Year 10 Geography field trip

On Sunday 14 May our Year 10 Geography students embarked on a four day field trip to Wales. On Sunday the weather was glorious and the group sat by Llyn Idwal, comparing upland and lowland landscapes and considering how geology, climate and human activity influence the landscape and processes such as weathering. They then spent three days with Field Studies Council staff completing fieldwork for OCR specification A. This involved a river study, investigating downstream changes in width, depth, velocity, discharge, load shape and load size. On Tuesday the girls investigated the extent to which Llanberis had recovered from economic decline caused by closure in 1969 of its slate quarry with the loss of 3000 jobs. A visit to the Dinorwic pumped storage HEP scheme and a trip up to Ail Gynt wind farm before their return to Cambridge rounded off a successful trip.