A LEVEL GEOGRAPHY AND L3 TOURISM DIPLOMA TRIP TO BRIGHTON...
On Tuesday 9th May the Year 12 Geography and Tourism students visited Brighton to complete fieldwork, with the aim to practice for their upcoming NEAs (Non-Examined Assessments).
The day started off with some slightly miserable weather, but this didn’t dampen our excitement! On arrival, we had a classic Brighton welcome, with a well-aimed seagull dropping on and on the bus. We were eager to get started on our fieldwork investigation and get far away from the greatly-criticised bus seats. After a quick brief from Miss Slater on how to use the equipment, we were set free onto Brighton Beach to start our investigations.
We had great fun investigating beach profile, groyne drop height, sediment analysis, and longshore drift. This was despite being faced with challenges such as walking a long way to take samples at groynes and having an opportunistic seagull steal the apple for our longshore drift investigation! By this point the sun had come out, so we were all still in high spirits for our clone town and retail surveys in The Lanes.
After a well-deserved lunch, it was time to go on the Brighton i360 tower, which was meant to give us a clear 360Ëšview of the city. Unfortunately, the clouds had once again descended in perfect time for their ride on the giant glass pod so the supposedly stunning view of Brighton was slightly obscured! Finally, it was time to head back to the Travelodge, where we had some free time to explore and get some dinner.
In the morning we headed back out into the Churchill square shopping centre to continue our human geography investigations (and build their own Lego mini figures along the way!). Thankfully, the sun was out all day for their visit to Brighton Dome, North Laine and to compare two contrasting residential areas. Assessing housing quality, pedestrian and traffic counts, car age surveys, and testing out our ArcGIS surveys. We had a quick visit to look at regeneration in Brighton Marina before a 2-hour bus journey saw us back at school and ready to go home. Thank you to all our fellow Year 12 students for working well together, the teachers for letting us out of school, especially so near to our exams, and Miss Slater and Mr Bessant for supporting us on the trip.
Article written by Olivia Tubb and Charlotte Whinton-Brown (Year 12 Geography students)
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