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May edition of staff newsletter from the Student Wellbeing Team
Posted on behalf of: The Student Wellbeing Team
Last updated: Friday, 9 May 2025
Welcome to our newsletter for staff to facilitate awareness and support for students.
Mental Health Awareness Week:
Mental health awareness week is from Monday 12th May until Saturday 18th May and celebrates how being part of a community can protect our mental health. Please familiarise yourself with events being run for students so that you can recommend them to your students.
Cooking for Wellbeing:
The Student Engagement and Enhancement team are hosting a free cooking class for students centred around food for wellbeing for Mental Health Awareness week. The theme this year is community, and what better way to honour that than by building community through cooking and sharing food with their peers.
If you come across any students who could do with this break, please send them the below link for them to sign up
15 May 2025; 17:00 - 20:00
Community Kitchen Community Base
113 Queens Road
BN1 3XG
These cooking classes usually cost around £70 per person, but the Belong at Sussex team have covered this cost so that you can enjoy it for free. We only ask that you honour your spot if are offered one and cancel at least 24 hours beforehand to allocate your spot to someone else from the waiting list.
Pornography Use:
The student wellbeing team has put together some information about the impact of excessive pornography use both on yourself and on others for the Student Wellbeing canvas site. If this comes up with your students, please refer them to this resource. You can enrol onto the site here and find the information there.
Wellbeing Walks:
Take a Brain Break – Join a Wellbeing Walk!
- Friday May 9, 1-2pm
- Wednesday May 14, 1-2pm
- Thursday May 22, 1-2pm
- Wednesday May 28, 1-2pm
Starting from Library Square, each walk will explore different parts of our campus boundary and the nearby beautiful Stanmer Park.
The walks will be led by members from Wellbeing, Res Life, and the Student Engagement & Enhancement team.
All students are welcome with an accessible route planned- we hope to see as many students as possible there!
Please let us know if you plan to come: https://tinyurl.com/yputme24
To help fuel student’s focus this exam season, Sussex Uni Food is bringing back its free purple berry breakfast bowls - starting Tuesday 6 May 2025! Please do let students know that they can access this with their student ID.
Study Spaces This May – Worthing & Sussex Campus:
The Student Engagement and Enhancement team have arranged some off campus study spaces – please feel free to refer students to them.
On Sussex Campus
Come along for a mix of quiet and chatty study rooms, chair yoga sessions, and an optional walk and Falmer Bar hangout to wind down afterwards.
Location: Fulton 103, 104 & 107
Dates: Tuesday 6 May & Thursday 8 May
Time: 10am – 4pm
Free fruit, drinks, and study resources provided. Everyone welcome!
In Worthing
Perfect for Worthing-based students looking for a quiet, local space to study.
Location: Meeting Room 2, Worthing Library
Dates: Tuesday 6 May & Friday 16 May
Time: 10am – 4pm
Quiet study space, snacks, drinks, and revision resources available.