Dedication to the core

No rest for the wicked!

First meeting of the infamous groyne.

Our final stop on the Holderness coast- the famous groynes at Mappleton.

Flamborough Head

Butterfly whisperer

Last day at Cranedale

Working hard on Sunday night

Its 8pm and the yr 13s are still working hard- drawing up their data from their sand dune transect in a series of kite diagrams and drawn- to- scale profiles. They are about to start analysing their data using Spearman's Rank which they are very excited about! Although I think we will finish in time for I'm a Celebrity!

Fun times.

Spears and measures

Absareena measuring the soil compaction

Vegetation coverage

Absareena and Joel

Group photo

Evidence of human interference

Bridlington South Sands

Looking south to Holderness

Looking north to Flamborough Head

Who's that girl?

Soil skewers

Jessica and Natalie measuring soil compaction.

Sickly green?

Georgia!!

Hannah!!

Here's looking at you kid?

A day by the coast

Today is sand dunes study on Bridlington South Sands. Cloudy but no rain and it's not cold!

The pupils completing some initial observations.

Future surveyor?

Still working hard learning about statistical analysis

Share your geographical knowledge Kayley

We used a pH meter and a conductivity meter by filling a beaker of water from the river. We then took a reading at each sure to compare the differences between site one and site three. -Kayley :)

Angular or not angular? That is the question.

Megan and Gabriella measuring the mean pebble size and angularity using the Powers scale of roundness.

Field sketch

Pupils complete a field sketch of the "best meander they will ever see"

Megan's wellington vs mud

Megan realises her boot is stuck ...

Natalie offers Megan a helping hand ...

Joel's antics

Joel pouring water out of his wellies after his spectacular meeting with the river bed!

Despite falling in he was still in fantastic spirits and enjoying his fieldwork!

Measuring channel variations at Helwath Beck

Hannah and Kayley measuring mean pebble size and depth of the river.

Measuring the pebbles was cold! At the end of the day we put the mean pebble sizes from all the sites onto a graph to find a pattern. As we expected pebble size reduced further down the river.

Hannah :)

Absareena using a turbidity tube to measure suspended load.

Rivers on the North York Moors

I have learnt some vital skills and have also enjoyed the beautiful sights and scenery - Gabriella

We visited helwath beck and downstream to jugger beck where we measured such things as sediment size and the velocity of the river at given points - Georgia

More drama!

Finally got going after 2.5 hrs sat on the M11 to have the windscreen chipped- Mr S is saving the day by getting it fixed. More to follow from the students tonight!

Setting off!

Well we are on our way to Yorkshire! However we are stuck on the M11 and have been for 2 hours.. Oh well! Mr S is entertaining us with lots of singing 😃