Year 8 Geography Trip to Etretat
Year 8, Mrs Reed, Mrs Titley, Mr Guinet, Mrs Tomlinson, Mrs Crompton, and Mr Morrison took a break in their busy September schedules to visit the seaside at Étretat on the Normandy coastline. Equipped with quadrats, clinometers, tape measures, rulers, pencils, ranging poles, the much-beloved callipers, compasses, rulers and a sense of adventure (and humour), their task was to investigate how human activities and physical processes shaped Étretat. On arrival they scattered; some lurched up La Falaise d’Amont to take a field sketch and record footpath erosion, others took a beach transect while they waited for the apple from their packed-lunch to bob up and down in the surf long enough to show how much distance it could travel along the beach due to Longshore Drift, the rest got their helmets on to walk along the wave-cut platform, explore caves and apply trigonometry to calculating the height of the cliffs approaching the famous Porte d’Aval. After a hard day’s work, sugar-levels were swiftly replenished with a tasty ice-cream. Same again next year we hope!
