10/05/16 |Trip to Walton-on-the-Naze
Shariah tells us about the Year 10 Geography trip to the small beachside town in Essex
By Shariah Kellar-Inniss
Last week Year 10 students went to Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.
Walton-on-the-Naze has been an important area for thousands of years, with land uses dating back to Roman times around 55BC. On our trip we carried out many investigations in order to complete our coursework.
We were all put in to groups of four or five within your classes and we had to carry out three different investigations which took place in the managed and unmanaged zones at Walton-on-the-Naze.
In my opinion the best part of the day was when we had to carry out the investigations because it was different way of learning and understanding things within geography.
Our first investigation was to see how fast water infiltrated in to the ground in the managed and unmanaged area. Secondly, we investigated beach profiles will be steeper in the managed zone than the unmanaged zone. Lastly we studied how sediment size will increase with distance as you travel from south to north between groynes.
The day was really interesting and enjoyable and I would recommend other students to visit the study site including students above and below year 10s, as well as anyone who does not do geography as a GCSE subject.