Your students that headed to uni this year will be making the long train journey back to you to celebrate Christmas. It's the end of the first term, which is normally the most exciting and draining. Give them a quick text to check in with them and to invite them over for a cup of coffee. It might be the little encouragement they need after their crazy first term!

In the manic season that is Christmas, remind your returning students to take time, slow down, be still, and be awake.

‘Take time to be aware that in the very midst of our busy preparations for the celebration of Christ’s birth in ancient Bethlehem, Christ is reborn in the Bethlehem’s of our homes and daily lives. Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present’. Edward Hays, A Pilgrim’s Almanac.