Over the weekend of September 16 and 17, the new cohort of students has been arriving in Sheffield and moving into their uni homes.
The outdoor city, the steel city, the greenest city in the UK, the home of football... whatever you know it as, Sheffield is a brilliant place for students, as shown by the fact that around 60,000 choose to live here during term time.
We went over to Endcliffe Village, part of the University of Sheffield's biggest halls, where nearly 4,000 first years have been arriving to this weekend.
1. Freshers arrival
A new cohort of first year students has been arriving today at Endcliffe Village, the University of Sheffield's main halls. |
2. The Edge Bar
Upstairs in the building at the centre of Endcliffe Village, the bar is packed with new students, along with their parents and loved ones before they make their way back home. |
3. Student staff
The staff are primarily university students, many of whom will have moved out of these halls just a few months ago, who today are tasked with negotiating crowds of teenagers alongside the hundreds of cars, driven by parents and full of their belongings. |
4. Key collection
In an organisational feat, the accommodation services team must keep track of over 4,000 keys as they are taken out and then handed back in at the end of the summer term - not to mention, the many of which are lost along the way. |