Place: St Bride Foundation Institute,14 Bride Lane (off Fleet Street), EC4Y 8EQ Cost: £41 per day including refreshments and buffet lunch with a choice of healthy salads and fruit. Programme: Activities include 17 talks, four workshops and eight guided walks. The wide range of subjects includes: Art, Current Affairs, History, Literature, Performing Arts, Music, Sciences, Social Studies. You can see full details in the Summer School Programme
If you are looking forward to summer school well wait no longer; the following information will help you get ready for the booking date and time of Friday 17th March @ 10.00am, when access to the Booking Form will be available
Please note: All links can be downloaded
This is primarily a 4-day residential summer school held at the University of Chichester, although, participants do have the option to be non-residential. Details about the choice of accommodation, costings and payment along with other relevant information can be found on the Course Information sheet.
Just click on Course Information for full details
The participants register on the Monday afternoon and they are with their tutors by 5.00pm for a short introductory session. There is full programme with their chosen subject on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning. The summer school finishes after lunch on Thursday – home time!!
This year we have some favourite courses returning:
• Cycling
• Fun with French – Intermediate
• Mahjong – Beginners
• Mathematics demystified
• Poetry ‘A World of Dreams’
• Ukulele Intermediate (change of level)
The new subjects are:
• Archaeology & Egyptology
• Fizziks is Phun (Physics)
• Irish and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts
• Seated and/or Standing Yoga & Mindfulness
• Walking/Rambling – A Coastal Delight.
Just click on subject for full details
There is a programme of events each evening:
• Monday – Quiz night – getting to know each other and having fun
• Tuesday – Film night on campus – a recent film OR
• Tuesday – TBC
• Wednesday – Speaker – Jane Glennie: “Violet’s Titanic Escape”
Just click on Speaker for full details of events
If you do not have internet access, please contact Jill Haistead on 07939 332542 and the relevant information will be posted to you.
Please read carefully the Course Information sheet on how to book before filling in the Booking Form, available on Friday 17th March @10.00am.
Looking forward to seeing you all
Our monthly talk on March 6th was given by Jo Livingston a Bexley Heath U3A member on the topic of “Odd Corners of London” . This was such a success that although she brought 60 handouts of follow up information with her there still were not enough! She has given us permission to put the handout on the website for others to use. Many thanks to Jo for a very good talk.
Photos of our winners clutching their prizes of a book token each will be with us soon. These Quiz Champions will also have just come to terms with the other part of their prize which is to devise and organise next years Quiz!
Doors open 1.30 as usual with a cup of tea and a biscuit to revive all the contestants available at the end as we all discuss our successes or more commonly what we didn’t know.
CLICK on the link below to book onto any of the talks listed below
- Learn Digital Life Skills: iPhone and iPad Week – 2pm Fri, 6 Jan
- Sleep and Dreams – 2pm Mon, 9 Jan
- The Story of Motown Records – (four-week course) 2pm Tuesdays, 10-31 Jan
- Getting Started With Your Family History – 2pm Wed, 11 Jan
- Learn Digital Life Skills: Social Media Week – 2pm Fri,13 Jan
- Relativity: Numerical Illustrations – 10am Wed, 18 Jan
- Climate Change and Biodiversity – 10am Thu, 19 Jan
- Yoga at Home: Standing or Seated Yoga – 10am Fri, 20 and 27 Jan
- Learn Digital Life Skills: WhatsApp Week – 2pm Fri, 20 Jan
- Our Homes for Our Future – 4pm Tue, 24 Jan
- Staying Safe Online: A u3a Presentation with Q&A – 10am Wed, 25 Jan
- Holocaust Memorial Day: The Stories of George and Renee Morton – 2pmFri, 27 Jan
- Learn Digital Life Skills: Q&A Week – 2pm Fri, 27 Jan
- Exploring World Faiths: in Relation to the Holocaust – 10am Mon, 30 Jan
- Introduction to Cryptic Crosswords – 10am Tue, 31 JanFebruary
- The Geology of Oil and Gas in Britain and around the World (part 3) – 2pm Thu, 2 Feb
- Fashion and Sustainability – 2pm Fri, 3 Feb
- Brain and Behaviour – 2pm Mon, 6 Feb
- Meditation and Mindfulness Series – (six-week course) 10am Tuesdays, 6Feb-14 Mar
- Highlights of the Royal Collection: Coins and Medals – 10am Tue, 7 Feb
- Before the Lindisfarne Gospels – 10am Wed, 8 Feb
- Laughter Yoga 2023 – 10am second Tuesday of every month, 8 Feb-14 Jun
- The Swan: Its Life, Its Nature 7 Its Future (repeat event) 12 noon Fri, 10Feb
- Yiddish Theatre in Eastern Europe, London & New York – 2pm Fri,17 FebIt’s a good idea to make a note of the national u3a Events page and check it regularly to make sure you are in time to book any new talks you are interested in.