Year 11 Fieldwork: Cardingmill Valley, Shropshire
Year 11 Geographers have had three fantastic days in the field this week as part of the Controlled Assessment data collection process. This year we're investigating how and why river landforms vary along a river's long-profile, focusing on the processes that have resulted in such a varied landscape. As we walked the full length of the river from Light Spout Hollow to the Cardingmill Valley car park we could really appreciate how the river's form was varying.
Although the river was incredibly low, due to the UK's dry summer, we did get a chance to get our wellies wet and splash around whilst collecting our data. Wellies varied from the classic green, to spotty ones, stripy ones, to one pair covered in liquorice allsorts!!
We'll soon be starting to gather the data together and start the analysis process. Let's hope for some decent results and excellent final projects!
Year 11 Geographers have had three fantastic days in the field this week as part of the Controlled Assessment data collection process. This year we're investigating how and why river landforms vary along a river's long-profile, focusing on the processes that have resulted in such a varied landscape. As we walked the full length of the river from Light Spout Hollow to the Cardingmill Valley car park we could really appreciate how the river's form was varying.
Although the river was incredibly low, due to the UK's dry summer, we did get a chance to get our wellies wet and splash around whilst collecting our data. Wellies varied from the classic green, to spotty ones, stripy ones, to one pair covered in liquorice allsorts!!
We'll soon be starting to gather the data together and start the analysis process. Let's hope for some decent results and excellent final projects!
Year 12 Geography Residential to Nettlecombe Court
On the 17th March 2011 the Year 12 Geographers embarked on the annual residential fieldwork trip. It was a four day trip which gave us the chance to undertake compulsory fieldwork in preparation for our AS studies, as well as explore a variety of rural, urban and coastal environments. Luckily, we had warm and pleasant weather which made the visit even more enjoyable as we spent the majority of the time outdoors. We visited coastal locations such as Minehead and Porlock Bay to collect information which we could then use in the classroom. As well as the coastal locations, on the way back to school on Sunday we stopped in Bristol to evaluate the rebranding scheme around the Floating Harbour.
The trip allowed us to investigate the impact of tourism on coastal resorts, look at coastal mangement strategies for a variety of locations within the Exmoor National Park, as well as undertake primary research into how rural areas are rebranding themselves to generate investment and opportunites for the rural areas.
We stayed in an 18th Century manor house called Nettlecombe Court, which was deep in beautiful Somerset countryside. Whilst on our residential we had a high experienced tutor called Nic,who helped us a lot with our exam preparations. At the end of the four days, we were all ready for a well earned rest, so most of us slept on the way back to catch up on sleep ready for school the next day!
Jane (13Z)
