Year 10 Geography students enjoy the Welsh weather

Last week Year 10 Geography students travelled to North Wales for a three night residential fieldtrip. The girls escaped the unseasonable downpours and lightning strikes plaguing Cambridge and on the first day spent a delightful afternoon in glorious sunshine, studying the features of glaciated landscapes and management strategies in a national park. The students also spent time studying the River Conway - following it from source to mouth – analysing the redevelopment of the waterfront in Conway against the ‘rejuvenation’ stage of Butler’s Model (a Geographical model used to look at the way a tourist resort grows and develops over time) and had a day in Betws-y-Coed, a small village in Snowdonia, collecting data on the impact of tourism. The girls had a great time in North Wales and were pleasantly surprised by the warm sunshine!