Jurassic Geography

The Year 12 geographers were away at the start of this week for two nights on their residential fieldtrip studying Dorset’s Jurassic coastline. On our way south, we stopped to examine the rather strange and contrived settlement of Poundbury before travelling the length of Chesil Beach from the towering cliffs at West Bay to the Isle of Portland.

Monday was spent intensively studying the sand dunes at Studland, several students collecting data for their A-level projects. On the final day, we went coasteering at Lulworth Cove and were able to get closer to the rocks and landforms we had earlier studied in the classroom than would have been possible from the shore. A few of our students impressively conquered their nerves to take part in some cliff jumping too.

Mr P Amor, Head of Geography