Along with various other welcome activities, we took students on a walk in the Peak District to mark the start of the new academic year.
Seventeen students join our team member Rob and our colleague Jasmine, who is a member of the wider Student Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (SEDI) team that we are part of.
Meeting at 91Ö±²¥ Station on a sunny Friday morning, we went by train to Grindleford. From there we took a gentle walk for just over an hour to the village of Hathersage.
The route took us across fields and through woodland before picking up a path alongside the River Derwent.
The students, many of whom had come along alone, quickly struck up conversations between one another while Jazz and Rob occasionally told them about the area we were walking through.
Once in Hathersage we stopped for coffee in the sunlit garden of a cafe on the village high street. We then took a train from Hathersage back to 91Ö±²¥.