Congratulations on becoming a member of Liverpool University Veterinary Faculty! The next three or five years will be worth every bit of effort you put in to get to this point, and will probably be the best years of your life!

This section of the site has been designed specially for you as freshers and contains all the information you require for the first week with regards to joining LUVS/LVS and taking part in the introductory events during the Vet Freshers Week.

Your freshers pack will give you details of where you need to be from when you come to Liverpool. This is the first chance you have to meet the LUVS/LVS committees and it is important that you attend the official faculty tours so that you can get to grips with the University and Faculty lay-out, and also to ask the committee of any queries you might have regarding the university, faculty or LUVS/LVS. The tours will be conducted by a member of the committee so you will have plenty of time to probe them for information!

Click on the tabs above to find out more about being a fresher.

Liverpool University Veterinary Society
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Leahurst Veterinary Society

Freshers Welcome Party Information

A Freshers welcome party is held every year by the Leahurst Veterinary Society (LVS) and Liverpool University Veterinary Society (LUVS) to welcome new students to the Faculty of Veterinary Science. The party consists of a series of events held during Freshers Week. These will help you get to know and bond with other veterinary students.

All the events are carefully planned according to the Faculty's code of conduct for social events. They will be carefully monitored and staff will be present at most of the events. It is up to you to decide how involved you want to be. There is no pressure to participate in all the events and you are free to withdraw at any point. This will not have any impact on your standing within the course, or with other students or staff.

It would spoil the surprise to let you know what is happening this year, but previous Welcome Parties have included meals out with other students, pub evenings, head shaving and outdoor games that may involve mud, water and tunnels. Food, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will also be provided. All games played throughout the welcome party are approved in advance by the attending member of staff and last year's LUVS and LVS presidents to ensure that you are not put at risk of physical injury.

You are under no obligation to drink alcohol. If you choose to, please drink sensibly and safely. Please contact the organisers if you experience any disabilities or medical conditions (for instance allergies or phobias) so that we can help ensure that everyone can participate in the event. You can also speak to the organisers or staff present on the day if you don't want to take part in any events for any reason. The organisers and staff will handle personal information with sensitivity and in confidence.

We hate to be yet another person asking for money but LUVS membership is worth every penny and is lifelong! The membership fee for this year is yet to be confirmed (well no one has told me yet at least). The memership includes subs to AVS (the Association of Veterinary Students) and IVSA (International Veterinary Student Association), as well as allowing free entry to all your fresher events to join in the fun. Furthermore, it allows LUVS to carry on and be the prestigious and successful society it still is to this day.

LUVS has supported vet students from all backgrounds whether they are straight from school or graduates, overseas or British students and is there to help you to gain as little or as much as you would like from vet school life.

To join, please send your cheque payable to L.U.V.S with your name, address and telephone number on the back and two passport photos with it, to the following address:

Faculty of Veterinary Science
Leahurst
Veterinary Teaching Hospital
Chester High Road
Neston
CH64 7TE

If you have any queries from now until the start of term please do not hesitate to contact me by the e-mail or phone number shown at the top of this letter. Unfortunatley you wont be able to become a member of our website until you have a Liverpool University email address which you should get during your first week here, at which time we will let you know how to register.

I shall reiterate again, CONGRATULATIONS! You have made it to vet school. Enjoy the rest of your summer and both the committee and I look forward to seeing you in September.

Best Wishes

Lorien Waterer
LUVS President.

As a Fresher in waiting you are now able to become a member on our website. All you need is to have a University of Liverpool email address. If you already have a working email address please use the register link at the top right corner of this page to become a member of our site. If have not yet obtained your email address then please follow these instructions:

• Go to: http://www.liv.ac.uk/register
• Enter the details requested and click next (your Card Number is your Student ID which will have been given to you in your confirmation pack).
• Note down your username and email address and enter a password, click complete registration.
• You can now register with us here: http://liverpoolvets.com/register. When entering your email, please use the username you have just been given followed by @liv.ac.uk, this will look something like this: xp0u604e@liv.ac.uk. This is a valid way of writing your email address and we prefer it as it is the easiest to authenticate.
• A confirmation email will then be sent, please go to http://webmail.liv.ac.uk, enter your New University username and password to access your email and click on the confirmation link that we sent you.

For more information on registering for a University email account and other University Computer Services, please visit this page: http://liv.ac.uk/vets/freshers/, and view the "Computing Services - the Essential Guide" document. This page also has several other useful documents for a new Veterinary Student.