Whether it’s exploring a local coastline or museum, visiting Cadbury World, or doing data-collection in North Wales, geography students have had plenty of opportunities to carry out fieldwork in 2022–23.
Fieldwork is a key component of geography – observing and collecting data about the human and physical world around us. Students use this primary data to test hypotheses.
Earlier in the year, students in year 8 visited the Eureka! Science + Discovery museum in Wallasey to explore – among other things – energy use and how energy can be created using renewable methods.
Year 9 students, meanwhile, were at Cadbury World (to support their work on transnational corporations) in Bournville, Birmingham in March to look round a working factory and find out more about the history and heritage of this iconic brand.
Next it was the turn of year 7 students. They visited Crosby beach on our Charter Day in June, investigating coastal processes and beach nourishment along the Sefton coastline, as well as checking out the iconic Anthony Gormley ‘Another Place’ installation.
And year 10 geographers were back in North Wales in July to complete further fieldwork for their GCSE course. In March they had been in Betws-y-Coed. This time they visited Erddig near Wrexham conducting an investigation along the River Clywedog. GCSE students are required to write about the fieldwork they have done in their exam.
