
Field Studies Council is a leading provider of geography fieldwork.
The geography fieldwork courses at our UK centres are tailored to curriculum requirements for GCSE, A Level, National, Higher, IB and lower secondary specifications and packed with relevant fieldwork content.
Our expert tutors create and deliver geography experiences to suit your requirements.
Environments at our centres
Our residential trips can include a selection of environments to suit your requirements.
14-16:
Coastal
Where the land meets the sea, the UK’s coastline is over 7500 miles in length, and it’s a place that’s always changing through erosion, transportation and deposition. Coastlines are influenced by many physical and human forces, with dramatic consequences for the people who live there.
Rivers
Constantly changing, water levels rise and fall after rain and with the seasons. Erosion, transportation and deposition can all alter the characteristics of the channel and the regime of the river
Urban
Towns and cities have experienced dramatic changes in the last 30 years, including pressures from out of town shops, economic challenges, changing function and the decline of the high street.
Rural
Areas which have experienced dramatic changes in the last 30 years, including counter-urbanisation, changing farm practices and the decline of rural services.
Glaciation
Although the UK’s last glaciers disappeared around 10,000 years ago, the post-glacial landscape of the UK still provide plenty of evidence for the action of estimating ice and meltwater in both the uplands and lowlands.
16-18:
Coastal
Where the land meets the sea, the UK’s coastline is over 7500 miles in length, and it’s a place that’s always changing through erosion, transportation and deposition. Coastlines are influenced by many physical and human forces, with dramatic consequences for the people who live there.
Inequalities
Students will study a place, local to the centre, that demonstrates one of the major consequences of ongoing urban or rural processes: inequalities. Social, economic or environmental inequalities are suffered by different members of our communities as a result of complex geographies shaping our places. Students will explore where and why this happens and consider how it is being sustainably managed.
Regeneration
Regeneration is a complex process aiming to turn areas into sustainable, desirable and effective spaces for us to use and enjoy. Here you can expect students to explore a site, local to the centre, that has undergone regeneration or is in need of the process and consider the interlinked geographies that shape that place’s regeneration journey.
Place
Changing socio-economic and demographic characteristics of local places, plus the cultural meanings and representations attached to different places.
Water and Carbon
Size of stores and flows in the water and carbon cycles at a local scale, such as small drainage basin, woodland or peat bog.
Glaciation
Although the UK’s last glaciers disappeared around 10,000 years ago, the post-glacial landscape of the UK still provide plenty of evidence for the action of estimating ice and meltwater in both the uplands and lowlands.
Investigations
At a local scale to consider place meaning and representation changing economic function and socio-demographic characteristics of places.
A personalised approach
- Courses link specifically to the curriculum and content can be tailored to suit your requirements
- A qualified tutor is assigned to each trip, to oversee your visit and create a bespoke friendly atmosphere
- Choice of UK centres so you can pick the best location for your school trip
- Accommodation on residential trips is in comfortable centres of up to 150 beds, allowing us to offer a personalised service
- All food is provided on school residential trips and many course activities are based on site
Tried and trusted provider
- We have 75 years’ experience delivering secondary school trips
- Each year, 165,000 people visit FSC centres
- Our sites are all risk assessed and we are continually working to meet the latest government guidelines for Covid 19 safety
- All our centres have the Learning Outside the Classroom’s Quality Badge so there is less paperwork for you
- Outdoor learning with FSC helps deliver a broad and balanced curriculum as required by Ofsted
