GEOGRAPHY TRIP

Last term forty year 11  students ventured deep into the  forest to complete their geography field work. The signs did not look good, it had poured with rain all night, and was still raining as we left. Everyone was concerned: would it be too wet? would the river be flooded? would there be enough wellies?! Our intrepid bunch headed north of London to the Epping Forest. Once there they started in the classroom revising some key river knowledge, we then went out onto the hill and had a look at some mud - some people though were too scared to touch the mud (mentioning no names JRS and BG). After lunch the real fun started, we went to Debden Brook, a nearby river. When we were there we measured things like the speed of the river, its depth and width, we even picked up rocks from the river bed and measured them! Luckily, no one fell in the river but there were some wet feet when wellies flooded. Over all, the day was a great success we all had fun and we collected all the data we need to complete our controlled assessments which go towards our Geography GCSE.... Now the hard work starts - writing it up!

Special thanks need to be given to members of the Rotary Club of Crowthorne and Sandhurst who donated wellies so we could all go in the river!

Miss Huckstep