Geography Fieldwork

Lower Sixth Geographers investigated eco systems and urban regeneration in preparation for their independent research projects.

As part of the A Level Geography syllabus, students complete an individual coursework project on a curriculum area of interest. Beforehand, students undertake fieldwork to explore various aspects of physical and human geography, collecting a variety of research, and relating the results to wider theory. As part of a week of day trips to diverse locations, the girls took the tube to Bushy Park Field Study Centre, where they spent a day investigating carbon content and vegetation coverage.  On Tuesday, the group road-tripped down to the south coast for a sunny day on the beach at Camber Sands, where investigations focused on sand dune succession and psammosere theory – with some ice-creams to round off the day.

Mid-week, our Geographers headed to Stratford to study regeneration, analysing changing land use patterns, followed by a day back at school, drawing on what they’d learned to come up with their own investigation titles for their coursework. At the end of a busy, students hopped back onto the minibus for a final day at the beach. Heading east to Herne Bay, they studied coastal change at a managed and unmanaged beach, involving lots of beach gradient measurements, rock pool crabbing, a sunny picnic!

Following a successful week, students will now apply their newfound skills and knowledge to structure their non-examined assessment (NEA), which accounts for 20% of the final grade in A Level Geography – we look forward to seeing where the girls’ own coursework investigations take them.