A Day of Coastal Investigations for Geographers

On a beautiful sunny May morning, 80 GCSE geography pupils headed to the south coast for a day of coastal investigations. Comparing beach management techniques and coastal processes at Cuckmere and Seaford, the pupils collected a range of data and learnt to use various pieces of fieldwork equipment such as clinometers and ranging poles for measuring beach profiles and quadrats for sediment size. The pupils worked effectively in their groups and even the disappointment of the ice cream shop at Seaford being closed didn’t put a dampener on a successful day out in the field.