This course provides an opportunity for schools with low student numbers to prepare and plan for their individual Non-Exam Assessment for A Level Geography.
Rhyd-y-Creuau is a popular activity centre in North Wales, based in a beautifully restored Georgian country house from the early 1800s. Located in the heart of Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park, the centre provides direct access to some of the UK’s most breathtaking natural landscapes, surrounded by cascading rivers, wooded hillsides, and glaciated valleys, From rocky coastal shores to upland ecosystems, the local environment supports a wide range of curriculum-linked studies.
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.
The price of the course includes
- Accommodation in shared rooms (single rooms for adults where available but cannot be guaranteed
- Food from dinner on day 1 to packed lunch on day 3
- In-course transport to fieldwork sites during the course
- All course teaching
- Equipment, wellies and waterproofs if required.
- Accompanying staff and adults are charged at half the student rate plus VAT.
Example Timetable
Day 1
The Carbon Cycle
Learners will engage in landscape-scale carbon experiments in the wooded lowlands of the Conwy valley, investigating the impact that land use has on carbon sequestration rates.
Through the use of soil experiments, biomass estimation and use of ArcGIS students will estimate carbon content in deciduous woodland. This data will then be analysed using Mann Whitney U, before upscaling the data using ArcGIS Online to consider carbon stores on a catchment scale.
This work will connect the learners thinking with the role of anthropogenic induced carbon imbalance as a key component of current and future climate change, and carbon sequestration as a form of climate change mitigation.
Day 2
Coastal Systems: Landscape, Processes and Management
Students will investigate possible enquiries at Criccieth on the Llyn Peninsula. Students will interrogate the coastal landscape collaboratively exploring possible inquiry themes and options.
The processes operating within this system will be explored through data collection techniques such as beach profiling and sediment analysis. Students will analyse and try methods to evaluate the current coastal defences and management strategies found in Criccieth using techniques such as cost-benefit analysis, bi-polar analysis, Hudson’s equation and flood risk severity mapping.
Finally, the town will be explored with students gaining insight into a range of methods to collect data on how the town has been affected by the implementation of the Shoreline Management Plan.
Day 3
Knowing and Understanding Places
In this session, the local village of Betws y Coed will be explored to build an understanding of the concept of place. Learners will compare the role of direct experience with others representations of the place.
Using qualitative data collection techniques, students will gather information on how Betws y Coed is represented and communicated to people and how this shapes their perceptions. Learners will develop skills to analyse the data with methods of textual and image analysis.
What's Included
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Expert Tuition -
Free Wi-Fi -
Full Board Accommodation -
Hot and Cold Drinks -
In Course Transport -
Picnic Lunch
Opportunities to attend this course
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Fri 11, September 2026 13:00 - Sun 13, September 2026 12:00
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Fri 10, September 2027 13:00 - Sun 12, September 2027 12:00
