Year 10 Geography students go on field trip to Wales

Year 10 had a great time at the Field Study Council's field centre in North Wales. They spent a day measuring downstream changes in the river Conway - collecting data on width, depth, velocity and calculating changes in volume and discharge. The weather was glorious and fieldwork ended with us all sitting in the shade enjoying a well-earned ice cream!

The urban fieldwork day was colder, but fortunately stayed dry for an investigation in the former slate-mining town of Llanberis. The title of the fieldwork - which will form part of the GCSE fieldwork and skills paper - was "How is Llanberis moving to a post-industrial economy?" The answer is by developing tourism and branding Llanberis as the adventure, heritage, food and drink and industrial capital of North Wales. After a day spent collecting data and making clips of the methodologies on ipads, we spent the evenings writing -up and enjoying the beautiful setting of the centre, and its excellent locally grown food! The final day was spent at a windfarm, developing a better understanding of the benefits and problems this renewable form of energy brings.