October was “Geography fieldwork month” in St.Alban’s. Fieldwork is where you go outside the classroom and find things out for yourself. Over the last month, our students have had the opportunity to explore the local area and learn in a more practical, hands-on way in geography.

Each class was given a different enquiry question that they had to try and answer using a variety of progressive fieldwork skills. Children across school completed maps, surveys, time sampling, tallys, pictograms and digital mapping linked to their enquiry question. Children then used the information that they had gathered to draw their own conclusions. Many years groups were able to compare results with the data collected last year and carefully considered possible reasons for any changes.

Yesterday, each class had the opportunity to present their findings to the rest of the school. Children were very adept at explaining what they did and what they found out. I will post again with pictures from each classes fieldwork tasks once I have collected these from staff members. Well done St.Alban’s- we are all geographers!