Geography Field Trip

Posted: 24/09/2015

On Wednesday 23rd September, the Upper Fourth Geographers travelled to a sunny, but chilly, Carding Mill Valley near Church Stretton, Shropshire to take part in a field day. This was an excellent start to their GCSE Geography course.

Pupils undertook a river study to explore how channel characteristics change with movement downstream. They investigated cross sectional area, bed load characteristics and the velocity of the river. In addition, they explored the ideas of conflicts within the valley and completed a range of tasks ranging from field sketching to completing a conflict matrix and landscape evaluations.

 It was a really enjoyable day for both pupils and staff and allowed first-hand experience of the Water on the Land unit of the GCSE course.