Geography Field Trip

Posted: 20/03/2015

On Thursday 20th March, 34 A2 and IBDP Geographers embarked on a field trip to Birmingham. Pupils were set to work straight away as they completed a study of decline and redevelopment along the A38 corridor.

In Birmingham they were given a presentation and walking tour of the Lee Bank/Park Central area by a representative from Optima Community Association, a local Housing Association. This was a fantastic opportunity for pupils to see re-development in action, asking some perceptive questions along the way.

In the afternoon pupils looked at urban conservation in the Jewellery Quarter before completing a walking tour of central Birmingham covering sites such as Millennium Point, Symphony Hall, Brindley Place and the new Library of Birmingham, where they went out on to the roof terrace and got an excellent cityscape view.

Pupils were grateful for a refreshment stop in the Bull Ring which also enabled them to do some celebrity spotting. The trip allowed pupils to put the theory from lessons, into reality and develop case studies which hopefully will be useful in the final A2/IBDP examination. It enabled pupils to see that Geography is all around them!