop your abdominal muscles.
Lean Lifting, 12.10 – 12.50pm, Dance Studio
Dedicated to enhancing the use of weight lifting technique to improve strength and tone the whole body.
Creative Writing Workshop, 4.00 – 5.00pm, Zoom
Writing can be a great way to get creative and de-stress. It can encourage people to write and discuss feelings, or to explore creativity in a way they may not have done so before. Are you new to writing, or someone who has always wanted to try it but never had the chance to? Check out this introductory session to Creative Writing!
Running Club, 5.30 – 6.30pm, Track
All abilities welcome at this group running session.
Lean Lifting, 5.30 – 6.15pm, Dance Studio
Dedicated to enhancing the use of weight lifting technique to improve strength and tone the whole body.
Spin (Party), 6.30 – 7.25pm, Dance Studio
Spinning focuses on endurance, and strength at a high intensity. Spin (Party) is an energetic class to get you moving and using those muscles!
Circuits, 7.00 – 8.00pm, Sports Hall
A combination of high intensity cardio and resistance exercise which allows you to work at your own personal level to achieve your fitness goals.
Total Tone, 7.40 – 8.25pm, Dance Studio
Total tone involves completing reps using a choice of weights and is designed to help strengthen and tone your muscles.
Tuesday 18 May
KettleFit, 7.15 – 7.50am, Dance Studio
Join our dynamic kettlebell based class – a combination of high intensity toning and cardiovascular exercise to provide a complete body workout.
The Garden Games, 12.00 – 2.00pm, Boulevard
Join the Edge Hill Sport team for Croquet, Boules, Giant Chess, Giant Connect 4, Swingball or Badminton in maximum groups of 6. A perfect way to ditch the exam stress and take care of your wellbeing.
Begin to Spin, 12.10 – 12.50pm, Dance Studio
Spinning focuses on endurance, and strength at a high intensity. Begin to spin is an introduction to spinning and high intensity training.
Yoga, 3.00 – 4.00pm, Dance Studio
Yoga focuses on strength, flexibility and breathing to boost your physical and mental wellbeing.
Spin (Party), 5.15 – 6.00pm, Dance Studio
Spinning focuses on endurance, and strength at a high intensity. Spin (Party) is an energetic class to get you moving and using those muscles!
Legs, Bums and Tums, 6.15 – 7.15pm, Dance Studio
Legs, bums and tums is a full body aerobic workout that aims to tone up your thighs, bum and stomach in this fun, focused class.
Step, 7.30 – 8.30pm, Dance Studio
Step class will have you up, around, and down from a platform in different patterns to boost your heart rate and breathing, and strengthen your muscles.
Zumba, 8.45 – 9.30pm, Dance Studio
Zumba is a fitness program that combines Latin and international music with dance moves. Zumba routines incorporate interval training alternating fast and slow rhythms to help improve cardiovascular fitness.
Wednesday 19 May
Connect with Careers
CV Checking, Various Appointments Available, Online
We know, making a CV is hard! Most of us don’t like talking about ourselves and don’t know where to start. Edge Hill Careers offer loads of useful CV building advice on their webpages, with examples and top tips. Just visit their webpages to book.
Apply to be a Bunny Minder, All Day, Online and at Catalyst
For one day only Careers are taking applications for the exclusive Edge Hill Bunny Minder position! Are you energetic? Can you count fast moving objects? Do you like lettuce? Tweet @ehucareers with a couple of sentences about why you think you would be good fit for the job and you could win!
(Please note that this is a competition and Careers do not actually need a bunny minder. But we will give you a nice goody bag if you are picked as their favourite!)
Let’s Talk Croissants (and Careers), 10.00 – 11.00am, Catalyst Ground Floor
Come and have a croissant and coffee on the Catalyst ground floor with Alex from Careers, and he can tell you all about how to find and apply for summer work in your area.
Spring into Success, 1.00 – 2.00pm, Online
Spring into your career with our new graduate support offer for recent Edge Hill graduates: Spring into Success!
In this initial session, we will explain what our graduate support offer includes, how to make the most of the support available from Careers PLUS the option to stay for a CV session – how to create a CV that employers want to read!
Sign up for the session via the Careers Vacancy Portal.
Summer Job Top Tips, 3.00 – 4.00pm, Online
Kath, one of our Employment Advisers, will be running this Q&A and will give you some top tips on where to find suitable jobs in our area but will also give out useful websites for around the country. Feel free to drop in and out any time during the hour to ask your questions.
Approaching Employers, 5.00 – 5.30pm, Online
During this session, one of our Employment Advisers, will give you some top tips on how to find your own work experience, useful websites and how to approach or contact employers. They will also talk about writing a cover letter (or email) and will give some tips on what to put in your CV.
Campus Scavenger Challenge, All Day, Campus-Wide
Love campus? Love a good photo challenge? Then this is the day for you! Head to campus any time on Wednesday 19 May to take part in our scavenger challenge. Find the starting point on the grass outside the SU opposite the hub for your very first clue.
Lean Lifting, 7.15 – 7.50am, Dance Studio
Dedicated to enhancing the use of weight lifting technique to improve strength and tone the whole body.
AM Aerobics, 8.00 – 8.50am, Dance Studio
AM Aerobics offers a total-body workout that aims to develop your endurance, strength and flexibility.
Total Tone, 12.10 – 12.50pm, Dance Studio
Total tone involves completing reps using a choice of weights and is designed to help strengthen and tone your muscles.
Yoga, 2.00 – 3.00pm, Dance Studio
Yoga focuses on strength, flexibility and breathing to boost your physical and mental wellbeing.
Running Improvers, 5.15 – 6.15pm, Track
Perfect session to improve your running time, technique or speed.
Spin (Performance), 5.15 – 6.15pm, Dance Studio
Spinning focuses on endurance, and strength at a high intensity. Spin (Performance) focuses on improving and developing your abilities on the bike.
Pitch Perfect at the Outdoor Cinema, from 6.00pm, The Rose Garden
Outdoor cinema is back! Every day until the end of term the Arts Centre will be bringing you daily screenings out on the Rose Garden grass. To find out more and book your free tickets, click here.
Bootcamp, 6.30 – 7.30pm, Track
Think military style exercise class using a variety of exercises, equipment and different areas of the campus to achieve all over fitness.
Konga, 6.30 – 7.30pm, Dance Studio
Konga is an easy-to-follow, mood-elevating, high intensity fusion of Boxing, Cardio, Dance and Sculpting set to great beats.
Thursday 20 May
Campus Catch-Up!
To celebrate the easing of restrictions this week, we have a special catch-up event.
Join us on campus this Thursday 20 May, between 11.30am and 2.30pm, and take a stroll down the Boulevard and along to the Arts Centre, to get involved or simply savour the atmosphere. There’s loads going on including a free barbecue, and a special showing of the Greatest Showman at our outdoor cinema.
Check out the full line-up here.
Spin (Party), 7.10 – 7.50am, Dance Studio
Spinning focuses on endurance, and strength at a high intensity. Spin (Party) is an energetic class to get you moving and using those muscles!
Day in the Life with Emma, from 11.00am, Facebook
This week Emma takes us with her on a day in her life as a student living in Manchester as life begins to open up again!
The Garden Games, 12.00 – 2.00pm, Boulevard
Join the Edge Hill Sport team on the front lawn for Croquet, Boules, Giant Chess, Giant Connect 4, Swingball or Badminton in maximum groups of 6. A perfect way to ditch the exam stress and take care of your wellbeing.
Body Blast, 12.10 – 12.50pm, Dance Studio
High Intensity Interval Training is a form of cardio exercise that uses short bursts of high intensity activity with short periods of relative rest to challenge your fitness levels.
The Greatest Showman at the Outdoor Cinema, from 2.00pm, The Rose Garden
Outdoor cinema is back! Every day until the end of term the Arts Centre will be bringing you daily screenings out on the Rose Garden grass. To find out more and book your free tickets, click here.
KettleFit, 5.15 – 6.00pm, Dance Studio
Join our dynamic kettlebell based class – a combination of high intensity toning and cardiovascular exercise to provide a complete body workout.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Outdoor Cinema, from 6.00pm, The Rose Garden
Outdoor cinema is back! Every day until the end of term the Arts Centre will be bringing you daily screenings out on the Rose Garden grass. To find out more and book your free tickets, click here.
Spin (Disco), 6.15 – 7.00pm, Dance Studio
Spinning focuses on endurance, and strength at a high intensity. Spin (Disco) is an energetic class to get you moving and using those muscles with a disco twist!
Thursday Hangout, 7.00 – 8.15pm, Discord
Your chance to chat, meet new people and network with other Edge Hill students at our regular social hangout.
Pilates, 7.15 – 8.15pm, Dance Studio
Pilates concentrates on strengthening the body with an emphasis on core strength. This helps to improve your fitness as well as your overall wellbeing.
Zumba, 8.30 – 9.15pm, Dance Studio
Zumba is a fitness program that combines Latin and international music with dance moves. Zumba routines incorporate interval training alternating fast and slow rhythms to help improve cardiovascular fitness.
Friday 21 May
Abs, Core and More, 7.10 – 7.50am, Dance Studio
These classes are an intensive session of core-blasting direct ab work to help flatten, tone and develop your abdominal muscles.
AM Aerobics, 8.00 – 8.50am, Dance Studio
AM Aerobics offers a total-body workout that aims to develop your endurance, strength and flexibility.
Free Ice Cream! From 11.00am, Boulevard
We’re turning sunny days into sunny yays with free ice cream! To get yours, simply pop along to the ice cream van parked on the boulevard.
Pilates, 12.10 – 12.50pm, Dance Studio
Pilates concentrates on strengthening the body with an emphasis on core strength. This helps to improve your fitness as well as your overall wellbeing.
Zumba, 5.30 – 6.15pm, Dance Studio
Zumba is a fitness program that combines Latin and international music with dance moves. Zumba routines incorporate interval training alternating fast and slow rhythms to help improve cardiovascular fitness.
Circuits, 6.00 – 7.00pm, Sports Hall
A combination of high intensity cardio and resistance exercise which allows you to work at your own personal level to achieve your fitness goals.
Wonder Woman 1984 at the Outdoor Cinema, from 6.00pm, The Rose Garden
Outdoor cinema is back! Every day until the end of term the Arts Centre will be bringing you daily screenings out on the Rose Garden grass. To find out more and book your free tickets, click here.
Total Tone, 6.30 – 7.15pm, Dance Studio
Total tone involves completing reps using a choice of weights and is designed to help strengthen and tone your muscles.
Abs, Core and More, 7.30 – 8.15pm, Dance Studio
These classes are an intensive session of core-blasting direct ab work to help flatten, tone and develop your abdominal muscles.
Saturday 22 May
Pilates, 9.15 – 10.15am, Dance Studio
Pilates concentrates on strengthening the body with an emphasis on core strength. This helps to improve your fitness as well as your overall wellbeing.
Morning Mash-Up, 9.15 – 10.15am, Track
A perfect way to start the day a mini circuits session mash-up session tailored to you.
Spin, 10.30 – 11.30am, Dance Studio
Spinning focuses on endurance, and strength at a high intensity.
Coffee and Chat, 12.00 – 2.00pm, Stand inside Hub
Fancy a coffee? Come along for a chat, hangout and a free Starbucks drink on us inside the Hub from 12.00pm!
Hidden Figures at the Outdoor Cinema, from 6.00pm, The Rose Garden
Outdoor cinema is back! Every day until the end of term the Arts Centre will be bringing you daily screenings out on the Rose Garden grass. To find out more and book your free tickets, click here.
Risky Quizness, 8.00 – 9.00pm, Facebook Livestream
Join us once again for our quiz night, this week’s theme? Music! Winner will receive a £10 e-voucher!
Sunday 23 May
Over To You Feature, All Day, Campus Life Facebook and Instagram
Join us online to chat and discuss your favourite activities as we hand over to you across our socials this Sunday.
Spin, 9.15 – 10.15am, Dance Studio
Spinning focuses on endurance, and strength at a high intensity.
Unwind, 10.30 – 11.30am, Dance Studio
Unwind is a calming class which focuses on full body relaxation.
Coco at the Outdoor Cinema, from 2.00pm, The Rose Garden
Outdoor cinema is back! Every day until the end of term the Arts Centre will be bringing you daily screenings out on the Rose Garden grass. To find out more and book your free tickets, click here.
On All Week
Online exercise classes, various times to suit you. A variety of virtual classes streamed via the MyWellness app.
Don’t forget to check this page regularly as we’ll be updating it with a new programme every week!
Check our socials too:
Instagram: @campuslifeehu
Facebook: /EHUCampusLife
*events subject to change