色花堂

Our Additional Learning Support听& Library & Learning Support aim to ensure students are self-motivated, independent, lifelong learners and deliver useful worshops on topics that will give you that extra help with your course of studies, including such areas as: referencing, exam techniques, time management and much more. ResLife色花堂 promote these sessions and recommend that take you take advantage of these FREE extras only available for听色花堂 students!听

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Ready, Steady, Cook!? Master Chef Classes? Come Dine with me between halls? Christmas Meal Competition?

Learning the skill of cooking is a MUST when moving away for the first time to University. Here at ResLife色花堂听HQ not only do we provide recipes on our social media pages, but we also bring in Chefs to teach you a thing or two about whipping up some tasty grub with your flatmates. Our 鈥楥ome Dine with Me' sessions run through the year in which flats sign up to go to other flats and take turns cooking a meal for each other. Much like the popular T.V show, we film the sessions to play back for the students simply for some good old fashion banter! Mate Chef Classes involves us bring the professionals to you, getting local chefs to come in and show students how to cook together. As we close in towards the Christmas period, those (mainly international) students staying behind for Christmas are provided the chance to get together and compete in the Christmas Meal Competition! Learning to cook a traditional English roast dinner!

Who from 色花堂 will be the next Jamie Oliver?

Transitioning from college/sixth form to University life and living away from home for the first time can be a real shock!听 Inevitably, we know that some students run into disputes over initially minor matters involving听communal cleaning, noise, and theft of things like bread and milk, which, when left to fester, can escalate into major crises cause real problems. When ResLife色花堂 HQ receives reports of these kind our first response is to encourage you听to work it out between yourselves, as this is the best for the longterm and how you will learn the most from these very normal situations. However, if you've tried that, and tried it again but things are getting really tricky then we can step in and mediate to give you general advice on how you could resolve the situation yourselves. We won't do it for you, though!

鈥淓ven Peter Pan had to grow up one day!鈥�

Leading up to your first day University can be daunting, and everyone knows that there is no magical money tree, especially whilst studying and living at University! This being said, if managed well, you can flourish throughout your time at 色花堂 and not run into money trouble鈥� Here at ResLife色花堂 HQ we run focus groups and collated information from current students that have given their top tips for you to bear in mind before coming to 色花堂 to save the pennies:

Create a finances spreadsheet and keep to it!

鈥淕et onto excel and make a spreadsheet of your forecasted budget so you know what you expect to spend over the coming term. I鈥檓 not talking kitchen utensils and on off costs such as your bedding, your parents can sort that out for you if you鈥檙e lucky ;) Write down your weekly/monthly expenses such going out/socialising, transport, food, gym membership, sports membership, clothes, course materials and all that jazz. But be honest with yourself!听

Jessica Burton | Business Studies

Take the hard cash out of the machine week-by-week!

鈥淪pending money with your trusty contactless card can be all too easy, OOHHHH SOOO EASY! Don鈥檛 be fooled, take the cash that you want to spend each week out of the machine and don鈥檛 spend over this, by the end of the week you will feel much better about yourself. This I found extremely helpful as it allowed me to realise exactly what I was spending each day, and not get that extra coffee when I didn鈥檛 really need it鈥� 听

Leonne Thuranira |

Food, food and more food!

鈥滷ood is important people, yet so many of my friends, including me, crack open the beans on toast each week as we spent too much money on things we didn鈥檛 really need. My top tips; firstly, head for the reduced shelf at the right time, just before the shops close, you can get some tasty deals!听 Secondly, when doing your weekly shop, make sure you are not hungry! I used to shop after the gym, bad move, my bill was always, always more expensive. Lastly, cook in bulk with your flatmates, not only is this way cheaper but its good fun and means you get into the kitchen and socialise!鈥� 听

Ellie Papworth | IT Management

Get a student job and become an RA!

鈥淎s an RA my-self having a job at Uni brings you in a healthy income and takes lots of the stress away. The simple correlation between those that work part-time and have money and those that do not work at all and have none is undeniable. Get a job people! As an RA it is the highest paid student job and you can earn lots and lots, it鈥檚 a no brainer to apply!鈥�

Sho Kubota | Accounting & Finance