This course provides an opportunity for schools with low student numbers to prepare, plan and collect data for their individual Non-Exam Assessment for A Level Geography.
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.
Please bring lunch for the first day, all meals are provided from dinner on your first day to packed lunch on the final day.
Example Timetable
Day 1
Arrival from 12:00
- Check into reception.
- Luggage to be stored in a safe location until rooms are ready.
- Lunch, brought from home, can be eaten outside prior to start of course.
13:00
- Meet your tutors for your welcome tour.
- Borrow wellies and waterproofs if required.
Carbon Cycle
- Introduction to the NEA and the route of enquiry.
- Introduction to the carbon cycle and measurement on a local scale of a global system.
- Risk Assessments.
- Walk to Lodge Hill.
- Fieldwork: Field sketch of, for example, carbon stores & flows as demonstration of a qualitative method.
- Fieldwork: Discussion of and carrying out relevant techniques to determine carbon content of tree and soil biomass.
- Calculations of carbon storage in different environments.
- Time permitting, geo-location of data.
Break & bedrooms
Cake & drinks. Time to move into bedrooms.
Evening Meal
One hour break. Dinner sittings of 30 minutes allocated between 17:45 and 19:00.
Evening session
Continuation of day’s classroom follow-up.
20:00
End of taught course. Free time for students. Students to be supervised by school staff.
Day 2
- Breakfast & Packed Lunch
- Allocated sittings of 30 minutes between 07:45 and 09:00.
- Make packed lunches. Free time until morning activity starts.
09:30
Meet tutors.
Changing Place
- Introduction to place and Dorking introducing the different ways in which place can be determined.
- Using secondary research to determine questions and hypotheses setting.
- Selection of methods and sampling strategies using justifications.
- Epitome Words of Dorking (testing sense of place – what are the preconceived ideas).
- Travel to Dorking (RH4 1SG) – using 465 public service bus.
- Urban Drift and Environmental Quality Assessment
- Discussion of ethics.
- A range of techniques can be used such as: perception analysis; E.Q.A.; non-participant observation and can support later techniques such as statistical analysis and/or geo-location of data.
- Return to Juniper Hall.
- More formal review of a common method used in the day.
- Discussion of data presentation techniques.
- Introduction to statistics with a worked examples of a statistical test - Chi squared (χ2) of epitome words.
- Demonstrated outcome(s) from simple data (E.Q.A.) that is geo-located showcasing the benefits of its use, and an opportunity to discover more about the workings and applications of ArcGIS and Survey123.
Lunch & Break
Lunch will be eaten at a suitable time outside, with a cake & drinks break in the afternoon.
Evening Meal
One hour break. Dinner sittings of 30 minutes allocated between 17:45 and 19:00.
Evening session
Continuation of day’s classroom follow-up
20:00
End of taught course. Free time for students. Students to be supervised by school staff.
Day 3
- Breakfast & Packed Lunch
- Allocated sittings of 30 minutes between 07:45 and 09:00.
- Make packed lunches. Free time until morning activity starts.
09:30
Meet tutors.
NEA Planning Day
- With reference to the exam specification students are encouraged to do a literature review for complimentary material that will support their choice of topic/ location/ technique etc.
- Select a study area(s) and variables within it that will be measured.
- Transport to be organised for the data collection day once students are committed to a work location.
- Determine the methods of how each variable will be measured. Consider in advance how the subsequent data will be handled and presented. Check plans and consider the requirements for statistical follow up or presenting in ArcGIS.
- Candidate Referral Form (CRF) needs completing in the afternoon and handing to accompanying staff for comment.
- Risk Assessments to be completed by the students.
- Data collection sheets to be constructed by the students before day end.
- Equipment lists from students before day end.
Lunch & Break
Lunch will be eaten at a suitable time outside, with a cake & drinks break in the afternoon.
Evening Meal
One hour break. Dinner sittings of 30 minutes allocated between 17:45 and 19:00.
Evening session
Continuation of planning and finalising all requirements for the following day’s data collection.
20:00
End of taught course. Free time for students. Students to be supervised by school staff.
Day 4
Breakfast & Packed Lunch
- Allocated sittings of 30 minutes between 07:45 and 09:00.
- Make packed lunches. Free time until morning activity starts.
09:30
Meet tutors.
NEA Data Collection
- Candidate Referral Forms (CRFs), data collection sheets and equipment list must be provided/collated.
- One member of school staff to be at each data collection location and the FSC tutor will accompany the students offsite to work under our ‘Groups Under Remote Supervision’ (GURS) procedure.
- It is advised that the students spend at least one full day collecting data.
- When all outdoor work is finished the tutor will be available to guide students through the next stages which are typically writing contemporary fieldnotes, data entry and beginning of data presentation.
Lunch & Break
Lunch will be eaten at a suitable time outside, with a cake & drinks break in the afternoon.
Evening Meal
One hour break. Dinner sittings of 30 minutes allocated between 17:45 and 19:00.
Evening Session
Continuation of data collation and presentation.
20:00
End of taught course. Free time for students. Students to be supervised by school staff.
Day 5
Before Breakfast
Stripping beds of bedlinen. Pack bags.
Breakfast & Packed Lunch
- Allocated sittings of 30 minutes between 07:45 and 09:00.
- Make packed lunches.
After Breakfast
- Move luggage out of bedrooms to secure storage area.
- Free time until morning activity starts.
09:30
Meet tutors.
Follow-up
- Assistance in choosing and doing statistical tests on data collected.
- Assistance in geo-locating data where required.
- Demonstrating the use of ArcGIS as a means to present data.
- Wrap-up of week.
12:00
End of course and departure.
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
This course is not currently available to book. Dates will follow soon.
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