geography field trip

While our Year 10 GCSE geographers recently enjoyed a rewarding field trip to Gwynedd, today it was the turn of our Year 12 cohort to conduct a day of Physical Geography investigation and research.

They are pictured above, and in the photographs that follow, engaging in a day's study of landscape systems in the stunning environs of Cwm Idwal, North Wales.

The programme for the day incorporated a tour of the glacial landforms and features, and measurements of moraine deposits. Our students have been learning about the integrated study of earth surface processes, landforms and resultant landscapes within the conceptual framework of a systems approach, and the exploration conducted on field trips is crucial to developing an understanding of these processes and to acquiring essential skills in data analysis and collection.

Case studies are key to the course, and enrich our students' knowledge and understanding of these processes, and fieldwork skills are core to the final examination.

The weather was extremely wet, with gusts of up to 45mph, but our Geography staff share that the students were incredible: morale was high and there were lots of positive vibes all round, well done!