Warbler May 2019

HUMANITIES
Wilnecote Warbler
May 2019
GEOGRAPHY FIELD TRIP
On 2nd, 3rd, 16th and 17th of May, the Geography department took 85 students out of
school to undertake some fieldwork required for them to complete their GCSE Paper 3:
Geographical Application exam in the Summer of 2020.
As part of the Human Geography element, we took them to Birmingham City Centre. Here
the students had to work in small groups and visit 5 different sites to complete a pedestrian
count, a traffic survey, a quality of environment survey and annotate some photographs of
each of the areas. The aim of this piece of fieldwork was to see how the regeneration of areas
in Birmingham City Centre is affecting Birmingham’s quality of the environment.
Students collected the data required for the Physical element of the exam from Carding Mill
Valley in Shropshire. Here the students worked in small groups again to measure and calculate
the velocity of the river at 3 different sites along its course. Students also did some random
load sampling, measuring the ‘a’ and ‘b axis’ and identifying the class of the load. The aim
of this piece of fieldwork was to see how closely the river Ashbrook matches the Bradshaw
model.
The students worked well collecting their data. We are now analysing the data in school to
enable us to conclude whether our hypotheses we made before the visits were correct or not.
The conclusions they make and the techniques they used whilst they were out in the field will
assist them in their examination.
Thank you to all the staff that took part, the parents for preparing their son/daughter with
wellies and packed lunches and the students for getting so involved - another great set of
trips that will hopefully serve as a lasting memory.
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