GEOGRAPHY FIELD TRIPS

Fieldwork provides hands-on, real-world experience to consolidate classroom learning and focus on the relationships between people, places and environments.

In line with the GCSE curriculum, our GCSE Geography field trips will provide students with the chance to conduct a geographical enquiry outside the classroom and beyond school grounds. Students will be able to formulate a hypothesis and use a local town study and a coastal/river study to collect primary and secondary data, collect quantitative and qualitative data using appropriate methods, present and analyse their findings, and draw evidence-based conclusions that link to geographical theories and concepts.

A Level Geography requires at least four days of fieldwork that must include both physical and human geography processes, which is confirmed by the school’s fieldwork statement. Students must also design an independent investigation, analyse data using appropriate techniques and draw conclusions linked to their original aims and objectives.

Our A Level Geography fieldwork trips can be tailored to fit these needs, including local coastal/river studies plus access to beaches displaying examples of coastal management, and town tourism studies. We can schedule a range of activities such as river surveys, coastal profiling, microclimate studies, slope analysis, soil-sampling, land-use mapping, environmental quality surveys, urban change studies, and primary data collection in the field through questionnaires and interviews, plus secondary data collection including Ordnance Survey maps or GIS layers.

We will provide students with time in their itinerary to write up results and plan their investigations. Study space for this, along with Wi-Fi access, will be provided within the group’s hotel at the end of the day’s activities.