Over the last term, students across all year groups have been investigating our ever-changing, dynamic world, and thinking like Geographers.
Students in Year 13 have been undertaking Individual Investigations into issues ranging from footpath erosion, the impacts of retailing in Gloucester Quays and the environmental quality of Cardiff Bay. It's a challenging time for our senior students, many of whom are preparing to study human and physical Geography at University.
Year 12 will also be undertaking visits this term to explore coastal processes in South Wales and the urban challenges of a changing city landscape in Cardiff. Year 11 have been working very hard on their NEAs, writing up and submitting the work to the exam board they undertook last summer in Porthcawl and Bristol in the Autumn term. All of the Geographers spent a sunny day exploring Rest Bay and Porthcawl, collecting data to decide whether or not three different locations required further coastal defences. In Bristol we investigated retail inequalities and the impact this has on the environmental quality of Broadmead and Cabot Circus. All students then had to process, analyse, and draw conclusions from their data, before evaluating their methodologies and presentation techniques. This year we even considered emoji mapping!
All of our students have worked really hard on their fieldwork submissions so far this term. Fieldwork really helps to bring Geography to life and, importantly, equips students with the ability to investigate their world.
The pandemic has really disrupted our opportunities to be able to get out and study our region safely, hopefully this year we can build on our fieldwork experiences for our students to help them see the world like a Geographer. More adventures to come in 2023 from MCS Geography!
