This course provides an opportunity for schools with low student numbers to tackle different fieldwork enquiries across a range of field sites.
Train station transfers are an additional £22.00 per student return.
This course price includes in-course transport, whilst at the centre.
Staff prices are half the student price plus VAT.
Due to safeguarding reasons we are unable to let adult learners attend these courses. To ensure safety all U18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult on residential courses, eg teacher or parent.
The cost of this course is VAT exempt, including in-course transport to field sites. Lunch on the first day is not included, but is on the final day. Staff are charged at half the student rate plus VAT, 1 staff member per school.
Please bring your own packed lunch for the first day. All other meals are included up to a packed lunch on the last day.
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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Mon 14, April 2025 13:00 - Wed 16, April 2025 12:00
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Mon 15, September 2025 13:00 - Wed 17, September 2025 12:00
