Ms March (Head of Geography)

On Sunday 19th June, our Year 10 geography students embarked on fieldwork residential to the beautiful Deep History Coast Sheringham, North Norfolk.

The three-day, two-night trip allowed the students to see at first hand different coastal features, the effects of coastal management and the effects of coastal deposition along the North Norfolk coastline, the formation of sand dunes, the impacts of cliff collapse as well as studying the changing human geography of a coastal town.

Izzy Cochrane (Year 10) reflected: “It was a great experience going to Sheringham. It gave us not only the chance to improve our geographical understanding and practice our fieldwork skills but also to eat lots of ice cream. It was really refreshing to finally go on a trip after the past few years and we were greeted with glorious weather.

“We spent the first day walking through Sheringham doing traffic counts, land use and environmental surveys. On the next day we walked down the coast looking at flood defences and coastal management strategies. On this day we also measured the beach’s long profile and longshore drift. On the final day, we went to Holkham and looked at the many sand dunes and depositional landforms on the coast. This was a really fun and insightful experience.”

View photos here.