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Weekender FAQs
Who comes to Weekenders?
All sorts of young people come to our Weekenders, from all sorts of places.
Our students are curious, individual, thoughtful, bustling, brave, bright, still, adventurous, complicated, quirky and quite often to be found sitting on the stairs reading a book.
Weekender students play made up card games and ukuleles and football and flutes and Dungeons & Dragons. They debate and sing and engineer and collaborate and scribble whole new worlds into notebooks. Sometimes they nap.
What's it like on a Weekender?
The atmosphere is very different to that of some schools and other residentials. There’s absolutely no “them and us”, just “us and us”, whether that’s between the students themselves, or between students and the course leaders.. Everyone is on first name terms and you do not need to put your hand up to ask to go to the loo.
What are the sleeping arrangements?
You’ll be in a bunk room with other people of the same gender and roughly the same age. All the rooms at the centres we use are between four and eight people. There are toilets and showers. You can explore these on our Venue page.
P4HE Weekender – Schedule
For those of you who like to know what's happening ahead of time, here's the schedule for a weekender.
Times of meals and breaks may wobble a bit, and some activities might over-run a little, but it’s good if we can start activities on time.
It’s an easy building to find your way around. There’s a big room we call MEET, where we meet (very often just for a couple of minutes to make sure people are heading to the right activity). There are smaller rooms for some activities, see floor plan below, and masses of outside space.
Each morning or afternoon, you'll be doing one of the activities from the list of choices. We've wrangled it so that most people have all four of their top 4 choices, and everyone has at least three of them.
Typical Long Weekender (Summer School) Schedule. A regular Weekender runs from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon.
Monday
12.30pm Welcome! Come on in, collect your SHEETS from GREET, find your dorm, make your bed, get comfy, meet your dorm-mates, check the noticeboard for your courses and work out which room they'll be in. If you’re not staying over with us, you’re still very welcome to stay for the evening – otherwise, we’ll see you tomorrow morning.
1:00pm Gather in MEET for introductions
1.15pm Buffet lunch in EAT
2:00pm Courses begin
3.15pm Afternoon break, head to TREATS
3.45pm Courses continue until 5ish
6:00pm Dinner in EAT
7.30pm Gather in MEET to pick Evening Activities
9.30pm Hopefully campfire, if not, something else
11:00pm If you're still up, please go to bed
Tuesday
8.30am Breakfast in EAT
9.30am Courses begin
10.45am Morning break, head to TREATS
11.15am Courses continue
12.30pm Lunch in EAT
2:00pm Courses begin
3.15pm Afternoon break, head to TREATS
3.45pm Courses continue until 5ish
6:00pm Dinner in EAT
7.30pm Gather in MEET to pick Evening Activities
9.30pm Hopefully campfire, if not, something else
11:00pm If you're still up, please go to bed
Wednesday Same as Tuesday until
2pm Escape Artistry
3.15pm Afternoon break - head to SWEET our pop -up ice cream parlour
3.45pm Escape Artistry continues until 5pm ish
6pm Masterchef
8.30pm A film, campfire, or something else chilled out, or just catch up on sleep!
11pm If you're still up, please go to bed
Thursday same as Tuesday until
7.30pmThe Entertainment TAKEYOURSEAT
9.30pm Campfire or something else
11pm If you're still up, please go to bed
Friday
8 to 8.30amPlease strip your bunk, leave SHEETS in corner of MEET and follow instructions on your door for clearing your room
Same as Tuesday until
4.45pm Gather in MEET for goodbyes and group photo
5:00 PMFarewell - See you in October for REPEAT?