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Please note at Christ's we have an IT upgrade over the weekend and cannot send, see or reply to emails between Thursday evening and Monday afternoon (13 April). Any questions should be directed to Ellie at King's slo@kings.cam.ac.uk at this time. Thank you! 14 April 13:30 | Short email update circulated about what to expect today. If you can't see it, check spam! 9 April (17:52) | SESSION CHOICES TIME! You have received an email with the information about telling us your subject session preference. Please make sure you read the information before submitting them. Please complete the preferences form no later than 12pm on Monday 13 April. If you miss this, we may randomly allocate you where spaces remain in sessions. 9 April (16:45) | Everyone should now have had confirmation of their college! Please make sure you turn up to the right one when you arrive next week. 31 March |We're sending out forms for those in the later batch of accepted places, and final reminders for those who have missed the original deadline/missed some forms... We'll also be sending confirmation emails to those who have already completed forms. Please bear with us! 20 March | Email with forms to be completed sent 16 March | Decisions sent! Please complete the reply form to let us know if you accept your place. |
The World of Words Residential is due to take place in Cambridge from 16-17 April 2025. The event programme will be circulated closer to the time of the event, to students who have been selected, including a survey to select the academic sessions you'd prefer to attend.
Depending on the accommodation room you are allocated, you will stay at either Christ's or at King's. You can still plan your travel to get to central Cambridge, we're only a few minutes walk from one another so do not delay making your travel arrangements until you're allocated a college - just crack on!
When do I need to be there for?
The first session will begin at 14:30. You will be able to sign in and drop bags off from 14:00. With this in mind, you should aim to arrive in central Cambridge (i.e. factor in time from the car park/train station to the centre!) by 14:00 at the latest. If you arrive significantly earlier than 13:30, you may be able to store your bags and spend some time exploring Cambridge/getting lunch - we will provide more information in April about this. Don't panic about delays on the day - it happens, and only worth stressing if you need to at the time!
Overnight accommodation on Wednesday 15th April
We will be contacting students based on distance/travel time priority; there are limited rooms available for an additional night.
Finishing Time
We expect to be fully wrapped up by 14:30. We do not recommend booking return travel before 15:15, so you have sufficient time to say bye to people,and get where you need to go. You should also think about whether you would like time to wander around Cambridge - our schedule is very packed so unfortunately (and unusally!) we won't be able to offer free time to go out into the city in the 24-hour period of the programme. Therefore, please factor this in for the morning of the 16th, or afternoon of the 17th!
Thursday 16th April - Day 1
14:00-14:30 - arrival period, get registered and seated for introduction
14:30-15:30 - welcome sessions and icebreakers
15:45-16:45 - Academic Session 1
17:00-17:30 - Tour of Christ's College
17:30-19:00 - return to host college, check into rooms, dinner
19:30-20:30 - "Ask a Student" Subjects Fair
20:30-22:30 - Social Activity and Free Time in College
22:30 - return to bedrooms
Friday 17th April - Day 2
07:30-09:00 - breakfast and registration
09:00-09:45 - Tour of King's
10:00-11:00 - Academic Session 2
11:15-12:15 - Academic Session 3
12:30-13:15 - Lunch
13:30-14:30 - Final Session: Careers, Next Steps and Q&A
It is your responsibility to get yourself to and from Cambridge. We have advice on getting here via various forms of transport on our How to Get to Christ's page. Please read it!!
Tips for trains: the 16-17 railcard costs £30 and gets you 50% of train travel for a year (16-25 railcard gets a third off)!
If you're struggling with working out the best option for your travel, please do get in touch with us; we are experienced with students coming to our events from all over the UK, as well as travelling places ourselves! You can write to either Ellie at Christ's access@christs.cam.ac.uk or Ellie at King's slo@kings.cam.ac.uk. Please remember to tell us in the email what event it's for (World of Words) because we're running a lot in the same period!
Students currently eligible for government-funded free school meals, students with experience in care, and refugee students are eligible for financial support with travel. We will be in touch separately with those students.
As the schedule for this event is quite busy, we're prioritising the opportunity to attend academic taster sessions whilst you're with us, over more general information type sessions. We know that for some people, they will already have had these and may find them repetitive, but if you haven't (most wont'!) don't fear - there are lots of these available online for you to attend as suits you.
We recommend that you consider signing up for and attending the following webinar opportunities (where multiple dates are listed, it is the same session!):
Cambridge for Beginners
Understanding Student Finance
Personal Statements & Competitive Applications
The three above are part of the Christ's Regular Webinar Series.
These webinars will cover a lot of the basics and provide an opportunity to ask questions. We'll also be recommending some web pages for you to read through before the residential, to cover some of the most common queries we get an ultimately open up time for even more questions!
Back to World of Words residential page