Focus on the Geography

Focus on the Geography introduces photography within the Geography Curriculum at Key Stage 2 and 3, encouraging pupils to analyse information both spatially and visually, as well as engaging with, and discovering some key concepts in Geography.

Saltmarsh Protected

Part of Bideford Saltmarsh known as Kynoch Foreshore is now a designated Local Nature Reserve. It is one of the most significant salt marshes for wildlife in the Taw Torridge Estuary, and is regularly studied by Skern Lodge students. Whilst it lies outside the SSSi boundary, designation as an LNR should afford it some protection for the future.

JOHN MUIR AWARD AT SKERN LODGE

Skern Lodge is now pleased to be able to provide John Muir Award for 2012, the award is at the Discovery Level and is available and adaptable to a variety of different groups. We will be adding a John Muir section to our website but in the meantime please call or e-mail us for further details.

The GA annual Conference 2012

This year Skern Lodge will be attending the annual Geographical Association conference at the University of Manchester.This was a great event for us last year and we are looking forward to it immensely. If you are around and about, find our staff at the exhibition and have a chat to us.

A Level in a nutshell

Whether you are looking to enhance your students geography field work techniques for their skills papers, or to cover specific topics, Skern Lodge Field Studies Centre can offer the ideal course for you.

Experienced staff lead the courses with the content tailored to the individual group and syllabus requirements.

Our North Devon locations offer exceptional fieldwork sites for the study of:

Physical Geography	Human Geography
Hydrology - characteristics and flood management	Rural and urban settlements
Coastal zone processes and geomorphology	Rebranding and rural diversification
Sand dunes - succession and management	Crowded coasts
Salt marsh ecosystems
Rocky shore

Our aim is simple; our field studies programmes are designed to allow students to learn and practice fieldwork techniques and to enhance their subject knowledge through first hand experiences linked to established case studies. Whether your class study AQA, OCR, EDEXCEL, WJEC, or the International Baccalaureate just to name a few, we have a wide range of topics available that can be designed and adapted around your syllabus requirements.

‘As a 'frist timer' accompanying a Year 12
Goegraphy group, Skern Lodge has
exceeded expectations'
John Mason School 2011

To make your trip unique you could reward the group for their field studies work completed at school or focus on some teambuilding by including an outdoor activity session in programme.

Our tutors can deliver all aspects of the course and support students through their enquiries as they develop their own hypotheses and strategies for enquiry.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL COURSES REQUIRE PRE-BOOKING

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