Students will carry out fieldwork to investigate how and why drainage basin and channel characteristics influence flood risk for people and property along the river.
A qualitative fieldwork method to collect data on factors that may influence flood risk e.g. annotated photographs, field sketches or flood risk assessment. A quantitative fieldwork method to investigate drainage basin characteristics including gradient profile and run off rates. Secondary data courses will be provided on land cover, hydrogeology and flood risk for the river catchment. Students will have an opportunity to develop a question(s) based on their location and the task.
Small Group or Individual Student Days are designed to bring together individual students, home educated students, schools with small cohorts, or students who were unable to attend a residential or alternative trip. By bringing groups together you do not have to pay for a minimum number of students.
These courses are for groups of 9 or fewer students from any one school.
To ensure the safety of all participants on our day and residential small groups courses, any child, or group of children from an individual school or home-education group, aged under 18 years must be accompanied by a responsible adult, eg teacher or parent. Other adult learners eg mature students or those who have recently turned 18 are welcome to join the course.
Example Timetable
This course usually runs from 9.30am – 3.30pm, but times can be adjusted to suit your group and travel plans.
During your visit you will be welcome to the centre and given an appropriate health and safety briefing.
Your session will start with an introduction to the day, aims and objectives. Throughout the day we will undertake fieldwork, collecting data appropriate to the topic. We will break for lunch, before continuing with our fieldwork. Depending on the day and the specific times of your visit we may include some data presentation and analysis and we will end the day with a summary including drawing conclusions and limitations.
Please note that specific activities for your group are subject to change. We go out in all weathers and seasons and will tailor the content of the day accordingly.
What's Included
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Expert Tuition
Opportunities to attend this course
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Thu 24, September 2026 09:30 - 15:30
This course covers the specification for AQA/Edexel A and OCR in Birmingham
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Mon 19, October 2026 09:30 - 16:00
This course takes place at Bishops Wood FIeld Centre
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Tue 20, October 2026 09:30 - 15:30
This course covers the specification for AQA/Edexel A and OCR at Amersham
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Thu 12, November 2026 09:30 - 15:30
This course covers the specification for AQA/Edexel A and OCR at Amersham Field Centre
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Wed 25, November 2026 09:30 - 15:30
This course covers the specification for AQA/Edexel A and OCR in Birmingham